The Master's Degree Course in Philosophical Sciences at the University of Chieti-Pescara develops along four, obviously interconnected, educational lines.Firstly, it aims to provide the theoretical and methodological tools to understand the different epochs, contexts and subject areas of the philosophical traditions that have developed in the almost three thousand years of human history ranging from Greco-Archic antiquity to our contemporary times.To this end, students are offered a wide range of historical-philosophical teaching, dedicated to the presentation and examination of all periods of the history of philosophy: antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, early and late modernity, and the contemporary age.Secondly, the course of study aims to sharpen the aptitude for critical ability and the methodologies required to identify original lines of research, develop them with rigour and communicate them competently. To this end, students will acquire specific knowledge in the disciplinary fields of theoretical philosophy, philosophy of praxis - moral and political - and philosophy of science. Provided with these tools, they will be able to orient themselves in the current debate and develop the ability to carry out their own research independently. In particular, they will be able to make the tools of philosophical enquiry interact with the central questions of scientific research, ethics and economics, and law.Thirdly, the course of study, in conjunction with a valid curricular pathway within a Bachelor's degree programme, enables students oriented towards teaching in secondary schools to acquire the knowledge and requirements necessary to enter the training or competition paths envisaged for access to this professional field. It also provides the preparation and qualifications for access to competition procedures relating to higher training courses intended for scientific research.Last but not least, the course of study is aimed at training professional figures capable of working in those political and economic sectors in which the transversal skills peculiar to philosophical training are required: the sphere of business management and human resources, for example; the spheres of communication and creative design; or, again, those of the promotion of rights, the promotion and evaluation of biomedical and scientific research in general, cultural mediation between disciplines, worldviews, lifestyles and society.