MSc Philosophy of Science

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

 

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

PH425

Business and Organisational Ethics (H) *

PH427

Genes, Brains, and Society: Philosophical Issues in the Biomedical Sciences (H)

PH428

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

PH429

Global Justice (H)

PH430

Chaos and Spacetime - Introduction to Philosophy of Physics I (H)

PH431

Quanta and Entropy - Introduction to Philosophy of Physics II (H)

PH456

Rationality and Choice

4

PH499

Dissertation

 

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

Notes

‡ if not taken as Paper 1 
* Plus an approved half-unit course from outside the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method