The University of Sheffield
Department of Philosophy

MA Modules for 2012-13

Our MA students come from a range of backgrounds and can take different routes through the MA.  The Director of Graduate Studies will advise you on what is best for you and which modules might be most suitable.  There is also flexibility over the year, allowing you to change your plans as your interests develop.

This list may vary slightly from year to year due to staff changes and so on.  From 2013 we plan to increase the number of modules specifically for MA students.  We will introduce a new MA module in the History of Philosophy, and a Philosophical Foundations module intended for students relatively new to the subject.  The present Politics and Value module will be replaced by one module for Politics and another for Value.  We will also be introducing a highly flexible Independent Research module, which may (but need not) go together with one of the department's many informal reading groups.

Autumn Semester Spring Semester
PHI6450 Hegel & His Critics PHI6430 Epistemology
PHI 6023 Film and Philosophy  PHI 6850 Desires of One's Own 
PHI 6500 Pragmatism PHI 6362 Understanding Moral Obligation 
PHI 6320 Metaphysics  PHI 6660 Philosophy of Psychology 
PHI6364 Philosophy of Law  PHI 6590 Feminism 
PHI 6630 Philosophical Problems 1: Contemporary Political Theory PHI 6640 Philosophical Problems 2: Just War Theory
PHI 6018 Philosophy of Sex PHI6820 Advanced Logic
PHI6365 Values: Ethical & Epistemic PHI6710 Aristotle
PHI6750 The Imagination PHI6367 Necessary Beings
PHI6150 Kant PHI6366 Plato's Symposium
PHI 6670 Mind and Language seminar
PHI6690 Politics & Value Seminar
PHI6680 Metaphysics & Epistemology Seminar
PHI6016 Cognitive Studies Seminar
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In Spring, students intending to go on to do the PhD take PHI6700 PhD Proposal module, for which there is a series of seminars on Research and Research Methods in Autumn

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Research Seminars

These modules are taught as group seminars, and so require more independent work; they are therefore advised for those with a philosophy undergraduate degree, and/or those wishing to go on to do the PhD.

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Autumn Semester
PHI 6670 Mind and Language seminar
PHI 6680 Metaphysics and Epistemology seminar
PHI 6690 Politics and Value seminar
PHI 6016 Cognitive Studies seminar

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The following modules are taught at a less advanced level, and so may be helpful to those students who are coming into the MA from outside philosophy; up to two of these modules may be chosen:

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Autumn Semester Spring Semester
PHI 6020 Philosophy of Mind PHI 6050 Descartes & the Empiricists
PHI 6160 Philosophy of Art & Literature PHI 6110 Theory of Knowledge
PHI 6030 Formal Logic PHI6841 Political Philosophy
PHI 6040 Ethics PHI 6204 Ethics (JL)
PHI6080 Political Philosophy PHI6780 Plato
PHI 6420 Philosophy of Science PHI 6010 Reference and Truth
PHI 6790 The Rationalists PHI6225 Metaphysics
PHI6224 Kant's Ethics
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