Philosophy

The PhD Philosophy at Central European University (CEU) provides top-level up-to-date training in different areas in philosophy in order to prepare students for academic life (attending conferences, participating in research projects, and publishing in professional journals), to enable them to teach philosophy at university level, and to do independent research in different fields of philosophy.

Key Facts

• In their first year, doctoral students have the status ofProbationary Doctoral Candidates. They participate in the life of the department, attend courses offered by the department and write a first year paper. At the end of the first year of their studies, probationary doctoral candidates take the oral comprehensive examination. In the examination, they present their thesis plan and answer questions concerning their plan and first year paper.

• Students in PhD Philosophy at Central European University (CEU) who successfully complete their course work and pass the comprehensive examination receive the status ofDoctoral Candidates.
• Doctoral candidates have a supervisor with whom they regularly meet and who supervises their work. During their second and third year, students are primarily engaged in independent research under the guidance of their supervisor.

• Doctoral candidates participate in the academic life of the department and attend seminars, lectures and programs, including the annual in-house graduate conference and the biennial international graduate conference, which they organise.

• In the second and third years, students attend the Doctoral Seminar, which provides a forum to acquire professional skills and receive continuous feedback on their work. Students can submit their dissertation at the end of the third year of their studies and not later than six years after the date of their original enrolment.

Courses include:

• Moral and Political Philosophy:Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals;

• Political Obligation;

• Normative Ethics Metaphysics,Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind:Intuition and Knowledge;

• Substance, Ontology, Mind;

• Atomism.