Overview
About the programme
The research interests of individual Philosophy staff members are diverse and wide ranging, and are not limited to a single philosophical tradition, school or period of philosophy. The topics they pursue often drive them to engage in research that is highly interdisciplinary.
The philosophical research culture at the University of Hertfordshire is sustained by regular activities: fortnightly research seminars, delivered by prominent external speakers, both national, international and regular staff/postgraduate reading groups.
Programme Structure
The department has several major areas of concentration and strength. These include:- Ethics, broadly construed, including the relation between narrative, literature and ethics; Kantian ethics; virtue ethics; philosophical and religious aspects of love and friendship; the moral status of animals and the environment; moral agency; moral psychology.
- Metaphysics, with strengths in time, perception, consciousness, idealism and structural realism.
- Philosophy and Ethics of Information.
- Philosophy of mind, psychology and cognitive science, especially, on topics relating to information; representation; perception; consciousness; phenomenal consciousness; intersubjectivity; folk psychology and enactive, embodied, extended approaches to the mind, philosophy of AI. Research on these topics is both philosophically and empirically informed and focused.
- The work of specific thinkers, including Kierkegaard, Sellars, and Wittgenstein.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
- Part-time
- 72 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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- to apply, please email the Doctoral College
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Normally, we require applicants for PhD study to be in possession of a good honours degree (2:1 or above), and a Master's degree, in a relevant discipline.
- Please include an outline research proposal with your application. Members of academic staff will advise on the length and scope of the proposal.
Tuition Fee
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International
16750 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 16750 GBP per year during 36 months. -
National
5925 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 5925 GBP per year during 36 months.
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