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This MSc course builds on your diploma studies and provides you with the opportunity to carry out an investigation into an aspect of systems thinking that is of personal or professional interest to you or conduct a more academic in-depth research project. Both routes will enable you to extend your knowledge of recent research in your chosen area and become competent in relevant research methods.

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This degree is for those who want to develop their research and analytical skills and upgrade their qualifications. It will suit anyone with appropriate entry qualifications who has a passion for philosophy and is looking for an intellectual challenge.

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This degree is for those who want to develop their research and analytical skills and upgrade their qualifications. It will suit anyone with appropriate entry qualifications who has a passion for the arts and is looking for an intellectual challenge.

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Research is at the heart of the Philosophy Department at the OU. There are nine full-time members of staff, all of whom are active researchers, who specialise in a range of subjects across the disciplines.

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The central aim of the Mind, Meaning and Rationality Research Group is to promote research in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, together with specific topics in other areas that relate closely to the themes of mind, meaning and rationality - for example, decision theory in ethics. These issues were chosen because they are important not only to philosophers, but also to people working in other disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, social psychology, economics and artificial intelligence.

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The OpenSpace Research Centre's grouping in this area explores what difference it might make - theoretically, empirically, ethically and politically - to take seriously the nonhuman dimensions of the practices and matters of concern at the heart of the social, and what this in turn might imply for our understandings of space and power. In attempting to think through these and related challenges, inspiration is taken from a wide range of sources including science and technology studies, anthropology, feminisms, philosophy, political theory, postcolonial studies, post-structuralism, and environmental studies as well as geography, and engaged empirically with topics including biosecurity, food, animalities, museums, consumption and disposal, earth processes, disasters, economies and finance, and others.

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The Philosophy Department's research and teaching interests in the area of value include: metaethics, ethical theory, moral psychology, moral epistemology, practical ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics and the theory of art.

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A one year full-time or two-years part-time course, the programme offers postgraduate teaching in ethics and social philosophy and emphasises the enhancement of skills relevant to advanced philosophical research. Course content:Students are required to take four modules, each consisting of a weekly seminar for ten weeks, then to research and submit a dissertation of up to 15000 words on a topic of their own choosing (but subject to approval by the Board of Studies).Full-time students take two modules per semester, part-time students take one.

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A one year full-time or two-year part-time course, the programme offers postgraduate teaching in topics in analytic and modern European philosophy, and emphasises the enhancement of skills relevant to advanced philosophical research. Course Content:Students are required to take four modules, each consisting of a weekly seminar for ten weeks, then to research and submit a dissertation of up to 15000 words on a topic of their own choosing (but subject to approval by the Board of Studies).Full-time students take two modules per semester, part-time students take one.

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The PhD is normally a three-year research degree, and students write a thesis of up to 80,000 words (maximum) on an agreed philosophical topic. The MPhil is normally a one-year research degree, and students write a dissertation of up to 60,000 words (maximum) on an agreed philosophical topic.

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