This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This is an independent study module with no specified curriculum. The dissertation is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake a focused and extended research project of their own devising on any topic within the study of reasoning. The dissertation involves student-directed learning and research with the aim of producing a structured and persuasive argument, demonstrating (where appropriate) a command of the technical language of philosophy, as well as knowledge derived from cognate disciplines.
A minimum of 5 hours of individual supervisions, plus group workshops
100% dissertation
Swetnam, D., Writing Your Dissertation: A Guide to Planning, Preparing and Presenting First Class Work; Further reading to be determined by the individual student in consultation with the supervisor.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
Students will have developed their skills of formulating and undertaking a research project involving the development of an argument, critical engagement with relevant literature, and the contextualisation of the issues and materials within the framework of contemporary thought on the topic;
Students will have expanded their knowledge of a focused area within the broad landscape of the contemporary study of reasoning, as well as and the historical work that have shaped it;
Student will have developed their ability to undertake further advanced postgraduate research in philosophy or another discipline related to the study of reasoning
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