Physics & Philosophy BSc

at King's College London

Year 1

Required modules

In your first year you will take 75 credits in Physics and 45 credits in Philosophy.

Physics
 

• Mathematics & Computation for Physics (30 credits)

• Classical Physics (30 credits)

• Introduction to Modern Physics (15 credits)

• Philosophy

You are required to take 30 credits, one from each of the following groups:

Group A:
 

• Elementary Logic (15 credits)

• Methodology (15 credits)

Group B:
 

• Metaphysics I (15 credits)

• Epistemology I (15 credits)

Optional modules

Philosophy

In addition, you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:
 

• Greek Philosophy I (15 credits)

• Ethics I (15 credits)

• Modern Philosophy I (15 credits)

• Political Philosophy I (15 credits)

Any of the required philosophy modules listed above.

Year 2

Required modules

In your second year you will take 75 credits in Physics and 60 credits in Philosophy.

Physics:
 

• Mathematical Methods for Physics (15 credits)

• Thermal Physics & Properties of Matter (15 credits)

• Quantum Mechanics I (15 credits)

• Electromagnetism (15 credits)

• Relativity & Sub-atomic Physics (15 credits)

Philosophy:
 

• Philosophy of Physics I: Space & Time (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Science (15 credits)

Optional modules

There are no optional Physics modules in your second year. In Philosophy, you are required to take 30 credits taken from at least two of the following groups which offer a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

Group A:
 

• Greek Philosophy II: Plato (15 credits)

• Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle (15 credits)

• Modern Philosophy II: Locke & Berkeley (15 credits)

• Modern Philosophy II: Spinoza & Leibniz (15 credits)

Group B:
 

• Ethics II: History of Ethical Philosophy (15 credits)

• Ethics II: Contemporary Ethical Philosophy (15 credits)

• Political Philosophy II: History of Political Philosophy (15 credits)

• Topics in Applied Ethics and Politics (15 credits)

Group C:
 

• Epistemology II (15 credits)

• Metaphysics II (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Language (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Mind (15 credits)

• Intermediate Logic (15 credits)

Year 3

Required modules

You are required to do the following modules
 

• Statistical Mechanics (15 credits)

• Quantum Mechanics II (15 credits)

• Third Year Project in Physics (15 credits)

Optional modules

Physics

You are required to take up to a maximum of 30 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:
 

• Advanced Mathematical Methods for Theoretical Physics (15 credits)

• Fundamentals of Nanotechnology (15 credits)

• General Relativity & Cosmology (15 credits)

• Optics (15 credits)

• Condensed Matter Physics I (15 credits)

• Particle Physics (15 credits)

Philosophy

In addition, you are required to take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120, from a range of optional Philosophy modules.

If you take 45 philosophy credits, you must select at least 30 credits from the range of Level 6 (Year 3) optional modules.

If you are taking 60 to 75 philosophy credits, you must select at least 45 credits from the Level 6 (Year 3) optional modules. You may select your remaining credits from either Level 6 (Year 3) or Level 5 (Year 2) optional modules. The range of optional Level 6 modules may typically include:
 

• Dissertation

• Philosophy of Physics II: Quantum Mechanics (15credits)

• Indian Philosophy: The Heterodox Schools (15 credits)

• Indian Philosophy: The Orthodox Schools (15 credits)

• Kant’s Epistemology & Metaphysics (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Mathematics (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Psychology (15 credits)

• Set Theory (15 credits)

• 19th Century Continental Philosophy (15 credits)

• Aesthetics (15 credits)

• Topics in Greek Philosophy (15 credits)

• Topics in Modern Philosophy (15 credits)

• Topics in Political Philosophy (15 credits)

• Medieval Philosophy (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Religion (15 credits)

• Ethics & Politics of Science & Technology (15 credits)

• Modal Logic (15 credits)

• Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Mind (15 credits)

• Gender & Philosophy (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Race (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Psychology II (15 credits)

• Topics in Metaphysics (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Biology (15 credits)

• First-Order Logic (15 credits)

• Utilitarianism (15 credits)

• Neoplatonism (15 credits)

• Morality & Convention (15 credits)

• Mathematical Logic: Limitative Results (15 credits)

For the list of Level 5 optional modules, see Year 2. The groups do not apply in your final year.