Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Admission Requirements

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MA PHILOSOPHY AND/OR MORAL SCIENCES - GREAT(EST) DISTINCTION

Overview of the study plan

1. General Courses
1.1 Research seminars
2. 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 units from the advanced optional courses and the elective courses. This will be supplemented by 18 credits of research seminars. In the second year, 27 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 9 ECTS credits.

9ECTS credits - Developing and Writing Research Proposals in Philosophy

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Research seminars

Subscribe to 27 credit units from the following list.

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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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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