This is a conversion programme for graduates whose first degree does not include a substantial component devoted to philosophy as practised in the analytical tradition. The programme provides an introduction to a broad range of core topics in analytic philosophy and prepares you for undertaking a research degree. In recent years it has been particularly successful, with many of our students going on subsequently to conduct successful doctoral research on a specific philosophical topic.
Content
You will take six taught courses and then write a dissertation under supervision. Introduction to analytic philosophy (1) and Introduction to analytic philosophy (2) are compulsory, and are taken in the first and second semesters respectively, while the remaining four courses are chosen from a wide range of options, including:
* History of modern philosophy
* Metaphysics
* Epistemology
* Moral and political texts
* Moral and political theory
* Greek philosophy
* Hegel
* Marxism
* Environmental ethics
* Philosophy of mind
* Philosophy of language
* Aesthetics
* Formal logic
* Kant
* Philosophy of mathematics
* Philosophy of perception
* Philosophy of psychology
* Philosophy of religion
* Scottish Enlightenment
* Philosophy of science.