MA Philosophy
This MA Philosophy is an excellent preparation for a PhD and a career in academia. It also develops critical reasoning, logic, and systematic approaches to problem solving, alongside an ability to analyse an issue from a broader perspective, to allow you to become a visionary, all of which are highly valued by employers in a variety of fields.
Courses
Core courses
For the MA Philosophy all students will complete the following compulsory courses.
Mind & Reality
The Mind & Reality course engages students with classic texts and debates on key...… Read More
Values & Society
The Values & Society seminar series engages students with classic philosophy texts...… Read More
In-Depth Study
You will study four in-depth courses to expand your expertise in specific areas of philosophy.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics is concerned with experience and objects, and their nature and value.… Read More
Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the post-Aristotelian schools.… Read More
Contemporary Ethics
The Contemporary Ethics course investigates the recent ethics literature, with a focu… Read More
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science
This course investigates questions about knowledge and the justification of beliefs, … Read More
History of Ethics
This course investigates the history of philosophical ethics in the west. We study cl… Read More
Kant to Nietzsche
The Kant to Nietzsche course at NCH engages with Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason… Read More
Metaphysics
The Metaphysics course at NCH investigates the fundamental nature of reality, beginni… Read More
Modern Philosophy
Focusing on the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.… Read More
Philosophy of Mind & Language
Foundational concepts, problems, & theories in the philosophy of mind and language… Read More
Political Philosophy
Authority, liberty, democracy, justice, the market: these are themes of enormous inte… Read More
Dissertation
Your studies culminate in the research and preparation of a 10.000 to 15,000-word dissertation on a philosophical topic, which you will defend in a viva voce examination.
Dissertation
Each student writes a 10,000 – 15,000- word philosophy dissertation on an approved to… Read More