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Please distribute. Thank you! Funded places available for 2013-14 on a new MA in Political and Legal Theory: Toleration, at the University of York, UK The University of York is launching a new MA in “Political & Legal Theory: Toleration” for 2013-14, a collaboration between the Departments of Politics and Philosophy, and the York Law School. Thanks to the C & JB Morrell Trust, there are ten (10x) scholarships available, covering home/EU tuition fees for 2013-14. Please pass on details to any current finalists, or recent graduates, in Politics, Philosophy, History or Law, (or other related subjects) who might like to come to York, UK next year to pursue an interdisciplinary MA in moral, political & legal philosophy. Deadline for applications to be considered for funding is Friday 12 July. http://bit.ly/yorkmapoltheory The MA Political and Legal Theory: Toleration, newly revised for 2013-14, provides an opportunity to think about toleration from historical, legal, and philosophical perspectives. Students have the chance to explore the arguments for toleration made by thinkers such as John Locke, Pierre Bayle, and John Stuart Mill, and against it by their enemies, to test the limits of these arguments in discussions of controversial issues such as pornography, faith schools and Holocaust denial. As well as studying toleration, students also have the opportunity to explore fundamental questions in political and legal theory—e.g., How can people with different views on the good life live together without conflict? What is law and what makes it distinctive? What are the relations of morality and law?— and to pursue their wider interests in politics and philosophy, choosing from a range of options offered by the Departments of Politics, Philosophy and the York Law School. They will also write a dissertation of 12,000 words on a topic of their choosing. -- Dr Mihaela Mihai 50th Anniversary Lecturer Department of Politics University of York Heslington YO10 5DD UK [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>