Philosophy of Medicine & Psychiatry

Year 1 Required Modules

You are required to take:

• Philosophy of Medicine (20 credits)

• The Concept of Mental Disorder (20 credits)

• Dissertation (60 credits) - 10,000 - 12,000 words

If you are a part-time student, you will write your dissertation in your second year.

If you are a full-time student, you will take 80 credits from a range of optional modules, outlined in the list below.

If you are a part-time student, you will take between 20 and 40 credits from this list in your first year, and then 40 to 60 credits in your second, to total 80 credits over the two years.

The list may include:

• Aesthetics (20 credits)
• Early Modern Philosophy (20 credits)
• Epistemology (20 credits)
• Epistemology II: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Ethics (20 credits)
• Ethics II: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Ethics of Science & Technology (20 credits)
• First-Order Logic (20 credits)
• Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (20 credits)
• Foundations of Phenomenology (20 credits)
• Gender & Philosophy (20 credits)
• General Philosophy (40 credits)
• Greek Philosophy I: Plato (20 credits)
• Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle (20 credits)
• Greek Philosophy III: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Indian Philosophy I: The Orthodox Schools (20 credits)
• Indian Philosophy II: The Heterodox Schools (20 credits)
• Kant I: Critique of Pure Reason (20 credits)
• Kant II: Moral Philosophy (20 credits)
• Mathematical Logic: Limitative Results (20 credits)
• Medieval Philosophy (20 credits)
• Metaphysics (20 credits)
• Metaphysics II (20 credits)
• Methodology of the History of Philosophy (20 credits)
• Modal Logic (20 credits)
• Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Biology (20 credits)
• Philosophy, Literature and Method (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Language (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Mathematics (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Mind (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Mind II: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Physics (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Psychology I (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Psychology II (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Religion (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Science (20 credits)
• Political Philosophy (20 credits)
• Political Philosophy II: Special Topics (20 credits)
• Set Theory (20 credits)
• Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy (20 credits)
• Up to 40 credits from a range of master’s modules offered across King’s College London including modules in the MSc in Mental Health, Ethics and Law (Concepts of Psychiatry, Mental Health Law: The Civil Context and Mental Health Ethics (including up to 20 credits from Graduate Language Modules offered by King’s Modern Language Centre) or exceptionally at University College London or Birkbeck, subject to approvals

If you have no background in philosophy we will strongly encourage you to take the General Philosophy module.

We review the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant courses of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.