Thesis

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

PhD students write annual reports to their supervisors and participate in postgraduate conferences, for which they must present a lecture each year. The dialog with the supervisor helps to adjust lines of thought, adopt writing strategies, refine methodologies, and anticipate and develop controversies and interpretative schemes. The individual work and supervision (face-to-face or online) are of great importance. This course’s tutorial model allows for a specialized and non-scattered research, an easier contact with the supervisor and the possibility to carry out versatile research work.

Learning Outcomes

The PhD course in Philosophy has no curricular component and is aimed at the acquisition of skills foreseen in section 28 of the Decree-Law 74/2006 of 24 March, as currently worded, namely by attempting to develop: the understanding of the scientific domain of the dissertation; research competences, skills and the mastery of research methods; the ability to conceive, plan, adjust and carry out a significant research following the demands posed by the academic quality and integrity standards; conditions for the production of original research work that contributes to the broadening of the frontiers of knowledge and is worthy of national and international exposure.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

In a tutorial course, all professors from the Department of Philosophy supervise the research of the PhD students, who send their professors a work plan on subjects such as: advanced topics in Ancient Philosophy; advanced topics in Medieval Philosophy; advanced topics in Modern Philosophy; advanced topics in Contemporary Philosophy; advanced topics in Theoretical and Practical Philosophy. It should be highlighted that a growing number of Portuguese and foreign candidates from Portuguese-speaking countries are searching for the specific state-of-the-art training profile offered by this course in the fields of ethics, social and political philosophy, deconstruction, phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, theory of systems and argumentation (some of these training offers are unique in Portugal). Within the context of these training offers, students are guided to follow their own training profile (choice of subject, participation in scientific meetings, scientific production).

Head Lecturer(s)

Mário Avelino Santiago Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

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