Philosophical Sciences

Main Campus, Milan, Italy

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24 monthsProgramme duration

PhilosophyMain Subject Area

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Programme overview

Main Subject

Philosophy

Degree

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

The Master's degree programme in Philosophical Sciences provides graduates with an in-depth knowledge of the contents and methods of philosophical investigation, while promoting specialist training in various research fields.

Without prejudice to the need for a broad and general philosophical training, two reasons call for specialization in the area of philosophical studies during the Master's programme.

Firstly, specialist training allows graduates to become aware of the specificity and complexity of problems, both theoretical and practical, as required of a professional nowadays.

Secondly, over the last decades the areas of philosophical research have become increasingly rich and diverse. Not only do they provide specific content and reasoning tools aimed at developing critical ability, they also deepen relationships with various fields of study including: psychology, linguistics, information technology, art, history, sociology, political science, anthropology, pedagogy, biology, physics, mathematics.

In addition to reflecting on itself and its methods, philosophy offers tools to question and deepen the conceptual foundations of any discipline: it reconstructs the history of theoretical notions, provides new analysis tools, questions the ethical and political implications of actions and behaviours, and it can only do so through well-defined and differentiated paths. Hence the need to structure the programme as several curricula offering diverse study paths, with a view to specialisation in philosophical research as well as to pre-professional education.

Therefore, students enrolled in the Master's degree programme in Philosophical Sciences are called to identify a research field among those proposed, to deepen their philosophical training with a rigorous and specialist approach.

To this end, the degree programme requires students to follow courses which allow them to gain a deeper understanding of their chosen field, while also exploring its multiple interactions with related and complementary disciplines. Thanks to the knowledge and skills acquired through these courses, students become fully equipped to write and discuss the final thesis at a specialist level.

To understand the learning pathway, it is worth taking a look at the key areas around which the coursework is structured: the historical dimension of philosophical thought; the theoretical, moral and aesthetic foundations of contemporaneity; the study of society in its anthropological, sociological, political, ethical and philosophical dimensions; logic, language and the theory of mind, also in relation to the developments of contemporary scientific research.

The programme ? which is divided into different curricula ? aims to produce graduates who have an extensive knowledge of philosophy and are able to use it for the following purposes:

- understanding philosophical texts in their historical contexts, using bibliographic sources and reading the critical literature;

- conducting research using theoretical, logical and epistemological tools;

- analysing and arguing different philosophical theories with a wide range of potential applications;

- discussing and assessing arguments advanced in the fields of theoretics, practice and communication;

- analysing interdisciplinary studies applicable to the humanities;

- developing well-structured arguments with various social and/or cultural applications;

- applying philosophical knowledge in different fields of human and social sciences;

- promoting the political dimension of philosophy in a variety of social settings, in order to solve problems.