• The Master’s degree programme in Philosophy builds and strengthens students’ skills and knowledge, enabling them to competently engage with philosophical questions. Students learn to conduct independent philosophical research and develop their specialist profile.
  • The department particularly supports students to develop an analytically differentiated understanding of philosophical debates, thereby encouraging them to engage with both traditional and contemporary solutions and arguments to develop an understanding of their various merits and drawbacks.
  • Students of the Master’s degree programme in philosophy also learn how to justify their own conclusions using informed arguments. They develop the skills required to present these in a clear and understandable way, and can articulate them in both spoken and written formats.
  • The Master’s degree programme in philosophy at Heidelberg University focuses on the history of philosophy via the study of classical texts, and on systematic philosophical questions such as metaphysics, the theory of science or the theory of language.