Curriculum

Entry Requirements

Look carefully at the entry requirements of the courses.

Core Seminars

The aim of the course is to develop students’ ability to engage in a sustained, critical, and systematic manner with several pivotal texts, to consolidate their knowledge of the philosophical traditions in which these texts are central, to gain insight into relevant methodologies in other fields and to engage in discussion across the boundaries between the philosophical sub-disciplines, and to develop an independent point of view on the philosophical issues raised in these texts.

Year 1, Block 1-2
FRRMV19001   Core Seminar 1

Year 1, Block 3-4
FRRMV19002   Core Seminar 2

Research Colloquium

Year 1, Year Course
FRRMV16005   Research Colloquium Year 1

Year 2, Year Course
FRRMV17001   Research Colloquium Year 2 

You must complete at least 4 Topics Seminars. The courses are offered biannually on an alternating basis.

Courses offered in even-numbered years

• Block 1
  • FRRMV16008  -  Topics in Metaphysics
  • FRRMV16009  -  Topics in the Philosophy of Human Rights
  • FRRMV16010  -  Topics in Early Modern Philosophy
• Block 2
  • FRRMV16011  -  Topics in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
  • FRRMV16012  -  Topics in Hellenistic Philosophy
  • FRRMV16013  -  Topics in Moral Psychology
  • FRRMV22001  -  Topics in Ethics of Technology
• Block 3
  • FRRMV22002  -  Topics in Philosophy of Action 

Courses, offered in uneven-numbered years

• Block 1
  • FRRMV17002  -  Topics in  Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
  • FRRMV17003  -  Topics in Philosophy of Language and Logic
  • FRRMV17004  -  Topics in Social and Political Philosophy
• Block 2
  • FRRMV17005  -  Topics in Ethical Theory
  • FRRMV17006  -  Topics in German Idealism
  • FRRMV17007  -  Topics in Philosophy of Mind
  • FRRMV22001  -  Topics in Ethics of Technology

Students may count any MA-level course as electives, in particular, any RMA Philosophy “Topics Seminars” or “Research School Seminars” or “Interdisciplinary Research Area” courses (beyond those required), and the courses listed below. MA-level courses not on this list can be included administratively in their study programme.

Block 2

AEMV16007       Sustainable world
AEMV16005       Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine
AEMV16006       Economic Ethics

Block 3

WBMV05003      Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Block 4

FRRMV16015     20th-Century German Philosophy
WBMV13005      Logic and Computation

Internship, Block 1,2,3,4

FRRMV16019    Teaching Internship in Philosophy
FRRMV16018     Research Internship in Philosophy

For your convenience you can find on this site which RMA courses of the Faculty of Humanities are possible as elective within your specific RMA program and the (possible) conditions to participate in these courses.

Students complete at least 5 EC from the following courses:

Block 3

FRRMV16014     History and Philosophy of Objectivity
ECRMITT            Think Tank Institutions
FRRMV16017     Digital Ethics

Note that Topics Seminars beyond the required 20 EC can be counted towards satisfying the “Research School Seminar” Requirement. 

OFRM14001    Research School Seminar Year 1
OFRM14002    Research School Seminar Year 2

FRRMV17009     Tutorial 1
FRRMV17010     Tutorial 2

The RMA thesis is a scholarly text in which students are expected to contribute, on the basis of independent research, to a debate within their sub-discipline. It is structured around a central research question to which it provides an answer. In the Thesis, Philosophy students develop a sustained analysis of a focussed philosophical problem, and in the process further strengthen their ability to work independently. The thesis should be written in correct and clear English. It will normally be 16.000 to 32.000 words long and may not exceed 40.000 words (including notes and bibliography).

FRRMV17008     Thesis Research Master Philosophy

Read more about the Master's thesis.