Physics & Philosophy MSci

at King's College London

Program structure

In your first year you will take 75 credits in Physics and 45 credits in Philosophy. In Physics, you are required to take:

• Mathematics & Computation for Physics (30 credits)

• Classical Physics (30 credits)

• Introduction to Modern Physics (15 credits)

 

In 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 (15 credits)

• Epistemology I (15 credits)

 

Optional modules

In Philosophy, 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)

 

 

In your second year you will take 75 credits in Physics and 60 credits in Philosophy. In Physics, you are required to take:

 

• 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 You are required to take:

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

• Philosophy of Science (15 credits)

 

In addition, 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: Aristotle (15 credits)

• Greek Philosophy II: Plato (15 credits)

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

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

 

Group B:

• Ethics II: Contemporary Ethical Philosophy (15 credits)

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

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

• Topics in Applied Ethics & Politics (15 credits)

 

Group C:

• Epistemology II (15 credits)

• Metaphysics II (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Logic & Language (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Mind (15 credits)

• Intermediate Logic (15 credits)

 

Optional modules

There are no optional Physics or Philosophy modules in your second year.

 

Year 3

In Physics, you are required to take:

• Statistical Mechanics (15 credits)

• Quantum Mechanics II (15 credits)

• Third Year Project in Physics (15 credits)

 

Optional modules

In 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)

 

In Philosophy, 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 (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Mathematics (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Psychology I (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Religion (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Race (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Psychology II (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Biology (15 credits)

• Hellenistic Philosophy (15 credits)

• Indian Philosophy: The Heterodox Schools (15 credits)

• Indian Philosophy: The Orthodox Schools (15 credits)

• Kant’s Epistemology & Metaphysics (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)

• Topics in the Philosophy of Mind (15 credits)

• Topics in Metaphysics (15 credits)

• Medieval Philosophy (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Religion (15 credits)

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

• Modal Logic (15 credits)

• Gender & Philosophy (15 credits)

• First-Order Logic (15 credits)

• Utilitarianism (15 credits)

• Neoplatonism (15 credits)

• Morality & Convention (15 credits)

• Mathematical Logic: Limitative Results (15 credits)

 

Year 4

You are required to do the following modules

• Physics Project (30 credits)

 

There are no required modules for Philosophy in your fourth year. Please note: if you didn’t take the Philosophy Dissertation module in your third year you have to complete dissertation in your fourth year.

 

Optional modules

In Physics you are required to take up to a maximum of 60 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

• Photonics & Metamaterials (15 credits)

• Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter (15 credits)

• Bio & Nanomaterials in the Virtual Lab (15 credits)

• Standard Model Physics & Beyond (15 credits)

• Condensed Matter Physics II (15 credits)

• Modelling Quantum Many-body Systems (15 credits)

• Dark Matter & Dark Energy (15 credits)

• Scientific Communications (15 credits)

 

Modules available at other University of London institutions as part of the intercollegiate system.

Philosophy:

• Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (20 credits)

• Kant I: Critique of Pure Reason (15 credits)

• Kant II: Moral Philosophy (15 credits)

• Mathematical Logic: Limitative Results (20 credits)

• Morality and Convention (20 credits)

• Medieval Philosophy (20 credits)

• Metaphysics (20 credits)

• Philosophy, Literature and Method (20 credits)

• 19th Century Continental Philosophy (20 credits)

• 20th Century Continental Philosophy (20 credits)

• Perspectives on Death & Killing (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Mathematics (20 credits)

• Philosophy of Biology (20 credits)

• Philosophy of Medicine (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Language (20 credits)

• Philosophy of Mind (20 credits)

• Philosophy of Mind II: Special Topics (15 credits)

• Philosophy of Psychology I (20 credits)

• Philosophy of Psychology II (20 credits)

• Philosophy of Religion (20 credits)

• Political Philosophy (20 credits)

• The Concept of Mental Disorder (15 credits)

• The Philosophy of the Vienna Circle (20 credits)