Study Details: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
Explore the ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping our lives and raising complex social, political, ethical and conceptual questions.
On this MA you can study issues in AI and investigate them through your own research. You can choose from a wide range of option modules. You’ll also be able to create a substantial piece of research following your own interests, with our support. You’ll develop valuable transferable skills in research, analysis, critical thinking and presentation which will be essential if you are thinking of continuing to study to PhD level. The skills that you develop on the course will also equip you for a range of careers, including work with technology ethics and policy, and technology consulting.
You’ll join our postgraduate community across both the Department of Philosophy and the Humanities Research Centre, and participate in our broad and diverse research culture.
2:2 or equivalent
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Studying Philosophy develops skills that are highly sought after by employers and transferable to many different careers. Our MA will prepare you for careers including further academic work on the philosophy of AI, technology ethics and policy, and technology consulting. Our graduates have gone on to roles in marketing, education, finance, IT, the charity sector, tourism and leisure industries, as well as into academia.
Career opportunities
Core modules
Research Skills and Dissemination Practice
Topics in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Option modules
You will also study four option modules. The availability of each option module is subject to a minimum enrolment number. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
Advanced Topics in Ethics
Advanced Topics in Political Philosophy
Comparative Analytic Theology
Ethics and Epistemology of Digital Methods in Science
Freedom, Right, and Revolution: Post-Kantian Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy
Phenomenology and Psychiatry
Problem Based Learning: Surveillance Capitalism
Reading Philosophy
Social Justice and Political Economy
Time, Tense, and Existence
Topics in Consciousness and Representation
Topics in Perception and Emotion
Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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