Course summary
Unlike most other UK Philosophy departments, we offer supervision across a wide range of topics and traditions, including both Anglo-American analytic and post-Kantian continental philosophy. Areas of study You’ll work with academics who are experts at the forefront of their subjects. Our research expertise includes:
- the thought of important figures such as Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Wittgenstein, Habermas, Frege, David Lewis, John Rawls and Tyler Burge
- mind, language, epistemology and logic
- aesthetics, including the philosophy of fiction and literature
- phenomenology and existentialism
- political philosophy.
Modules
Recent thesis topics include: Adorno and Kant; consciousness and intrinsic physical properties; contingent identity; emotion, cognition and dynamics; ethics and politics in Plato; freedom and self-consciousness; Hegel’s theory of subjectivity; intentionality, error and misrepresentation; language and meaning in Heidegger; Marx’s philosophy of law; Merleau-Ponty and the sensible; Nietzsche and art; perfectionism and liberalism; Russell’s theory of descriptions; the nature of the self; theology in Aristotle’s Metaphysics; truth and realism; Wittgenstein’s theory of the proposition.
Assessment method
Research project
Entry requirements
You’re normally expected to have a Masters degree and an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree. Your qualification should be in philosophy or a related subject area. You may also be considered for the degree if you have other professional qualifications or experience of equivalent standing.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Additional fee information
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Sponsorship information
The Department has been successful in attracting research preparation Master's quota funding via the AHRC Block Grant Partnership Scheme.
Provider information
University of Sussex
Sussex House
Brighton
BN1 9RH
Course contact details
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