5 Applied Ethics Master's Degree Programs

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown great potential for social transformation and shaping the way we perceive our world and interact among us and with machines. With an impact on sectors as diverse as healthcare, industry, finance, mobility, and communication, AI has applications in a wide range of business operations, including decision support, predictive maintenance, marketing, content creation, logistics efficiency, and support to public policy making.

The Master’s Degree in Philosophical Knowledge: Foundations, Methods, Applications (Joint Degree) is jointly offered by the University of Bergamo, University of Pavia, & IUSS Pavia entirely in English.

The Master in Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems, studies the traditions, doctrines and texts of the different ethical schools of ancient, modern and contemporary philosophy; as well as empirically investigating the wide and diverse plurality of contemporary moralities, understood as different forms of life that respond to regularities in the criteria, practices, discourses and values, to regulate the life of the communities.

This two-year, tuition-free Master of Arts (MA) programme, taught in English, is conducted in cooperation with the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, an internationally renowned research centre. The programme offers full specialisation in the two main domains of practical philosophy: ethics and political philosophy. It is ideally, but not exclusively, suited for students with a BA degree in general philosophy. The study plan uniquely combines historical and systematic approaches with a strong emphasis on contemporary and pressing issues. The problem-oriented interactive teaching encourages students to think independently and critically about phenomena that are highly relevant both within and outside academia, such as issues of marginalisation and exclusion, animal rights, nature of democracy and climate crisis. The study has a strong research orientation: Our students receive systematic training both in academic writing skills and in critical philosophical thinking to write an original MA thesis in one of the programme domains. The best graduates will be prepared to apply for PhD study at leading academic institutions or to join our vibrant multinational PhD community.

The Master in Bioethics aims to train professionals in the various contemporary ethical dilemmas that the great advances in the field of health, new technologies, the legislation on Personal Rights, and the areas of the environment and ecology deserve.