MA in Philosophy
Programme Leader
The MA in Philosophy at the University of Greenwich aims to provide students with an attractive, coherent and innovative programme, reflecting the expertise and interests of an enthusiastic and dedicated group of research active philosophers.
The programme is currently offered on a part-time (2 year) basis and is divided into three stages:
- Classical philosophy: an in depth study of the central texts of Spinoza and Kant
- Modern philosophy: a focussed study of key texts by a number of dominant twentieth century philosophers, including Bergson, Deleuze, Foucault, Nietzsche, Irigaray and Lyotard.
- Dissertation. An extended philosophical investigation conducted under the supervision of one of the philosophy teaching team.
The MA in Philosophy at Greenwich has a number of distinctive characteristics:
- The unique opportunity to consider in depth the Kant-Spinoza relation, particularly as it has been implicitly and explicitly pursued by some of their key successors, which has emerged in recent years as, arguably, the key encounter in contemporary philosophy.
- The benefit of a strong developmental structure, in which students are prepared for their study of the philosophers considered in the ‘modern philosophy’ phase of the programme by courses on key philosophers in the preceding ‘classical philosophy’ modules, ensures that the former are placed in an appropriate and solid philosophical context.
- The opportunity to work with a team of dedicated and enthusiastic tutors in an up-coming philosophy department (referred to by the external philosophy assessor in a recent validation event as providing courses ‘in the vanguard of contemporary thought’).
- The benefit of studying using the technique of ‘immanent reading’, involving the close and careful study of primary texts in which their specific problematic, conceptual vocabulary and complexities are allowed to unfold before being referred to secondary material or to the imposition of extraneous philosophical frameworks and projects.
Course tutors:
Dr Mick Bowles
BA (Warwick), MA (Essex), PhD (Essex)
Research Areas. Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Deleuze.
Dr Kath Jones
BA (Warwick), MA (Chicago), PhD (Warwick)
Research Areas. Lyotard, Freud, Foucault, feminist theory, philosophy of desire and the body, Surveillance studies.
Dr Matt Lee
BA (Wolverhampton), MA (Sussex), PhD (Sussex)
Research Areas. Deleuze, Kant, Wittgenstein, Quine, McDowell; Empiricism, Holism, sociality and constructionism
Dr Jim Urpeth
BA (East Anglia), PhD (Essex)
Research Areas. Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Naturalism after Kant, the ontology of affectivity, immanence and sublimity.
For information on fees and details of how to apply, see our online prospectus.
For general enquiries, email humanities-pg@gre.ac.uk