Our Philosophy, Logic and Artificial Intelligence MASc explores reasoning and its philosophical foundations from the perspective of logic and artificial intelligence.
Logic is the area of inquiry which begins by considering the idea of an argument whose reasoning is water-tight. Since philosophy consists in giving and assessing arguments, logic has always been a core area of philosophy, for philosophers to both draw upon and also to study.
To systematise the key ideas in logic, we need to shift into a more formal register, adopting the tools of mathematics and computer science. And those tools have also led to the creation of various techniques in artificial intelligence, providing us with a potential model of learning and non-water-tight reasoning.
You will graduate with a range of extremely employable specific and transferable skills. This will position you well to work in interdisciplinary industrial positions or to undertake graduate research.
Specific skills: Graduates will understand topics related to artificial intelligence, including machine learning and reasoning. This sort of knowledge will equip you for a range of jobs in the technological sector, especially related to artificial intelligence.
Transferable skills: Graduates will have developed analytical and critical skills and abstract but applicable problem-solving skills, such as rigorous reasoning, programming, and the design of efficient processes, with an emphasis on understanding formal tools.
As this course is quite new, graduate destination information is not yet available. However, graduates from this MASc, will have exceptional skills and expertise, preparing them for a wide range of careers.
Recent alumni of taught graduate courses in the department have gone on to work in the fields of teaching or other educational activities (14.3%), academic research and HE (11.4%), publishing, journalism, or translation (8.6%) and policy and government (5.7%). They have gone on to work for employers such as the Houses of Parliament, the NHS, for UK and European universities, the Museum of London and the Metropolitan Police Service.*
Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of UK and EU graduates in the 2018–2024 cohorts.