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Postgraduate Study in Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy at Stirling is one of the top rated research departments in the UK (see here for the details of our performance in the 2008 Research Assessment Excercise). The Department provides a strong, stimulating and supportive environment for individual researchers, staff and research students.

Research is intentionally concentrated within the analytical tradition, broadly conceived, thus giving a cohesive identity and focus to the Department's research activity. Particular areas of research strength, in which the Department specially welcomes applications, include:

• Legal, Moral and Social Philosophy
• Epistemology and the Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Logic and Language
• History of Early Analytical Philosophy

 

Since September 2008 our graduate teaching has been presented in the context of the fully merged St Andrews-Stirling Philosophy Graduate Programme (SASP). The SASP Programme brings together the strengths of the two leading research departments in Scotland to offer a range of expertise that competes with the best graduate programmes internationally.  Students within the programme are registered at, and full members of, both universities. 

In the foundation year of the SASP Programme students work for the MLitt. This involves two semesters of coursework, followed by a dissertation over the following summer (the six modules of coursework alone qualify a student for the Graduate Diploma).  The coursework modules include three core modules, intended to provide a thorough grounding across the main areas of contemporary philosophy, and three optional modules.  The wide choice of options offered makes it is possible for students to concentrate their options in particular region of the subject, e.g. epistemology and the philosophy of mind, or philosophy of logic and language, or to maintain a broad spread. 

The MLitt provides an excellent basis for MPhil or PhD research within the programme, which may be supervised by staff at either or both of the two universities, according to the student’s project.  The MPhil requires a further one year; the normal period of study for the PhD is three years.

See here for full details of the SASP programme including application procedure.

 

Initial inquiries about postgraduate study can be made to:

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	Philip Ebert Tutor for Graduate Studies Department of Philosophy University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland, UK.
	Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 477551
	Fax: + 44 (0) 1786 466233
	Email: Philip Ebert