MSc in Philosophy of Science

Programme code: TMPHYS

Department: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

This information is for the 2016/17 session.

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

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Paper

Course number and title

1

PH400

Philosophy of Science or

 

PH423

Scientific Method and Policy (n/a 16/17) or

 

PH458

Evidence and Policy (H) and one half unit from the list of approved courses for the Philosophy of Science programme

2 & 3

Courses to the value of two units from the following*:

 

PH400

Philosophy of Science (if not taken under Paper 1)

 

PH404

Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues (n/a 16/17)

 

Either PH405 Philosophy of the Social Sciences or PH413 Philosophy of Economics 

 

PH419

Set Theory and Further Logic

PH423

Scientific Method and Policy (if not taken under Paper 1) (n/a 16/17)

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Global Justice (H) (withdrawn 16/17)

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) (if not taken under Paper 1)

4

PH499

Dissertation

 

Students must also take PH445 Philosophical Research and Writing Seminar - Philosophy of Science (non-assessed)

Notes

* Subject to approval, students may take up to one unit of non-PH courses not listed above.