The University of Sheffield
Department of Philosophy

MA Modules for 2011-12

Taught (TMA) and Research MA (RMA) students should normally select their three or four courses from those on offer below. Some of these courses are available to third-year philosophy undergraduates also, but assessment for TMA/RMA students will be on a very different basis - normally by means of one extended essay, as opposed to a shorter essay and a final exam. MA students also have their own seminar on these modules.
Autumn Semester Spring Semester
PHI 6450
Hegel & His Critics (CH)		 PHI 6500
Pragmatism (CH)
PHI 6023
Film and Philosophy (DG)		 PHI 6850
Desires of One's Own (YS)
PHI 6480
Liberty, Community and Democracy (DV)		 PHI 6362
Understanding Moral Obligation (RS)
PHI 6320
Metaphysics (EO)		 PHI 6660
Philosophy of Psychology (SL)
PHI 6710
Aristotle (SM)		 PHI 6590
Feminism (JS)
PHI 6630
Philosophical Problems A: Philosophy of Society		 PHI 6640
Philosophical Problems B: Philosophy of Mathematics
. PHI 6018
Philosophy of Sex (SC)
New Module - TBA

PHI6363 

Scepticism (KH)

The extra two modules will be confirmed towards the end of July. One will almost certainly be on Kant's Theoretical Philosophy and the other will probably be on topic in Metaphysics or Epistemology

In Spring, Research MA students can take PHI6700 PhD Proposal module, for which there is a series of seminars on Research and Research Methods in Autumn

Research Seminars (for students on Research-track MA)

Autumn Semester
PHI 6670
Mind and Language seminar (CH)
PHI 6680
Metaphysics and Epistemology seminar (EO)
PHI 6690
Politics and Value seminar (DV)
PHI 6016
Cognitive Studies seminar (GB)

Students on the Taught MA can also take up to two of the following modules

Level Two Modules
Autumn Semester Spring Semester
PHI 6020
Philosophy of Mind (SL)		 PHI 6223
Topics in Ancient Philosophy (SM)
PHI 6011
Plato (JL)		 PHI 6110
Theory of Knowledge (PF)
PHI 6030
Formal Logic (DG)		 PHI 6590
Feminism (JS)
PHI 6040
Ethics (CB)
 PHI 6204
Ethics (JL)
PHI 6050
Descartes and the Empiricists (GB)

PHI 6841
Political Philosophy (YS)
PHI 6???
Kant's Groundwork (RS)		 PHI 6010
Reference and Truth (RK)
PHI 6790
The Rationalists (EO)		 PHI 6420
Philosophy of Science (GB)
PHI 6080
Political Philosophy (SC)