{"id":8562,"date":"2021-09-28T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/?page_id=8562"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:45:14","slug":"philosophy-joint-honours","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/education\/study-programmes\/undergraduate-study-programmes\/philosophy-joint-honours\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy (Joint Honours)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t

General information<\/p>\n\t\t\t

<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
\n\n
Study programme title<\/td>Bachelor\u2019s degree (B.A.) programme in Philosophy<\/em> (Joint Honours)<\/td><\/tr>
Type of study programme<\/td>University<\/td><\/tr>
Length<\/td>3 years (6 semesters)<\/td><\/tr>
ECTS<\/td>90<\/td><\/tr>
Academic qualification<\/td>Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (univ. bacc. phil.<\/em>)<\/td><\/tr>
Title and qualification code in the C.Q.F. Register<\/td>–<\/td><\/tr>
Study completion requirements<\/td>Passing all the exams and successfully completing the undergraduate dissertation.<\/td><\/tr>
Possibilities of continuing education<\/td>At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, students can enrol on the M.A. in Philosophy<\/em> (Joint Honours) \u2013 Modules: Teaching and General<\/td><\/tr>
Employment possibilities<\/td>Students will have acquired a degree of literacy and education that enables them to work in the media, publishing, the civil sector, and management in public administration. They can also work in other areas where there is a need for transferable skills, such as the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to engage in critical thinking and complex analysis. Such skills can be used in cross-sectoral collaborations between science, education and research, the advancement of democratic political culture and human rights, making connections between governmental bodies and civil society, or anywhere where the acquired philosophical knowledge and skills can be actively applied to solve social problems.<\/td><\/tr>
Enrolment conditions<\/td>Further details about enrolment can be found on: Postani student<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t

Course list<\/p>\n\t\t\t

<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
\n\n
Year 1<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Semester I<\/strong><\/td>Semester II<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Logic<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Ancient Philosophy<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Introduction to Philosophy<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Ethics<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Physical Education 1<\/td>1 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Philosophical Research and Writing<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Elective Course<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Physical Education 2<\/td>1 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Year 2<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Semester III<\/strong><\/td>Semester IV<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Aesthetics<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Physical Education 3<\/td>1 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Symbolic Logic<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Elective Course 1<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Physical Education 4<\/td>1 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Elective Course 2<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Elective Course<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Elective Course 3<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Year 3<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Semester V<\/strong><\/td>Semester VI<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Epistemology<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Metaphysics<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy as a System: History of Classical German Idealism<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Twentieth-Century Contemporary Philosophy<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Elective Course<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td>Undergraduate Dissertation<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Elective Courses<\/strong>
(The elective courses offered and delivered are determined each academic year in the study programme’s course delivery plan.)<\/span><\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
A Priori Classical Texts<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Arguments<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Analytical Marxism<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Ancient Philosophy of Mind<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Ancient Scepticism<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Bioethics and the Women’s Question<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Bioethics<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Democracy, the Internet and Fake News<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Democratic Theory<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Cognition and neurodiversity<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Existentialism<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Economy and Cognition<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Emotions<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Ethics of International Relations<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Biology<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Wellbeing<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Film and the Performing Arts<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of History<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Language<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Literature<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Logic<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Psychiatry<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Psychology<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Psychopathy<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Sexuality<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Sport<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Art<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophical Anthropology<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophical Problems of Science<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Croatian Philosophy<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Kantian Critique of Pure Reason<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Christian Philosophy<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Libertarianism: Ethics and Politics of the Free Market<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Logical Positivism<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Thought Experiments<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Moral Responsibility<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Moral Psychology<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Moral Reasons<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Moral Reasoning<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Narrative, Mind and World<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Naturalism and Ethics<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Naturalism and the Mind<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Selected Questions in the Philosophy of Religion<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Ontology and Ethics of Nicolai Hartmann<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Rudimentary Problems in Antique Ethics<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Personal Identity<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Paradoxes<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Political Ideas and Public Policy<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
History of Political Philosophy I<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
History of Political Philosophy II<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Practical Ethics<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Overcoming Nihilism: Friedrich Nietzsche<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
The Problem of Intentionality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Relativism<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
The Meaning of Life<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Free Will<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Death<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Social Justice and Public Policy<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Cognition in the Real World<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Comprehension and Neurodiversity<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Medieval Philosophy<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Consciousness and Naturalism<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Consciousness and Content<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Theories of Distributive Justice<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Art and Moral Learning<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Introduction to Critical Thinking<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Wittgenstein<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Science and Explanation<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Science and Politics<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Science and Value<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Star Trek<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Popularisation of Science, Media and Public Epistemology<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Pragmatism and Neopragmatism<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Mind and Artificial Intelligence<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy and Food<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Phenomenology of Experience, Body and Mind<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Emotions, Virtues and Character<\/td>3 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
List of elective courses within the Erasmus\/YUFE module ‘Interdisciplinary Studies of the Mind’, jointly offered by the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology for Erasmus\/YUFE students (primarily students of Philosophy, Psychology and related disciplines)<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy of Psychiatry<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Topics in Philosophy of Mind<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology<\/td>6 ECTS<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t

Learning outcomes<\/p>\n\t\t\t

<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
\n\n

Core learning outcomes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Collective learning outcomes<\/th>Individual learning outcomes<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY<\/td>1. List and explain the main historical periods, directions, representatives, and approaches in philosophy.
2. Explain the development of philosophical disciplines and the central debates within them.
3. Identify and separate the main concepts and debates in specific historical periods, directions, and approaches.
4. Contextualise philosophy\u2019s position in relation to other closely related sciences and disciplines.<\/td><\/tr>
PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINES – FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND THEORETICAL DIRECTIONS<\/td>1. Present, explain, and analyse foundational philosophical concepts, problems, and their solutions in specific disciplines.
2. Comprehend, analyse, and compare dominant philosophical theories in particular disciplines and independently assess which of them most successfully responds to selected problems.
3. Provide a contextualised historical overview of philosophical approaches in particular disciplines.
4. Describe and explain the basic positions of the most important philosophers in specific disciplines.<\/td><\/tr>
CRITICAL-ANALYTICAL SKILLS AND METHODOLOGY<\/td>1. Apply the tools of informal and formal logic to identify, analyse and evaluate arguments and their structure.
2. Evaluate the validity of arguments and assess their persuasiveness and strength.
3. Analyse and evaluate the logical structure of texts, prove logical relationships, and recognise typical errors in argumentation.
4. Critically apply and demonstrate the basic methods and strategies of critical thinking.
5. Acquire basic skills in the independent reading and interpretation of classical philosophical texts.
6. Comprehend, analyse, and compare foundational methodological approaches within different philosophical domains.
7. Independently produce an academic article using the relevant literature, and applying academic conventions for quoting, paraphrasing, referencing, and writing a bibliography.
8. Apply basic theoretical principles found in different philosophical domains to real life social problems and situations.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":8558,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8562","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21188,"href":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8562\/revisions\/21188"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffri.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}