Philosophy at York will challenge you to form your own opinions on life’s biggest questions about ethics, knowledge, the mind, politics and science.Why choose York: Embark on a personal, intellectually-rich philosophical journey. Study major philosophical texts past and present. Discover Aristotle and the classics, questions of data privacy, the mind, the nature and limits of art and beyond. Take interdisciplinary electives with project-based learning experiences that address real-world challenges. Along the way, you’ll learn to apply philosophical reasoning to contemporary issues.Our teaching is informed by groundbreaking research. We collaborate across disciplines and make significant contributions to contemporary debates. Our staff have been involved in debate and strategy around AI development, governance and quality assurance. They’ve worked with Public Health England to review the ethics of data collection in healthcare. They've highlighted issues of social justice and been involved in the development of community wealth building at a local level in cities across the UK, US and elsewhere.Build valuable skills and prepare for your career. You’ll develop your own research projects, learning to think critically, analyse data, and consider every angle to form and defend nuanced arguments. Through written work, podcasting and even poster design, you’ll learn how to communicate complex ideas in an accessible way. We host regular talks with visiting academics. You can even take a placement or internship and apply what you’ve learned in real-world scenarios. Graduate as an independent thinker ready for a wide range of careers.Learning outcomes for this course: Understand and explain key problems, issues, and debates across a wide range of areas of philosophy and its history—including some at the forefront of contemporary work—and communicate complex and difficult ideas in clear, precise, and accessible terms in a variety of formats. Develop and articulate ranges of alternative solutions to problems and issues in an open-minded and imaginative way, and establish ways of making progress in answering questions even where it is unclear in the first instance how to proceed or what the standards for a good answer to the question might be.