Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (full time and part time) Uganda Martyrs University With a Degree in Philosophy at the Uganda Martyrs University you will have received a solid grounding in the activity of philosophising and been introduced to a range of basic themes and concepts in the tradition of philosophy, including ethics and metaphysics, and in the study of particular philosophical texts in the European philosophy tradition, for example, Leibniz and Kant and, typically, on the philosophy of religion and applied ethics.