BA (Linguistics and Philosophy)

The Department of Linguistics offers, in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy, a major in Linguistics and Philosophy. The syllabus is as follows:

    First Year:
  • Linguistics:
  • Philosophy:
    • PHIL1001 Knowledge of the World: An Introduction to Philosophy
      or
    • PHIL1002 The Human Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy
      or
    • PHIL1003 Ethics and Society: An Introduction to Philosophy
      or
    • PHIL1004 Chinese and Western Thought: An Introduction to Philosophy
    Second and Third Years (eight courses):
  • Linguistics:
  • Philosophy:
    • PHIL2610 Philosophy of Language

      and any three of:
    • PHIL2060 Wittgenstein
    • PHIL2075 The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction
    • PHIL2110 Knowledge
    • PHIL2120 Topics in Analytic Philosophy
    • PHIL2220 The Mind

    • PHIL2230 Philosophy and Cognitive Science
    • PHIL2250 Logic, Computation, and Neural Networks
    • PHIL2310 Theories of Morality

    • PHIL2350 Philosophy of Law
    • PHIL2380 Philosophy and Literature

    • PHIL2420 Chinese Philosophy: Metaphysics
    • PHIL2460 Philosophical Chinese
    • PHIL2510 Logic
    • PHIL2511 Paradoxes
    • PHIL2520 Philosophy of Logic

The remaining eight courses in a student's second/third year programme may be selected from those offered by any department, as permitted by the regulations.

It should be noted that not all courses are offered in both departments every year. Choices are subject to approval by the Head of the School of Humanities on the recommendation of the Undergraduate Coordinators of the departments.

 
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