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Degree Programme Table: Philosophy (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCPHILY1F)

Year 1, Academic year 2014/15, Starting month: September

  • Notes: A total of 120 credits of courses and 60 credits of dissertation must be taken to achieve the MSc. The Programme Director must approve choice of courses.

    Students should be aware that not all optional courses will necessarily be available in any given year.

    It should also be noted students with a background in Philosophy may be able to substitute the compulsory course Introduction to Philosophical Method for another suitable 20 credit course at the discretion of the Programme Director.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 3 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHIL11009 Advanced philosophical method Semester 2 20
    PHIL11001 Philosophy Dissertation (MSc Dip) As available 60
    PHIL11008 Introduction to Philosophical Method Semester 1 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 80 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PHIL11038    Advanced topics in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition   20  
    PHIL11037    Introduction to Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition   20  
    PHIL11043    Meta-Ethics (MSc)   20  
    PHIL11067    Free Will and Moral Responsibility MSc   20  
    PHIL11054    Ancient Theories of Existence (MSc)   20  
    PHIL11093    Epistemology 2   20  
    PHIL11101    Philosophy of Time Travel MSc   20  
    PHIL11021    Theories of Mind (Philosophy MSc)   20  
    PHIL11113    Mind and Body in Early Modern Philosophy   20  
    PHIL11106    Ancient Philosophy Seminar I   20  
    PHIL11107    Ancient Philosophy Seminar II   20  
    PHIL11111    Social Cognition MSc   20  
    PHIL11105    Applied Ethics MSc   20  
    PHIL11062    Normative Theory MSc   20  
    PHIL11115    The Computational Mind MSc   20  
    PHIL11117    Scepticism MSc   20  
    PHIL11118    Formal Semantics for Philosophers MSc   20  
    PHIL11119    Formal Methods in Philosophy MSc   20  
    PHIL11121    Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science MSc   20  
    PHIL11123    Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates   20  
    PHIL11125    The Philosophy of David Hume MSc   20  
    PHIL11081    Philosophy of Time MSc   20  
    PHIL11029    Aesthetics   20  
    PHIL11085    British Idealism and Immaterialism MSc   20  
    PPLS11004    Cognition, Culture and Context   10  
    PHIL11027    Feminism   20  
    PHIL11140    Further Topics in Meta-Ethics   20  
    PHIL11097    History of Analytic Philosophy MSc   20  
    PHIL11114    Logic, Computability and Incompleteness   20  
    PHIL11022    Philosophy of Language   20  
    PHIL11089    Philosophy of Psychology MSc   20  
    PHIL11026    Philosophy of Religion   20  
    PHIL11142    Reason and Experience: Seventeenth Century Philosophy MSc   20  
    PHIL11122    The Early Continentals: Hegel and Nietzsche MSc   20  
    PHIL11128    Philosophy of Time MSc (Semester 1)   20  
    PHIL11103    Philosophy of Time Travel MSc (Semester 1)   20  
    PHIL11145    The Structure of Being MSc   20  
    PHIL11064    Themes in Epistemology MSc   20  
    PHIL11064    Themes in Epistemology MSc   20  

    Notes:Students are usually allowed to substitute 40 option credits for other courses from School Collection A-I at level 11 with the agreement of the programme director.
     


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