(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 377)
Regulation 6.
The Faculty Board of Philosophy give notice that Papers 2 (Philosophy of mind) and 6 (Philosophy of science) for Part II of the Philosophy Tripos are suspended for the academical year 2005-06.
Regulations 7-9.
The regulations have been amended to permit a candidate for Part II to offer both the essay paper (Paper 12) and a dissertation.
By amending the regulations so as to read:
7. Except as provided in Regulation 8 below, a candidate for Part II shall offer papers as follows:
| (a) | a candidate who takes the examination in the year next after obtaining honours in Part IB of the Philosophy Tripos shall offer
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| (b) | a candidate who takes the examination in the year next after obtaining honours in an examination other than Part IB of the Philosophy Tripos shall offer
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| (c) | a candidate who takes the examination in the year next but one after last obtaining honours in any examination shall offer
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provided that a candidate who has previously obtained honours in Part II of the Classical Tripos shall not offer any paper that he or she offered in that examination.
8. In place of any one of Papers 1-11, a candidate who has previously obtained honours in Part IB of the Philosophy Tripos may submit two essays, each of not less than 3,000 words and not more than 4,000 words in length, including footnotes and appendices but excluding bibliography, on two topics approved by the Chairman of Examiners, which shall both fall within the scope of that paper, provided that
| (i) | a candidate shall not submit both a dissertation under the provisions of Regulation 7 and essays under the provisions of this paragraph; |
| (ii) | a candidate who chooses to submit essays under the provisions of this paragraph shall not write in Paper 12 an essay on a subject that overlaps significantly with either of the submitted essays. |
9. (a) A candidate for Part IB who chooses to offer two submitted essays under the provisions of Regulation 5(d), or a candidate for Part II who chooses to offer a dissertation under the provisions of Regulation 7 or two submitted essays under the provisions of Regulation 8 shall submit the proposed title of the dissertation or the proposed titles of the essays, together with a statement of the papers to be offered in the examination, and in the case of essays a statement of the paper which they are intended to replace, through his or her Director of Studies to the Chairman of Examiners so as to arrive not later than one week before the last day of Full Michaelmas Term. A candidate must obtain the approval of the Chairman of Examiners for the proposed title or titles not later than the last day of Full Michaelmas Term. Dissertations and essays shall be submitted to the Chairman of Examiners, in accordance with detailed arrangements approved by the Faculty Board, so as to arrive not later than the last day of the Lent Term next preceding the examination. Every candidate submitting a dissertation or a pair of essays will be required to sign a declaration that the work submitted is his or her own work, unaided except as may be specified in the declaration, and that it does not contain material that has already been used to any substantial extent for a comparable purpose. The Examiners shall have power (i) if they consider that a dissertation or an essay is not sufficiently legible, to require that it be resubmitted in typescript, and (ii) to examine any candidate viva voce on his or her dissertation or essays.
(b) A dissertation, which shall be on a topic of philosophical interest approved by the Chairman of Examiners, shall be of not more than 6,000 words and (except with the permission of the Chairman of Examiners) not less than 4,000 words in length, including footnotes and appendices but excluding bibliography. For a candidate who offers both Paper 12 and a dissertation, the topic of the dissertation shall not fall within the scope of any of the papers chosen from Papers 1 to 11, and the candidate shall not write in Paper 12 an essay on a subject that overlaps significantly with the dissertation.