MA in Philosophy (in English)
Why Philosophy at Ibn Haldun University?
Ibn Haldun University Philosophy Department provides multiple and pluralistic master's programs, encompassing Ancient, Islamic, Turkish, and Western (Continental) philosophical traditions. Students will have the opportunity to specialize in any field of philosophy by selecting related courses. This graduate program is designed as an initial phase for the doctorate program planned to be open soon. With its multi-directional formation, the program aims to educate and give vision to candidates, enabling them to analyze Islamic philosophy not only as a historical phenomenon but also research in the context of contemporary philosophy. Philosophy Department enhances its scientific strategy accordingly.
Esteemed Academics
One-on-One Education
Boutique University
Student-Centered Approach
On-Campus Dormitories for Female and Male Students
Sports Center
Supportive Research and Project Ecosystem
Head of The Department:
Prof. Enis Doko
Scope of the Program:
The program brings together theories and perspectives arising from the history of philosophy and taking into account the classical and modern debates. In this respect, the program is designed to provide participants with in-depth background on the history of philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Turkish thought and philosophy, and Continental philosophy, including the phenomenologic methods. Some of the research areas are:
- History of Philosophy
- Contemporary Philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Islamic Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Turkish Philosophy
- Mystical or Sufi Philosophy
Who Should Participate?
This program may exceptionally be useful for the following:
- those who have some philosophical background, but seek to increase their skills in different areas of philosophy
- those who have an interest in philosophy and want to improve their interest with an intellectual profession
- those who are just graduated from universities and are looking for career opportunities in different fields;
- those who wish to pursue an academic career.
The following lesson plan is for informational purposes only. Click here to access the Bologna information.
Click here to access the course information package.
| IBN HALDUN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES PHILOSOPHY (IN ENGLISH) WITH THESIS PROGRAM COURSE PLAN | |||||
| I. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| PHIL 501 | Research Methods and Publication Ethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Language Courses | |||||
| Total Credit | 12 | 32 | |||
| II. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| PHIL 500 | Seminar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| PHIL… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Language Courses | |||||
| Total Credit | 9 | 32 | |||
| III. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| PHIL 599 | Master’s Thesis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Total Credit | 0 | 30 | |||
| IV. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| PHIL 599 | Master’s Thesis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Total Credit | 0 | 30 | |||
| Overall Total Credit | 21 | 124 | |||
| COMPULSORY COURSES | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| PHIL 500 | Seminar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| PHIL 501 | Research Methods and Publication Ethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| DEPARTMENTAL ELECTIVE COURSES | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| PHIL 504 | Advanced Studies in Contemporary Philosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 508 | Religion and Ecology | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 538 | Philosophy of Kalam | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 539 | Environmental Ethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 555 | Metaethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 559 | Bioethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| TUR-IS PHIL 510-539 TURKISH AND ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY | |||||
| PHIL 510 | Islamic Philosophy I: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 511 | Theories of Knowledge in the First Classical Period | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 512 | Theories of Knowledge in the Second Classical Period | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 513 | Suhrawardy and Ishraqi Philosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 514 | Ethical Theories in Islamic Tradition | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 515 | Mutazilite Thinkers | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 516 | Farabi | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 517 | Ibn Sina | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 518 | Ghazali | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 519 | Tahafut Tradition | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 520 | Averroes and Averroism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 521 | Major Andalusian Philosophers | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 522 | Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 523 | Critical Philosophy in Islamic Thought | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 524 | Contemporary Islamic Thought: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 525 | Akbarite School | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 526 | Classical Turkish Philosophy I: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 527 | Classical Turkish Philosophy II: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 528 | Kemalpaşazade | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 529 | Taşköprüzade | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 530 | Contemporary Turkish Thought: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 531 | Early Turkic Thought And Mythology: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 532 | Theories of Metaphysics in the First Classical Period | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 533 | Theories of Metaphysics in the Second Classical Period | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 534 | Islamic Philosophy II: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 535 | Felsefenin Temel Sorunları ve Tarihi | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 537 | Philosophy of Death and Afterlife | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| ANC PHIL 540-559 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY | |||||
| PHIL 540 | Early Greek Philosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 541 | Plato's Earlier Dialogues | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 542 | Plato's Middle Dialogues | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 543 | Plato's Later Dialogues | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 544 | Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 545 | Aristotle’s Metaphysics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 546 | Plotinus | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 547 | Ethical Theories in Ancient Philosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 548 | Nietzsche | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 551 | Philosophy of Time | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 552 | Chinese Philosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 553 | Philosophy of Self | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 554 | Neurophilosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 557 | Levinas | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 558 | Philosophy in Late Antiquity | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| WEST PHIL 560-579 WESTERN PHILOSOPHY | |||||
| PHIL 560 | Medieval Christian Philosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 561 | Ethical Theories in Western Philosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 562 | Descartes | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 563 | Leibniz | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 564 | Kant | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 565 | Hegel and Husserl in Phenomenology | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 566 | Hegel | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 567 | Hume | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 568 | Husserl | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 569 | Husserl's Logical Investigations | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 570 | Husserl's Ideas | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 571 | Husserl's Cartesian Meditations | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 572 | Husserl: Inner Time Consciousness | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 573 | Heidegger | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 574 | Marxism and Critical Theory | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 575 | Rousseau and Philosophy of Enlightment | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 576 | German Idealism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 577 | Continental Rationalists | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 578 | British Empiricists | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| DSTH PHIL 580-598 DISCIPLINES AND THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY | |||||
| PHIL 580 | Theory of Knowledge: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 581 | Metaphysics: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 582 | Aesthetics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 583 | Philosophy of Biology | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 584 | The Problem of Evil in the History of Philosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 585 | Foundations of Democracy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 586 | Philosophy of Language: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 587 | Philosophy of Civilization | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 588 | Pantheism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 589 | Philosophy of Science | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 590 | Political Philosophy: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 591 | Moral Philosophy: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 592 | Historical Sources of Western Thought | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 593 | Philosophy of Religion: Advanced Course | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 594 | Issues in Science and Religion | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 596 | Comparative History of Philosophy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 597 | Philosophy of Anthropology | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| PHIL 598 | Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |