'The Research Master's in Philosophy provides its students with ample opportunities for exploring the quirkiest corners of pretty much any debate, while also forcing us to pay attention to the Western canon in order to become knowledgeable yet specialised academics. It's especially in the so-called 'tutorials' that one is left to one's own interests and devices, which makes for an interesting exercise in self-discipline and philosophical soul-searching. As someone with an interest in the crossroads between philosophy and the social sciences, the tutorial system allows me to further my interests by enabling me to set up tutorials on recent developments in historical materialism, phenomenological sociology and various currents in science and technology studies. On the other hand, the core courses that are part of the programme, have rooted me more firmly in much older (longlasting, yes; 'classical'!) debates, making me reconnect with thinkers like Aristotle, Spinoza and Locke, but also forcing me (ultimately to my joy!) to pick up thinkers like Frege and Wittgenstein that I never considered reading ever again after having had to do it during my Bachelor's.

Added bonus to the wonderful programme, I think, is the presence of foreign students. It has really changed my ideas on how to do philosophy as a collective effort. Of course I can't promise any future student the same experience, but I hope that the selection criteria to this Master's help to select people that tend to over-reflect on what they do, turning studying philosophy into a very educative experience.'