PPE without a major interest in Philosophy
Currently Yr 12 and planning on applying for Economics and Politics courses. A levels Maths, Further Maths, Economics and History.
As the title suggests I am considering applying for PPE at Oxford as 1/5, however my passion doesn't lie in Philosophy.
How important is this in terms of application, interview etc?
From reading it seems that after Yr 1 you can specialise so I could reduce to mainly an Economics/politics syllabus. But without a real passion for Philosophy would this be a waste of an application?
As the title suggests I am considering applying for PPE at Oxford as 1/5, however my passion doesn't lie in Philosophy.
How important is this in terms of application, interview etc?
From reading it seems that after Yr 1 you can specialise so I could reduce to mainly an Economics/politics syllabus. But without a real passion for Philosophy would this be a waste of an application?
Reply 1
Have you considered the History and Economics course at Oxford?
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by BetaVersion2.9Have you considered the History and Economics course at Oxford?
This is a very strong suggestion. No point taking PPE just because it sounds flashy.
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by transient-jockeyCurrently Yr 12 and planning on applying for Economics and Politics courses. A levels Maths, Further Maths, Economics and History.
As the title suggests I am considering applying for PPE at Oxford as 1/5, however my passion doesn't lie in Philosophy.
How important is this in terms of application, interview etc?
From reading it seems that after Yr 1 you can specialise so I could reduce to mainly an Economics/politics syllabus. But without a real passion for Philosophy would this be a waste of an application?
As the title suggests I am considering applying for PPE at Oxford as 1/5, however my passion doesn't lie in Philosophy.
How important is this in terms of application, interview etc?
From reading it seems that after Yr 1 you can specialise so I could reduce to mainly an Economics/politics syllabus. But without a real passion for Philosophy would this be a waste of an application?
Reply 4
Why would you want to do an interdisciplinary course where you are not interested in one of the disciplines?
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by thegeek888The Cambridge Economics degree might suit your 'taste' better, perhaps? 🙂
I'd prefer not to do straight Economics. As it becomes alot of maths... and I'd prefer a more balanced degree.
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by BetaVersion2.9Have you considered the History and Economics course at Oxford?
I have looked at it. And whilst History was always my preferred subject, I feel as though A levels are where I will leave my history studies.
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by mememememememe11This is a very strong suggestion. No point taking PPE just because it sounds flashy.
Oh, its not because it sounds flashy... . Its the only course available that combines Economics and Politics.
We do cover some Economic philosophy in Economics and I find that very interesting. It's more at the 'are we real' level that I'm unsure about. I suppose I quite like having definitive answers at the end of a problem to solve. And as the course suggests that after term 1 Yr 1 you can streamline it towards 2 disciplines I was asking opinions on how accurate this is.
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by transient-jockeyOh, its not because it sounds flashy... . Its the only course available that combines Economics and Politics.
We do cover some Economic philosophy in Economics and I find that very interesting. It's more at the 'are we real' level that I'm unsure about. I suppose I quite like having definitive answers at the end of a problem to solve. And as the course suggests that after term 1 Yr 1 you can streamline it towards 2 disciplines I was asking opinions on how accurate this is.
We do cover some Economic philosophy in Economics and I find that very interesting. It's more at the 'are we real' level that I'm unsure about. I suppose I quite like having definitive answers at the end of a problem to solve. And as the course suggests that after term 1 Yr 1 you can streamline it towards 2 disciplines I was asking opinions on how accurate this is.
I am sure within any compulosry philosphy there will be a large amout of Systematic Philosophy (which is very much the English tradition that Oxford follows). This is less concerned with abstracts like "Are we real?"; though it is still rather more abstract than the other subjects. Looking up the basics of Systematic Philosophy would be a good thing to do though, as it certainly is more concrete than the esoteric Greek/European philosophy you're probably worried about. Still, there may well be some mention of "Am I real?" and that type of thing, almost guaranteed, but not as much as you may think.
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