Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Admission Requirements

Enrolling for this study plan is only possible based on your academic record.

You may also be asked to provide additional documents so we may evaluate your application.

Aanbevelingsbrief 1 / Letter of recommendation 1
Aanbevelingsbrief 2 / Letter of recommendation 2
Motivatiebrief / Letter of motivation
Puntenlijst / Transcript of records

Overview of the study plan

1. General Courses
1.1 Advanced optional courses
1.2 Research project
1.3 Research seminars
1.4 Languag proficiency
2. Elective courses
3. Master's Dissertation


1. General Courses

Students who already have a Master's degree in Philosophy, Moral Sciences or Philosophy and Moral Sciences are exempt from the advanced optional courses (1.1), elective courses (2.) and two of the five research seminars (1.3)
Students following the standard learning track, will in the first year take no less than 30 and no more than 39 credit unit from the advanced optional courses and the elective courses. This will be supplemented by 20 credits of research seminars. In the second year, 30 credits are chosen from the research seminars, aside from the research project and the master's dissertation.

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 30 ECTS credits.

5ECTS credits - Capita Selecta in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy: Analysis of Texts
5ECTS credits - Global Ethics
5ECTS credits - Sexual and Relational Ethics
6ECTS credits - Introduction to feminist thought
6ECTS credits - Master Seminar: Secularization and Disenchantment
6ECTS credits - Philosophy of the Enlightenment
6ECTS credits - Contemporary Culture and Political Philosophy
6ECTS credits - History and Philosophy of Scientific Methodology
6ECTS credits - Philosophy and Society
5ECTS credits - Metaphysics
5ECTS credits - Epistemology: Capita Selecta
6ECTS credits - Critical Issues in Analytical Philosophy
6ECTS credits - Technology & Society
6ECTS credits - Scientific and Science Communication / Communicating Science
6ECTS credits - Bioethics
5ECTS credits - Advanced Research Issues in Philosophical Anthropology
5ECTS credits - Capita Selecta in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy: Analysis of Text

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1.2 Research project

Obligatory course

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 9 ECTS credits.

9ECTS credits - Developing and Writing Research Proposals in Philosophy

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1.3 Research seminars

Subscribe to 45 credit units from the following list.

To complete this module, students must obtain 45 ECTS credits.

1.3 Research seminars

Subscribe to 20 credit units in the first year

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 18 ECTS credits.

9ECTS credits - Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
9ECTS credits - Philosophical Anthropology
9ECTS credits - Contemporary Continental Philosophy
9ECTS credits - Religion and Secularisation
9ECTS credits - History and Reception of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Religion
9ECTS credits - History of Early Modern Philosophy
9ECTS credits - Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy
9ECTS credits - Religion and Secularisation
9ECTS credits - Empirical Ethics
9ECTS credits - Philosophy and Ethics of Gender, Sexuality and Diversity
9ECTS credits - Political Philosophy after Rawls: Equality, Justice and Diversity
9ECTS credits - Bio-Ethics
9ECTS credits - Media Philosophy and Media Theory
9ECTS credits - Logic
9ECTS credits - Philosophy of Biomedical and Social Sciences
9ECTS credits - Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
9ECTS credits - History and Philosophy of Science
9ECTS credits - Philosophy of Mind and Cognition

1.3 Research seminars

Subscribe to 30 credit units in the second year

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 27 ECTS credits.

9ECTS credits - Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
9ECTS credits - Philosophical Anthropology
9ECTS credits - Contemporary Continental Philosophy
9ECTS credits - Religion and Secularisation
9ECTS credits - History and Reception of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Religion
9ECTS credits - History of Early Modern Philosophy
9ECTS credits - Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy
9ECTS credits - Religion and Secularisation
9ECTS credits - Empirical Ethics
9ECTS credits - Philosophy and Ethics of Gender, Sexuality and Diversity
9ECTS credits - Political Philosophy after Rawls: Equality, Justice and Diversity
9ECTS credits - Bio-Ethics
9ECTS credits - Media Philosophy and Media Theory
9ECTS credits - Logic
9ECTS credits - Philosophy of Biomedical and Social Sciences
9ECTS credits - Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
9ECTS credits - History and Philosophy of Science
9ECTS credits - Philosophy of Mind and Cognition

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2. Elective Courses

Subscribe to no more than 10 credit units from the Master's programmes of the universities involved...

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 9 ECTS credits.

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1.4 Language proficiency

Taalvaardigheid

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 3 ECTS credits.

3ECTS credits - Advanced Academic English

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Master's Dissertation

Obligatory course

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 24 ECTS credits.

24ECTS credits - Master's Dissertation

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