Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy

The graduate program gives students who have completed an undergraduate degree (usually in philosophy) an opportunity to pursue in-depth study of a specific topic through a combination of coursework and supervised research (culminating in a Master?s thesis or doctoral dissertation). Our graduate students hail from around the world, and play a central role in the life of the Department.

What You'll Learn

Faculty at NUS Philosophy supervise graduate research on topics ranging from analytic metaphysics to applied ethics, drawing on, and often synthesizing, the philosophical traditions of China, India, and Europe. Across campus, Yale-NUS College boasts a dynamic philosophy unit with an additional eight faculty who are eligible to supervise graduate research at NUS. As a group, the NUS and affiliated Yale-NUS graduate faculty includes twenty-one philosophers actively working on projects in moral and political philosophy; metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind; Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy, and the history of Western philosophy. Some main research areas are as follows – Philosophy of Mind; Logic and Epistemology; History of Western Philosophy; Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law; Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science; Chinese Philosophy; Continental Philosophy; Indian Philosophy; Philosophy of Language and Aesthetics.

Minimum Entry Requirement

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