MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Programme code: TMPHSS
Department: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
This information is for the 2016/17 session.
Full-year programme. Students take optional courses to the value of three units, a compulsory seminar and a dissertation as shown.
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Paper |
Course number and title | |
|---|---|---|
1, 2 & 3 |
Courses to the value of three units from the following: | |
|
History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (H) * (n/a 16/17) | |
History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H) * | ||
Philosophy of Science | ||
Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues (n/a 16/17) | ||
Philosophy of the Social Sciences ‡ | ||
Philosophy of Economics ‡ | ||
Philosophy, Morals and Politics | ||
Set Theory and Further Logic | ||
Scientific Method and Policy (n/a 16/17) | ||
Business and Organisational Ethics (H) | ||
Genes, Brains and Society (H) | ||
Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (H) | ||
PH429 |
Global Justice (H) (withdrawn 16/17) | |
Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (H) | ||
Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (H) | ||
Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (H) | ||
Evidence and Policy (H) | ||
Rationality and Choice | ||
4 |
Dissertation | |
Students must also take PH422 Dissertation Seminar - Philosophy of Social Science (non-assessed) | ||
Notes | ||
* Subject to approval, students may take up to one unit of non-PH courses not listed above. This would be instead of either EH428 (n/a 16/17) and/or EH429 and not in addition to these courses. | ||
