Masters Degree in Philosophy

The Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) is a postgraduate research degree. This section provides a focused qualified masters program for graduates with a setting in Philosophy. The M.A in Philosophy can be considered either one year full-time or two year part-time. An M. Phil may be honored to graduate students, after finishing some years of unique research but earlier than the protection of a dissertation and can provide as a temporary enrollment for a Doctor of Philosophy.

The Master's Degree in Philosophy course has two important achievements: 1) to provide students the chance to study more regarding philosophy and 2) to allow students to concern to top-ranked doctoral courses in philosophy or in other grounds. The course provides students an essential foundation in the main fields of philosophy. Even though the does not provide detach paths, students can focus in the exacting strong point of the department: metaphysics and epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, history of modern philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy and gender, and philosophy of law. 

General Benefits of a Philosophical Education:

The program at IUS comprises attractive courses in general philosophy, ethics and logic, added classes in the history of philosophy, and higher level classes in such fields as symbolic logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of region, theories of knowledge, and bioethics are also provided. Appraisals center on letters by the large philosopher. The objectives of this course are as follows:

1. Comprehension and Interpretation: During the learning of philosophy in IUS, students should enhance their abilities to know and to repeat correctly in diverse words locations or disagreements with which they at first deviate or which are completely new to them.
2. Analytical Reasoning: Students should be capable to make differences which are useful for accepting and evaluating compound positions, arguments, or problems.
3. Synthetically Reasoning:  Students should progress their knowledge of the significant of hold logical and incorporated outlooks. They should increase abilities in arranging and incorporating their ideas in a regular way.
4. Critical Thinking: Students should increase autonomy of idea during which they receive liability for accepting and evaluating thoughts in alert, responsible manners.  Skills in Evaluation: Students should develop their skill to formulate consistent judgments on such subjects as ethical and visual partialities and to provide strong arguments to hold up their positions.

Course Structure of the M. Phil Program:

There are two main parts to the degree course, each of which gives to the learning aims.

1. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Applied Biological Anthropology Course: This interior course is taken by all M. Phil students in the Michaela’s Term only and cover up the main subjects enclosed in practical biological anthropology. The program is intended to offer students with a wide education in the different areas of knowledge. The collective merge of lectures, seminars and practical present the student with the chance to connect greatly with the theme. 
2. Each and every student finishes a theory, of up to 20,000 words in duration. In management with their supervisor, students select a subject within a division of practical biological anthropology that can be written-up in the structure of a theory in the program of the year.