Taught MA programmes
Postgraduate
- PG Admissions
- Taught MA programmes
- MA modules
- Extended MA
- Jean Hogan MA Memorial Scholarship and MA Memorial Essay Prize
- MA in Philosophy (General Programme)
- MA in Contemporary European Philosophy
- MA in Ethics: Theory and Practice
- MA in Consciousness and Embodiment
- WiP (Work in Progress) Seminars | 2023
- MA in Philosophy and Literature
- MA in Philosophy and Public Affairs
- MSc in Cognitive Science
- Research PhD
- The challenge of the PhD
- PG Funding Opportunities
Taught MA programmes in Philosophy
UCD Philosophy offers a number of different MA/MSc Programmes. Each programme (with the exception of Cognitive Science) requires the completion of 6 taught graduate modules and a dissertation of 12-15,000 words. This can be done over the course of one year as a full-time student or over two years as a part-time student.
1. Pure Philosophy MA Programmes
- Students on the General Programme choose any six modules from the available Philosophy modules.
- The MA in Contemporary European Philosophy requires the student to select FOUR modules in Contemporary European philosophy, and TWO modules from the remaining MA modules.
2. Interdisciplinary programmes
- The MA in Consciousness and Embodiment is an interdiscipilinary MA on the topic of embodied consciousness and cognition. It requires the student to select SIX modules from a specified list of MA modules on offer in Philosophy, Psychology and Computer Science.
- The MA in Ethics, Theory and Practice requires students to complete modules in Moral Theory and Applied Ethics, select THREE more modules from a list of Philosophy modules with ethical content as well as ONE from a list of Ethics modules provided by other disciplines.
- The MA in Philosophy and Literature requires the student to select THREE modules from a list of four specific Philosophy MA modules, and THREE modules from a list offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and the School of English, Drama and Film.
- The MA in Philosophy and Public Affairs requires the student to select THREE modules from specific Philosophy MA modules, and THREE modules from a list offered by the various Schools in the College of Social Sciences and Law.
3. Participation in other MA programmes
- The School of Philosophy contributes to the MSc in Cognitive Science.