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Overview

Admission

Admission to the PhD programme is subject to a competitive selection process, typically announced in the spring. The official Call for Applications details the available courses, positions and grants as well as test dates, venues and examination formats.

Successful candidates are ranked on a rolling merit list that shows position allocations.

Once admitted, candidates must submit their application form to the UniGe Servizio Alta Formazione (Postgraduate Training Office) by the deadlines specified in the announcement.

Research Doctorate regulations are outlined on the page Ph.D. programmes.

The course in brief

Presentation

The FINO doctorate provides high-level training in philosophical research, with the perhaps unique feature of training students to engage with several well-characterized philosophical methodologies. The topics and research methodologies are mainly divided according to four curricula:
  • Mind, Language and Cognition
  • Ethics and Politics
  • History of Philosophy
  • Theoretical: Phenomenology, Ontology and Hermeneutics

Training Objectives.

The Ph.D. course aims to prepare students both for the competence specific to their subject area and the topic of their research, and for "soft skills" (problem solving, collaborative cooperation in groups, resilience, creativity, and time management). Through a truly interdisciplinary approach, Ph.D.s will develop:
  • knowledge related to their field of research and the methodology most appropriate to it
  • the ability to plan, organize, and develop a research project
  • the tools to publish according to the best international standards
  • the ability to respond to international research calls and to organize seminar and research activities

Professional outlets

PhDs in Philosophy can find occupations in the following areas:
  • research
  • university teaching or in high school
  • organizing information, bioethics, philosophical consulting, personnel selection, artificial intelligence,
  • publishing
  • web-managing

Given the expertise created with the development of critical thinking and forms of argumentation PhDs in philosophy are more predisposed to the new job market that has fewer and fewer fixed types of employment.
The employment rate of PHDs FINO (1 year after PhD) is 85% (three-year period 2017-2020), and there are several professional fields (research in Italy and abroad, teaching, project management, HR, crowdfunding, science dissemination).

Coordinator

Welcome to FINO!

The Northwest Philosophy Doctoral Consortium, with its four curricula and broad college, enables doctoral students to engage in research on a very broad range of topics covering the entire domain of philosophy and to pursue a genuinely interdisciplinary education for those interested in questions of applied philosophy or bordering on other social-historical or scientific disciplines, according to the standards of the international community.

Dedicated site

For more information, visit the site dedicated to this doctorate.