MSc in Economics and Philosophy

Programme code: TMECPH

Department: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (five units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students take courses to the value of four units and a dissertation. Students are also required to attend EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics.

Paper

Course number and title

1 & 2

Two of the following:

 

EC402

Econometrics

EC411

Microeconomics

EC413

Macroeconomics

3 & 4

Courses to the value of two full 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

PH415

Philosophy and Public Policy

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)

5

PH499

Dissertation

Students must also take PH418 Dissertation Seminar - Economics and Philosophy (non-assessed)

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.