MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Programme code: TMPHSS

Full-year programme. Students take optional courses to the value of 3 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) * (n/a 15/16)

EH429

History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H) * (n/a 15/16)

PH400

Philosophy of Science

PH404

Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues

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 

PH425

Business and Organisational Ethics (H)

PH427

Genes, Brains and Society (H)

PH428

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

PH429

Global Justice (H) (n/a 15/16)

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)

PH456

Rationality and Choice

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.