Application

Below you will find some essential details for students wishing to enroll in the Master Degree in Philosophical Sciences. This guide provides information concerning the first steps to be taken and the first things to know before attending classes, as well as about the following steps. Refer to the following website for more complete information:

https://scienzefilosofiche.cdl.unimi.it/en

Students are encouraged to explore the site to find the information they need. Additionally, tutors are available, and students can reach out to them for further support on anything not explicitly covered on the website, see:

https://scienzefilosofiche.cdl.unimi.it/en/programme/contact-persons

Admission to the Master Degree in Philosophical Sciences is free. Students satisfying the following requirements may access:

Qualification

Option A. Bachelor Degree (L-5 Filosofia or others), achieved at the Università degli

Studi di Milano or any other Italian University, including at least 42 ECTS credits in one or more of the following SDS (Scientific Disciplinary Sector): M-FIL/01, M-FIL/02, M-FIL/03, M-FIL/04, M-FIL/05, M-FIL/06, M-FIL/07, M-FIL/08

Option B. Bachelor Degree in Philosophy or in any other Discipline from a foreign University comparable to the Italian degree. In both cases, it is required that the academic path includes 42 ECTS obtained in subjects consistent with one or more of the following scientific-disciplinary sectors: M-FIL/01, M-FIL/02, M-FIL/03, M-FIL/04, M-FIL/05, M-FIL/06, M-FIL/07, M-FIL/08. Admission of these candidates is subordinated to the decision of the Admission Committee of the Master Degree in Philosophical Sciences, based on the curriculum evaluation and possibly including an interview aimed at assessing whether education and competence fit the program’s requirements.

In all cases, qualifications shall be uploaded during the admission procedure.

Language Requirements

A CEFR B1 (or above) level of English is required. The B1 level will be tested by SLAM (Centro Linguistico di Ateneo) during the admission process, by one of the following means:

(a) English certificate obtained up to three years before presenting the Admission request. The list of accepted certificates is available at the following website:

https://www.unimi.it/en/study/language-proficiency/placement-tests-and-english- courses/accepted-language-certificates

The certificate held must be uploaded during the admission process.

(b) English level achieved during a Bachelor's degree at the Università degli Studi di Milano by SLAM up to four years before presenting the Admission request. The certification will be

automatically attested, without the need to provide any documentation during the Admission process.

(c) Entry test issued by SLAM. Any candidate who does not possess a valid certificate, nor possess a valid level of knowledge will be summoned for a test by SLAM during the Admission procedure. Candidates who do not sit or pass the placement test will have until 31 December 2025 to obtain and submit a recognized certificate to SLAM. Students who do not meet the requirement by 31 December

2025 will not be admitted to the Master's degree programme and may not sit further tests.

You can find the available slots for the entry test at: https://www.unimi.it/en/study/language-proficiency/placement-tests-and-english- courses/english-entry-tests

Previous career

When uploading the Admission request, candidates must have acquired at least 126 ECTS credits during the previous academic career. All of the acquired ECTS credits count for meeting this Admission requirement.

Requests for credit transfer are only admissible for ECTS credits acquired in Master programs, and exclusively for credits not used to meet the admission requirements. The Admission Committee of the Master Degree may evaluate the relevance of acquired credits, including their timeliness.

Applications for admission to the Master Degree in Philosophical Sciences must be submitted via the electronic procedure. At the time of submission, candidates must:

(a) select a curriculum;

(b) document their previous academic career, including a list of sustained exams with marks received and related SDS;

(c) explicitly request the recognition of any ECTS credits previously acquired during other Master Degrees, specifying in place of which courses of the study plan in Philosophical Sciences these are proposed and providing documentation attesting

(I) the course’s titles,

(II) its SDS (Scientific Disciplinary Sector), (III) the number of ECTS credit acquired.
Missing any of the above, the Committee will not grant any credit transfer, which may nonetheless be requested later to the relevant office. The Committee may require information about the syllabi of previous exams for which a credit transfer is requested.

To be admitted to the A.Y. 2025-2026, candidates must have all the admission requirements (degree, additional credits, knowledge of the English language) and have uploaded all the necessary documents for verification on the University system by 31 December 2025. Regardless of when submitted, the Admission Committee will evaluate applications for admission only when all requirements are met.

Satisfaction of competencies and qualification is considered verified for Candidates with a degree title from an Italian University and a final evaluation mark of at least 95/110. For candidates who have obtained a final evaluation lower than 95/110, the verification of personal competence’s adequacy is carried out via individual interviews (possibly online). Moreover, the Committee may decide to invite for an interview:

(a) candidates with a degree from a foreign university, to ascertain competencies and motivations;

(b) candidates who have request any credit transfer from a previous academic career, to ascertain the request’s validity and correctness.

The Admission Committee can be contacted to request clarifications which may not be explicitly provided in this document, via the following e-mail:

ammissioni.scienzefilosofiche@unimi.it

The Committee does not provide evaluations of curricula or of possible validation of credit transfer requests previous to applications.

Dates for interviews will be communicated by the committee directly to the candidates in accordance with the evaluation of applications.
Candidates will be invited via the online application system. Candidates who do not reply to an invitation will not be admitted.

Call and deadlines

Application for admission:
22/01/2025 to 31/10/2025

Application for matriculation:
Students who acquire all the admission requirements by 31  December 2025: by 15
January 2026

Non-EU students applying for a visa must submit their admission application by 30 April 2025.

By enrolling, the choice of a curriculum is compulsory. The study plan for each curriculum has important distinguishing characteristics. For this reason, a thoughtful choice is recommended. Ask your bachelor’s thesis supervisor, or the curricula tutors, for information:

https://scienzefilosofiche.cdl.unimi.it/en/programme/contact-persons

Change of curriculum is possible, but only some of the given acquired credits might be recognized.

The curricula for the Master Degree in Philosophical Sciences are the following four:

Critique of the Contemporary: Perspectives and Genealogies

The curriculum offers an ample and varied study path with a distinctly critical-theoretical character. The curriculum allows to achieve a specialized preparation in the philosophical branches of Theoretical Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, and Aesthetics, considered in their connection with historical, individual, and social issues. Through several disciplines, the curriculum aims at showing how philosophy, loyal to its task, addresses present day issues from the hermeneutical perspectives developed in modern and contemporary thought.

Philosophies, Cultures, and Societies

The curriculum aims to offer a varied course of study including anthropological, moral, sociological, and political disciplines. This course of study aims, in particular, to deepen the multiple connections and contaminations between philosophy, on the one hand, and human sciences, in the broadest sense, on the other.

Philosophy and Its Histories: Concepts, Traditions, Transformations

The curriculum aims to provide students with advanced philosophical training, characterized by a historical approach to philosophical research. Thanks to historical research, philosophical inquiry acquires a critical understanding of the genesis and meaning of the problems it debates and of their possible solutions. The study course follows a dual path: on the one hand, it provides content related to philosophical thought and the methodology of historical and cultural analysis; on the other hand, it strengthens awareness of philosophical problems and the current debate, along with any interdisciplinary connections.

Reasoning, Analysis, and Modelling

The curriculum enables the students to acquire deep knowledge of the methods and topics developed  by analytic  philosophers,  providing  specialized  training in  contemporary debates on the following subjects: the nature and limits of human knowledge; the relations between language, thought, and reality; the structures of sound reasoning; the fundamental categories of reality. Courses are held either in Italian or English, and students can take the entire curriculum in English, with lectures encouraging the active participation of students.

To acquire more information about the curricula, you are suggested to navigate the
Program description of the academic year, available under Official documents at this link:

https://www.unimi.it/en/education/philosophical-sciences

During the first year of enrolment, students are required to submit the study plan and to indicate which exams they intend to take within the relevant curriculum. The choice is to be made considering a set of clearly indicated constraints.  The study plan must conform with the Programme Description and consider the year of enrolment. 

All useful information can be found at:
https://scienzefilosofiche.cdl.unimi.it/en/courses/educational-plan

The opening and closing dates of the study plan compilation window can be found on
Unimia, in the Study plan section.

Once completed and approved, the study plan cannot be modified until the opening of the next year’s compilation window. The modification of the study plan is carried out by presenting a new one through the Unimia system. In alternative, the compilation of the individual study plan may be requested through the InformaStudenti system.

Some curricula require mandatory exams to be taken in the first semester; in particular:

1-  Critique of the Contemporary: Perspectives and Genealogies:

Antropologia filosofica (9 ECTS)
Estetica del performativo (9 ECTS)
Filosofia delle pratiche (9 ECTS)

2-  Philosophies, Cultures, and Societies:

Filosofia delle pratiche (9 ECTS)
Filosofia morale LM (9 ECTS)

4-  Reasoning, Analysis, and Modelling:

Logical Methods (9 ECTS)
Philosophical Analysis (9 ECTS)

Furthermore, the curriculum Reasoning, Analysis, and Modelling requires that one of the following two exams be taken in the first semester of the first year:

Rules, Reason and Norms (9 ECTS)
Anthropology of artificial intelligence (9 ECTS)

For all curricula, verification of the B2 level in English is mandatory, as it is a prerequisite for courses taught in English.

If the student is unable to take some or all of the mandatory exams in the first semester (when applicable), they may take them at any other point during their academic career.

The degree course includes internships through convention, including proposals by the student, authorized and followed by a tutor of the Academic Board. An internship lasts from 3 to 6 months, with flexible working hours and allows students to acquire 3 ECTS credits. Through an intense tutoring activity – carried out mainly by the University Study and Career Guidance Service COSP – the course directs students towards internship which, in addition to offering generic training for entering the labor market, allow them to use the specific skills acquired in the study course. The course especially gives priority to training experiences in high school, libraries, and sectors related to cultural organizations, publishing, communication, computational, and data processing.

Employment

Graduates in Philosophical Sciences may:

•   fill   in   strategic, organizational, and communication roles in the public administration, and in public or private, national or international companies;
•   work in the field of traditional and multimedia publishing;
•   carry out professional activities in the communication sector;
•   carry out professional activities in the field of philosophical counseling;
•   coordinate working groups as a cultural mediator. Graduates in Philosophical Sciences will be able to:
•   conduct independent research in the context of doctoral or research programs in philosophy and related sciences in Italy and abroad;
•   fill in management and coordination roles in the public administration;
•   work in HR recruiting and development, communication, inter-company relations, and cultural programs in public and private organizations;
•   work as an editorial director or manuscript editor;
•   work as a cultural event manager, or copywriter;
•   work in corporate and work-life balance counseling;
•   work in promoting cooperation in the workplace or otherwise in multi-cultural societies;
•   integrate data, define concepts, and model problems to illustrate users’ requests and business goals.