MSc Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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

Paper

Course number and title

1, 2 & 3

Three of the following:

 

PH400

Philosophy of Science

PH404

Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues

PH405

Philosophy of the Social Sciences ‡

PH411

Philosophy of Biological and Cognitive Sciences 

PH413

Philosophy of Economics ‡

PH416

Philosophy, Morals and Politics 

PH419

Set Theory and Further Logic

PH423

Evidence Objectivity and Policy

PH456

Rationality and Choice

EH477

History of Economics: From Moral Philosophy to Social Science

 

An approved paper from outside the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

4

PH499

Dissertation

Students must also take PH422 Dissertation Seminar - Philosophy of Social Science (non assessed)

Notes

‡ Students must take at least one of PH405 and PH413

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