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

Year 1, Academic year 2016/17, 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. Confirmation of running courses will be available by the programme start date.

    For courses co-taught with undergraduate students and with no remaining undergraduate spaces left, a maximum of 8 MSc students can join the course. Priority will be given to MSc students who wish to take the course for credit on a first come first served basis after matriculation.

    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  
    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  
    PHIL11118    Formal Semantics for Philosophers MSc   20  
    PHIL11123    Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates   20  
    PHIL11081    Philosophy of Time 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  
    PHIL11145    The Structure of Being MSc   20  
    PHIL11064    Themes in Epistemology MSc   20  
    PHIL11146    CogLab 1: Seminars in Contemporary Cognitive Science   10  
    PHIL11147    CogLab 2: Seminars in Contemporary Cognitive Science   10  
    PHIL11151    Advanced Topics in Epistemology   20  
    PHIL11155    Philosophy of Well-Being MSc   20  
    PHIL11148    The Philosophy of Fiction MSc   20  
    PHIL11149    Conditionals MSc   20  
    PHIL11150    Puzzles & Paradoxes MSc   20  
    PHIL11152    Kant's Critical Philosophy MSc   20  
    PHIL11153    Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty MSc   20  
    PHIL11156    Metaphysics MSc   20  
    PHIL11068    The Nature of Moral Understanding MSc   20  
    PHIL11158    Belief, Desire and Rational Choice MSc   20  
    PHIL11166    Knowledge, Ignorance and Power MSc   20  
    PHIL11165    Metaphysical and Epistemological Issues in Feminism MSc   20  
    PHIL11164    Modal Logics MSc   20  
    PHIL11163    Food for Thought: The Ethics of Food Choices MSc   20  
    PHIL11162    The Philosophy of Simone Weil MSc   20  
    PHIL11161    Theory of Virtue MSc   20  
    PHIL11141    Philosophy of Science MSc   20  
    PGSP11448    Contemporary Political Theory: Engaging with Current Research   20  
    PHIL11083    Philosophical Issues in Evolution MSc   20  
    PHIL11121    Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science MSc   20  
    PHIL11115    The Computational Mind MSc   20  
    PHIL11066    Metaphysics of Mind MSc   20  
    PHIL11075    The Rationalists: Spinoza and Leibniz MSc   20  
    PHIL11125    The Philosophy of David Hume MSc   20  
    PHIL11124    Environmental Ethics 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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