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·¬ºÅ¿âapp is just a stone's throw from the Sidgwick Site, where the Philosophy Faculty is located and where most philosophy lectures and classes take place.

The College library is well stocked with core readings in philosophy, and we have access to a strong network of supervisors from across the University who will be able to support learning across the full syllabus.

Cambridge University has an especially distinguished place in the history of 20th-century philosophy. It was here, in the early years of the century, that Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Frank Ramsey and others developed the analytic style of philosophy that is now prominent throughout the world.

The Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge retains a strong commitment to this analytic style, though this does not preclude active study and teaching of the history of philosophy from Socrates to Nietzsche, and of such subjects as aesthetics and political philosophy.

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Dr Tim Lewens' advice for prospective applicants: Philosophy is a subject that not everyone has the opportunity to study at school. If you are in that situation (or even if you are studying for A-level) then there are plenty of other ways to engage with the subject. You could start a philosophy club and work through a book or an online talk with friends. And if you are stuck for resources there are great podcasts, such as Philosophy Bites, or the more philosophical episodes of In Our Time; there are introductory books, such as Simon Blackburn’s Think; and of course you can read the classics. You will learn a lot if you read Descartes’ Meditations, or even something much more recent like Parfit’s Reasons and Persons. But also consider looking at texts that bring philosophy into dialogue with the problems posed by medicine, science and technology: books like O’Neill’s Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics; or Douglas’s Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal.