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MRes Medical Ethics This course aims to provide you with advanced critical, analytical and argumentative skills, to deliver personal fulfilment, professional development and career enhancement, and to encourage reflective practice. It will provide you with knowledge...
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MA Philosophy and Psychoanalysis 1. To provide students with a knowledge of some of the principal concerns, methods and conclusions of modern philosophy in the continental European tradition.
2. To provide a thorough grounding in psychoanalytic theory in the...
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MA Continental Philosophy and Health Care Law To provide students of diverse backgrounds (in particular Law, health care or Philosophy) with the theoretical tools that will help them understand the existential meaning of illness and care in a philosophically grounded...
Category:Philosophy
Study mode:At the institution
MA Continental Philosophy and Health Care Ethics To provide students of diverse backgrounds (in particular health care or Philosophy) with the theoretical tools that will help them understand the existential meaning of illness and care in a philosophically grounded...
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MA Continental Philosophy To provide students of various backgrounds with a rigorous grounding in Continental Philosophy from Kant and Hegel to the present. To present students with the opportunity to engage directly with some of the major texts of the Continental...
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Philosophy, MA/PGDip/PGCert * To introduce and develop students’ powers of philosophical analysis through the practice of careful, detailed readings of primary sources
* To provide a supportive and stimulating environment for philosophical discussion – the...
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Philosophy (PhD / MPhil / MPhilStud) The Birkbeck School of Philosophy offers research-based teaching in a wide range of philosophical subjects. We foster our students' professional development, and have a strong record in securing AHRC studentships. Some of our...
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Philosophy (MA) This degree is ideal if your first degree was solely or mainly in philosophy and you want to catch up on recent developments, or if you are interested in undertaking philosophical research, but are not yet quite ready to commit to an MPhilStud...
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Classics (PhD / MPhil) A research degree offers students the opportunity to acquire a highly advanced set of conceptual skills developed in the pursuit of new knowledge, which can be applied within or beyond an academic or scholarly context. Research training...
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Philosophy - Narrative, Mind and Ethics MA, PgD, PgC There is a longstanding tendency in some mainstream strands of philosophy to intellectualize our ways of interacting with the world and with others. Many contemporary philosophers suppose that our successful...
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MA In Philosophy of Mind and Body To familiarise students with the contemporary theories of relations between mind and body, in particular functionalist models of the mind exploiting analogies between mental functioning and the functioning of computers.
To subject...
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MA Embodiment and Subjectivity This programme is designed to accommodate the increasing interest in philosophies of embodiment from philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists, health and medical science practitioners. The body is no longer thought...
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MA in Applied Ethics The aim of this MA (Master of Arts) programme is to apply the skills and insights derived from philosophical ethics to major contemporary moral and social problems.
These include such problems as new developments in medicine and biotechnology;...
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MA Philosophy This course will allow you to draw on your background in Philosophy to pursue the subject in greater depth at postgraduate level, and to make the transition from undergraduate study to research-based study.
Although it is quite normal for students...
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MA Metaphysics This course will enable you to draw on your background in Philosophy to pursue the area of Metaphysics in greater depth and help you to make the transition from undergraduate study to research-based study.
Although it is quite normal for students...
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MA Ethics and Political Philosophy This course will enable you to draw on your Philosophy background and pursue the subject in greater depth at postgraduate level. It can also help you to bridge the gap from undergraduate study to research-based study, such as...
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MRes Utopian Studies Utopian Studies enable you to gain an understanding of the key ideas, literatures, theories and critical viewpoints which currently characterise the study of Utopia as a theoretical and/or practical realm in which a specific society realises...
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MA in Philosophy The MA is completed in one year full-time or two years part-time.The MA course is assessed by three individually supervised essays of 6,000-7,000 words each, an oral presentation and a dissertation.In addition, the department offers a range of...
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MA in Philosophy Course content
Taught MA: Four taught modules - lectures and seminars.
Research Track: Three taught modules - lectures and seminars. Research seminar.
There are three specialist routes available on the courses:
MA in Philosophy:...
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MA in Philosophy and Literature The MA is designed primarily for those with a BA in Philosophy and at least one of the principal classical or modern literatures who wish to consider the interactions of their undergraduate disciplines. It draws both on the University’s...
