UMD’s MA in Philosophy provides students with advanced training in logic, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. The program encourages original argumentation, interdisciplinary research, and engagement with both analytic and continental traditions. Students learn to critically evaluate moral theories, metaphysical claims, and the foundations of scientific knowledge. Graduates pursue teaching, policy, law, or doctoral studies in philosophy.
Defending or critiquing compatibilist accounts of free will and determinism
Developing a modal logic framework to explore necessity and possibility
Analyzing the ethics of AI and autonomous decision-making systems
Critique of utilitarianism through the lens of care ethics
Comparative analysis of consciousness in materialist and dualist frameworks
Constructing a defense of epistemic contextualism in knowledge attribution
Philosophical implications of quantum mechanics on metaphysical realism
Study of personal identity theories in memory-based models
Metaethical analysis of moral realism vs. moral relativism
Interpretation of Nietzsche’s perspectivism in light of postmodern critique
Designing a philosophy curriculum for secondary school logic education
Comparing existentialist views on authenticity in Sartre and Kierkegaard
Thought experiment development on the ethics of time travel
Exploration of phenomenology and embodied cognition
Assessment of just war theory in contemporary conflicts
Philosophy of science project on theory-ladenness of observation
Study of the role of intuition in moral epistemology
Analysis of feminist epistemologies and standpoint theory
Critique of identity-based political theory using analytic frameworks
Developing a formal logic tutorial using interactive software
Explore truth, knowledge, and morality through structured reasoning and philosophical depth at UMD.
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