PH445     
Dissertation Seminar - Philosophy of Science

This information is for the 2024/25 session.

Teacher responsible

Prof Miklos Redei LAK.4.03

Availability

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Philosophy of Science. This course is not available as an outside option.

Pre-requisites

None

Course content

The course teaches students to develop the ability to construct sharp analytic arguments and to write structured philosophical essays. It will help students to choose the topic of their dissertation and with how to go about researching the topic and how to write the dissertation. The course starts with reviewing the structure and content of an MSc dissertation in Philosophy, and the grading scheme used for marking dissertations. Students will then first analyse several published papers to understand their structure, and then criticially engage with dissertations from past years focussing on the merits and weaknesses of the selected works and trying to understand why the chosen dissertations received the marks they did. In the final part of the seminar in ST students will give presentations on the progress of their research.

Teaching

10 hours of seminars in the AT. 14 hours of seminars in the ST.

Formative coursework

A number of assignments whose completion will aid the research into and writing of the dissertation will be set.

Assessment

The course is not assessed.

Key facts

Department: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Total students 2023/24: 18

Average class size 2023/24: 17

Controlled access 2023/24: No

Value: Non-credit bearing

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