MSc Philosophy of the Social Sciences

MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Programme code: TMPHSS

Department: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Full-year programme. Students take optional courses to the value of three units, a compulsory seminar and a dissertation as shown.

Paper	Course number and title
1, 2 & 3	Courses to the value of three units from the following:
	EH428	History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (H) *
	EH429	History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H) *
	PH400	Philosophy of Science
	PH404	Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues (not available 2017/18)
	PH405	Philosophy of the Social Sciences ‡
	PH413	Philosophy of Economics ‡
	PH416	Philosophy, Morals and Politics
	PH419	Set Theory and Further Logic
	PH423	Scientific Method and Policy (not available 2017/18)
	PH425	Business and Organisational Ethics (H)
	PH427	Genes, Brains and Society (H)
	PH428	Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (H)
	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)
	PH432	Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (H)
	PH456	Rationality and Choice
	PH458	Evidence and Policy (H)
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
* Subject to approval, students may take up to one unit of non-PH courses not listed above. This would be instead of either EH428 and/or EH429 and not in addition to these courses.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.