Welcome to the Department of Philosophy
We are delighted that you are a student at Nottingham and we look forward to working with you. In due course, we look forward to meeting you in person.
Wherever your interests lie, we’re sure your studies here will extend them in new directions, as well as helping you to develop your intellectual confidence and maturity.
We hope you enjoy your time at Nottingham. If you’re unsure about anything in these early weeks, don’t be afraid to ask questions or seek help from staff.
Choosing your modules
Alongside your compulsory modules, you may be asked to choose some optional ones. Guidance about this process can be found on your Moodle community hub personal tutor Welcome.
Next steps
Keep an eye out for an email about how to register online and receive your university username and password. Once you have done so, take a look at your module guidance on Moodle and start thinking about what modules you want to pick.
Postgraduate research students are invited to contact their supervisors and/or the Director of PGR Studies.
Get to know the Humanities Building
AccessAble is a service providing an interactive map for accessible routes across campus. It also provides accessibility information for individual buildings. You may wish to familiarise yourself with the Humanities building before you arrive with the Humanities Building Accessibility Guide.
Undergraduate reading list
Once you get here you’ll have access to multiple on-campus libraries to read and study in (as well as access to thousands of e-books). Until then, we’ve put together the below list of books that you might want to take a look at before you arrive.
Please note that this is for guidance only - it is not compulsory to buy any of these books. You might want to check out your local library to see if they have any of them in stock.
- Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean? a Very Short Introduction to Philosophy, 1987
- Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class, 1982
- Graham Priest, Logic: A Very Short Introduction, 2000
- David E. Cooper, World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction, 2nd Edition, 2002
- Martha Nussbaum, Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities, 2010
- René Descartes, The Meditations, originally published in 1641 but there are lot of editions published more recently!