Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Admission Requirements

Enrolling for this study plan is possible after having obtained one of the following degrees:

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

Overview of the study plan

1. General Courses
1.1 Research project
1.2 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 40 credit units 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 6 ECTS credits.

6ECTS credits - Developing and Writing Research Proposals in Philosophy

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Research seminars

Subscribe to 30 credit units from the following list.

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

10ECTS credits - Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
10ECTS credits - Philosophical Anthropology
10ECTS credits - Contemporary Continental Philosophy
10ECTS credits - Religion and Secularisation
10ECTS credits - History and Reception of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Religion
10ECTS credits - History of Early Modern Philosophy
10ECTS credits - Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy
10ECTS credits - Religion and Secularisation
10ECTS credits - Empirical Ethics
10ECTS credits - Philosophy and Ethics of Gender, Sexuality and Diversity
10ECTS credits - Political Philosophy after Rawls: Equality, Justice and Diversity
10ECTS credits - Bio-Ethics
10ECTS credits - Media Philosophy and Media Theory
10ECTS credits - Logic
10ECTS credits - Philosophy of Biomedical and Social Sciences
10ECTS credits - Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
10ECTS credits - History and Philosophy of Science
10ECTS 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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