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University of Tartu MA in Philosophy in practice
University of Tartu

MA in Philosophy in practice

Tartu, Estonia

2 Years

English

Full time

15 Mar 2025

01 Sep 2025

EUR 4,000 / per year *

On-Campus

* Tuition-waiver scholarships available

Introduction

PREPARATION We seek candidates from diverse disciplinary backgrounds - this significantly broadens the range of viewpoints each student in the programme is exposed to and the skillset they can draw upon in class. However, this diversity makes it especially important to build a common base-set of knowledge, skills and values in each group of students. The Start Module ensures that everyone who enters the master's programme finishes their first semester having received significant feedback on their writing, oral argumentation and communication skills, and having acquired a solid overview of three broad areas of philosophy: ethics and epistemology, mind and language, and selected topics in the history of philosophy. These courses start basic but quickly advance to material that will be new even to students who have graduated from a bachelor's programme in philosophy.

TRAINING Once you've finished the first semester, you'll be well-prepared to begin courses from the Philosophy in Application Module and the Diversification Module.

The Philosophy in Application Module contains courses that have been specifically designed to teach philosophy in application to challenges facing the world today: they have been designed to make it easier for students to see why and how philosophy needs to be done in order to address those challenges, and thus easier for students to identify potential internship placements and research project opportunities. Examples of the challenges addressed in these courses include:

  • how national sovereignty is to be understood when countries like China and Russia push to create a multipolar world;
  • exploration of our obligations to older and younger generations as the world ages and populations shrink;
  • the limitations of old concepts in a world saturated with artificial intelligence and automation.

The Diversification Module allows you to diversify your studies by:

  • by taking additional philosophy courses and/or
  • taking complementary non-philosophy courses that teach skills and knowledge that complement the content of the programme's philosophy courses and/or
  • studying abroad at one of our many international partners.

In this module, you choose the balance of philosophy and non-philosophy courses that best serves your plans after graduation.

APPLICATION In the final stages of the curriculum, you will apply what you've learnt from your philosophy and other courses in both:

  • the Practice Placement Module, where you'll be supported in finding and undertaking an internship;
  • the Research Project Module, where you'll complete your own original research under supervision from one of our lecturers.

You can choose whether to conduct the lion's share of your research project in your third or fourth semester: this allows those students who want to apply to graduate school to use their research project in their graduate school applications (which are usually due at the end of the third semester).

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