Philosophy

MA

Part Time, Full Time

| Admissions status: Open

STRUCTURE OVERVIEW

Core programme content

Dissertation (60 credits).

Indicative non-core content

NB 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 Medicine
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)
Theories 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
Medieval Philosophy
Modal Logic (note: presupposes some competence in basic symbolic logic)
Perspectives on Death & Killing
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind II: Special Topics
Philosophy of Physics
Philosophy of Psychology II
Political Philosophy II: Special Topics
Theories 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.

General Philosophy - Required (certain pathways only)

Module code: 7AAN4021
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 40
Semester: Full-year
Teaching pattern: 1 weekly lecture and 1 Logic class.
Assessment: written examination/s; coursework; practical/s;
Formative assessment: 2 x 2,000-word essays, normally one in each semester, plus regular Logic exercises; Summative assessment: 1 x 3-hour end of year examination.

The module is intended for students who are converting into Philosophy at Master's level, and is designed to offer them a broad overview of the general state of play in four key branches of the discipline: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology. In essence, it will teach people who might opt to specialise in one area of Philosophy the kinds of basic things that they are likely to be expected to know about the others; as well as providing an appreciation of the interconnected, systematic nature of Philosophy as a whole. There will be a five-week block devoted to each of these four areas. In addition, students will receive training in elementary Symbolic Logic through separate classes, following the main lectures across all twenty weeks.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/modules/level7/7aan4021.aspx

KEY FACTS

Programme leader/s

Dr Jasper Reid

Awarding institution

King's College London

Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)

UK 180/ECTS 90

Duration

One year FT, two years PT, September to September.

Location

Strand Campus.

Student destinations