Masters Degrees (Political Philosophy)

The MSc Human Rights is a unique multidisciplinary programme that provides a concentrated year-long engagement with the foundations of human rights and key contemporary human rights issues. Read more

At Sussex, we encourage diverse approaches to philosophical thinking. Our Philosophy MA is interdisciplinary, allowing you to stretch your intellectual interests through our links with other departments. Read more

What is consciousness? What is the relation between truth and democracy? If our world is mechanistic, how could chances ever exist? Students will further train the philosophical knowledge and skills they developed in their Bachelor's degree programme and are encouraged to engage in philosophical discussions at a deeper level. Read more

The Studies in Philosophy and Religion MRes Distance Learning Programme is scheduled for a duration of one year (full-time) or two years (part-time). Read more

Governments and international institutions regulate our lives, from what we wear in public to what we say about others. This raises profound questions about how we relate to each other and to our government. Read more

The MSc Philosophy and Public Policy provides a solid foundation in the conceptual and normative questions underlying public policy formulation. Read more

We have teaching staff with strong research profiles in modern European philosophy. They have an interest in interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Read more

 We have teaching staff with strong research profiles in modern European philosophy. They have an interest in interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Read more

2nd in the UK for research in Philosophy according to the Times Higher Education's ranking of the latest REF results (2021). 4* for our research impact according to the Times Higher Education's ranking of the latest REF results (2021). Read more

Explore the ethical, economic and political problems facing health policy in the UK and globally by embarking on the only degree of its kind in the world. Read more

If you do not have the appropriate undergraduate preparation to embark directly on our MA Philosophy course, this nine-month Graduate Diploma in Philosophy is right for you. Read more

Philosophy at Essex takes philosophy back to its roots in everyday existential, social and political issues. Read more

The Higher Diploma in Arts (Politics) is intended for those who already have a degree and who want to study politics intensively over one academic year full-time or two academic years part-time (by day). This is a conversion course so you would not normally have studied politics to honours degree level previously. Read more

The MSc Human Rights and Politics programme provides a rigorous year-long academic engagement with critical political issues faced by international human… Read more

Political theory is the study of how we do and should think about the nature and organisation of political life and its limits. Read more