Year 1
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required Modules
You are required to write a dissertation of 12,000 words.
Optional Modules
In addition, you are required to take 120 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:
• Early Modern Philosophy (20 credits)
• Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (20 credits)
• Foundations of Phenomenology (20 credits)
• Greek Philosophy I: Plato (20 credits)
• Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle (20 credits)
• Greek Philosophy III: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Indian Philosophy I: The Orthodox Schools (20 credits)
• Indian Philosophy II: The Heterodox Schools (20 credits)
• Kant I: Critique of Pure Reason (20 credits)
• Kant II: Moral Philosophy (20 credits)
• Medieval Philosophy (20 credits)
• Nineteenth-century Continental Philosophy (20 credits)
• Twentieth-century Continental Philosophy (20 credits)
• Aesthetics (20 credits)
• Epistemology (20 credits)
• Epistemology II: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Ethics (20 credits)
• Ethics II: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Ethics of Science & Technology (20 credits)
• First-Order Logic (20 credits)
• Mathematical Logic: Limitative Results (20 credits)
• Metaphysics (20 credits)
• Metaphysics II (20 credits)
• Modal Logic (20 credits)
• Perspectives on Death & Killing (20 credits)
• Philosophy, Literature & Method (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Biology (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Language (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Medicine (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Mind (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Mind II: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Physics (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Psychology I (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Psychology II (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Religion (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Mathematics (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Science (20 credits)
• Political Philosophy (20 credits)
• Political Philosophy II: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Set Theory (20 credits)
• Topics in the Philosophy of Medicine (20 credits)
• The Concept of Mental Disorder (20 credits)
Up to 40 credits from a range of Master’s modules offered across King’s College London (including up to 20 credits from Graduate Language Modules offered by King’s Modern Language Centre) or at University College London or Birkbeck, subject to approvals.
There are a limited number of spaces available on each optional module, and you will have the opportunity to discuss your choices with your personal tutor.
King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant courses of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.