Overview

The Philosophy graduate program at the University of Maryland is structured to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary analytic philosophy, as well as the tools and skills to produce innovative research of their own.

Key features

Faculty members have a wide range of research interests in areas throughout contemporary analytic philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, the history of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and decision, game, and social choice theory.

Many members of the Department reach across disciplines to work with colleagues from other excellent departments and schools at Maryland, such as Computer Science, Economics, Government and Politics, Linguistics, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Stoic Ethics and Moral Psychology
Contemporary Political Philosophy
Representation and Metarepresentation
Affect, Decision-Making, and Metacognition
Conditionals and Conditional Reasoning
Counterfactuals between Probability and Semantics

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-11 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

College Park, United States

Disciplines

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Other requirements

General requirements

The following items are normally required of all candidates:

A completed application form, containing a short 'statement of purpose'.
Official transcripts of all degrees obtained or in the process of being obtained.
Three letters of support from previous instructors.
TOEFL examination results (for applicants whose first language isn't English)
Writing sample in philosophy (normally one or two essays, totaling no more than twenty to twenty-five pages).

You have the option to submit your GRE exam results, but this is not required.

Tuition Fees

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56340 USD / year

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Out-of-State

56340 USD / year

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In-State

26340 USD / year

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Living costs

College Park

United States

1676 - 2838 USD / month

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