This degree, specifically for students who wish to continue to MPhil or PhD research, establishes critical and research skills. Whereas the MA aims at breadth, the MRes trains graduate students to specialise in an area of proposed doctoral research.
Entry Requirements
An honours degree (normally 2.1 or above) or equivalent in philosophy or in another appropriate subject
UK and EU Full time: £4,500 Part time: £2,350 Overseas: Full time: £11,500 Part time: £5,725
Module Details
Core modules
Knowledge and Reality
Examine current theories in epistemology and analytic metaphysics, in particular such themes as realism, justification, scepticism and freedom.
Research Skills in Philosophy
Learn research skills – research methodology, project management and a dissertation workshop – as well as subject-specific skills in our philosophy research student seminar.
Optional modules
Ethics
Examine contemporary debates in normative and meta-ethics, including intuitionism, the ‘naturalistic fallacy’, moral reasoning, deontology and utilitarianism.
Political Philosophy
Explore contributions to current debates on selected themes.
Logic and Language
Explore key views of Frege, Russell and Kripke on meaning and reference and examines truth, theories of meaning, interpretation and contextualism.
Mind and Psychology
Think critically about the nature of the mind, its relation to the body, and the philosophical implications of contemporary theories in cognitive psychology.
Reason and Religion
Examine historical and contemporary topics such as arguments for and against the existence of God, the nature of religious belief and language, and ideas of the afterlife.
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