Philosophy is concerned with issues of central importance to human life and society.
No reflective person can avoid thinking about these issues sometimes. The advantages of studying philosophy at university are not only that it gives you the opportunity of discovering what other philosophers, past and present, have thought on these issues, but also that it enables you to develop well-reasoned views and conclusions of your own. We cannot guarantee that you will arrive at answers that will be final, but the study of philosophy does produce a valuable discipline of critical reflection which is also applicable to many other areas of thought and life. Philosophy is a long-established university subject, with a history going back to Ancient Greece, and this history is a central part of the study of the History of Ideas. But Philosophy is also a subject that has become increasingly innovative and a popular choice for today's students, by incorporating new areas of ideas like feminism, continental thought and applied ethics, all of which are strongly represented in Cardiff.