Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- work effectively to deadlines.
- express views clearly and concisely.
- undertake independent work, including identifying and using appropriate resources.
- take notes from talks and written materials.
- contribute to discussion in a critical but dispassionate way.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- central arguments that have been offered for and against these answers.
- some of the central questions in philosophy of religion, and competing answers to these questions
- how the issues you explore in this module relate to those in other modules (e.g. Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics of Belief)
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- articulate and defend your own views regarding the issues the module concerns.
- debate and criticise ideas and arguments in an even-handed fashion.
- present philosophical ideas in writing, clearly and carefully.
- interpret, synthesise and criticise philosophically complex texts and positions.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 24 |
Follow-up work | 24 |
Completion of assessment task | 22 |
Revision | 23 |
Lecture | 33 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
R Swinburne (2004). The Existence of God. Oxford University Press.
J L Mackie (1983). The Miracle of Theism. Oxford University Press.
B Davies (2004). An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University Press.
L. Wittgenstein (1970). Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Essay proposal
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: You will receive written feedback. Further verbal feedback is available by consultation with the module coordinator.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
- Percentage contribution: 100%
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Exam | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Timed Assignment | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Exam | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External