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Philosophy of Medicine

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MA

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Part Time, Full Time

| Admissions status: Open
STRUCTURE OVERVIEW
Core programme content
  • Philosophy of Medicine (20 credits)
  • Perspectives on Death & Killing (20 credits)
  • Dissertation (on a topic in the Philosophy of Medicine - 60 credits).

 


Indicative non-core content

Option modules:

The following modules are likely to be offered in 2013-14, although this is not set in stone. Occasionally, we might need to drop a module, for instance if there is insufficient demand for it from students; but, equally, there is a chance that a few other modules not listed here might end up getting added to the list. The timings, i.e. whether a module is taught in the first or the second semester, are also subject to possible revision: but the final provision should end up looking pretty close to this. Each of these modules is worth 20 credits, except where specified.

 

Both semesters:

  • General Philosophy (40 credits).

 

First semester:

  • Aesthetics
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Greek Philosophical Texts I: Plato (note: presupposes some competence in the ancient Greek language)
  • Greek Philosophy I: Plato
  • Indian Philosophy I: The Orthodox Schools
  • Metaphysics
  • Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Biology
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Psychology I
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Political Philosophy
  • Set Theory (note: presupposes some competence in basic symbolic logic)
  • Theory of Grammar

 

Second semester:

  • Epistemology II
  • Ethics of Science & Technology
  • Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
  • Greek Philosophical Texts II: Aristotle (note: presupposes some competence in the ancient Greek language)
  • Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle
  • Greek Philosophy III: Special Topics (note: the topic for 2012-13 will probably be Neoplatonism)
  • Indian Philosophy II: The Heterodox Schools
  • Kant I: Critique of Pure Reason
  • Kant II: Moral Philosophy
  • Mathematical Logic (note: presupposes some competence in basic symbolic logic)
  • Medieval Philosophy
  • Modal Logic (note: presupposes some competence in basic symbolic logic)
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Mind II: Special Topics
  • Philosophy of Physics
  • Philosophy of Psychology II
  • Theory of Meaning

FORMAT AND ASSESSMENT
Mostly taught through lectures and seminars; assessed through coursework and/or examinations plus a dissertation.

MODULES
More information on typical programme modules.
NB it cannot be guaranteed that all modules are offered in any particular academic year.

Topics In The Philosophy Of Medicine - Required
Module code: 7AAN4095
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 40
Semester:  Full-year 
Teaching pattern: 

1 two-hour weekly lecture.


Assessment:  written examination/s;  coursework; 
Formative assessment: 3 x 2,000-word essays; Summative assessment: 1 x 3-hour end of year examination.

NB From 2013-14, this module will be replaced by two 20 credit modules:
  • 7AAN2054 Philosophy of Medicine
  • 7AAN2058 Perspectives on Death & Killing

 

This module aims to provide an understanding of the central problems of contemporary Philosophy of Medicine. The specific problems under consideration might typically include: biological accounts of health and disease; health as a natural value; introspection and knowledge of bodily states.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/modules/level7/7aan4095.aspx


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