MSc in Philosophy of Science

Programme code: TMPHYS

Full-year programme. Students must take three courses and a dissertation as shown.

Paper

Course number and title

1

PH400

Philosophy of Science OR

 

PH423

Scientific Method and Policy

2 & 3

Courses to the value of two units from the following:

 

PH400

Philosophy of Science (if not taken under paper 1)

 

PH404

Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues

 

Either PH405 Philosophy of the Social Sciences or PH413 Philosophy of Economics 

 

PH419

Set Theory and Further Logic

PH423

Scientific Method and Policy (if not taken under paper 1)

PH425

Business and Organisational Ethics (H)

PH427

Genes, Brains and Society (H)

PH428

Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (H)

PH429

Global Justice (H) (n/a 15/16)

PH430

Einstein for Everyone: From Time Travel to the Edge of the Universe (H)

PH431

Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (H)

PH456

Rationality and Choice

4

PH499

Dissertation

 

Students must also take PH445 Philosophical Research and Writing Seminar - Philosophy of Science (non-assessed)