MPhil Philosophy

Newcastle University

Explore critical thinking through the assumptions of the age.We have teaching staff with strong research profiles in modern European philosophy. They have an interest in interdisciplinary research and collaboration.Our lecturers have broad philosophical interests and specialise in modern European thought.Research and supervision areasWe have teaching staff with strong research profiles in modern European philosophy. They are interested in interdisciplinary research and collaboration.Research supervision is available in the following areas:Continental philosophy and the history of European ideasVicopost-Kantian thought (including Hegel and German idealism)KierkegaardNietzschephenomenologyHermeneuticspsychoanalysisBatailleFrankfurt Schoolthe SituationistsPoststructuralism (including Deleuze, Foucault and Derrida)posthumanismpostmodernism (including Vattimo)Aestheticsphilosophy and the artsphilosophy of musicphilosophy and contemporary artphilosophy and literature (particularly Blanchot)EthicstheoreticalappliedsocialSocial and political philosophyPhilosophy and religion

Newcastle University