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University of Milan PhD in The Human Mind and Its Explanations: Language, Brain and Reasoning
University of Milan

PhD in The Human Mind and Its Explanations: Language, Brain and Reasoning

3 Years

English

Full time

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Oct 2025

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    About: The PhD in The Human Mind and Its Explanations: Language, Brain and Reasoning explores the intricate connections between language, brain function, and reasoning processes. This program delves into cognitive science, aiming to understand how these elements interact to shape human experience and thought. Students will engage in advanced research and contribute to ongoing discussions in this interdisciplinary field.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue various career paths, including academic positions, research roles in cognitive science, and positions within healthcare or education sectors that focus on language processing and cognitive development.

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The program advances research in human cognition, emphasizing interdisciplinary study and practical experimentation. It requires strong analytical skills and encourages theoretical reflection. Students access diverse coursework, faculty expertise, and global opportunities for study, exchange, conferences, and collaboration.

The doctoral programme offers a theoretical-analytical and technical-methodological preparation rooted in an excellent tradition of international research on empirical sociology. It aims to train researchers in the analysis of current processes of cultural and social change based on the close integration of theory and empirical research. The programme aims to provide a solid theoretical-conceptual preparation along with mastery of the most up-to-date research methodologies and techniques, both quantitative and qualitative. This translates into a programme which provides students with all the tools for undertaking original, theoretically oriented and empirically based research on a wide range of aspects of contemporary society. Particular attention is given to comparison between different social situations and contexts, also in supranational contexts and through extended periods of research abroad. Lectures are delivered in English.

Although well anchored in the concepts and methods of sociological research, the student will regularly interact with the other social sciences - anthropology, psychology, political sciences, economics, demography, statistics, and informatics - to gain a fuller understanding of the phenomena under study. The main areas of doctoral research in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research regard social change and inequalities, cultural processes, the media and the public sphere, urban spaces, and methodologies in social research.

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