| Daniel Baldwin | Dying for life: an exploration of identity, society, and the duty to die |
| Michalina Bevoor | Unravelling Death (working title) |
| Georgina Brighouse | Investigating aphantasia and how capacities for visual imagery can affect individuals in a mental health setting |
| Miles Cheshire |
The Morally Confrontational Now Belief: Solving Problems in the Law of Criminal Attempts |
| Gary Jones | Elizabeth Anscombe on Causality |
| Stephen Kearns | The moral status of synthetic organisms: grounding enactive biocentrism in a Kantian framework |
| Xiaoran Lu | Informed consent issues of data acquisition for developing medical AI |
| Hannah Moss | Fleshing it Out: A Feminist Analysis of Somatosensory Perception and Enactive Cognition |
| Megan Rawson | Understanding Maternal-Foetal Identity and Pregnancy Rights |
| Liam Shore | Radical Life Extension: A Critical Examination of its Rationale & Existentialist Dimensions |
| Stella Sideli | Site-specificity as a response to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Curatorial Practices |
| Dan Sim | An evaluation of contemporary philosophy of consciousness employing the methodological approaches of Ordinary Language Philosophy |
| Laura-Jayne Smith | |
| Paul Taylor | All Theists Should be Divine-Command Theorists |
| Graham Veale | Moral Arguments for Theism |
| Rossella Vingelli | Extended organicity in cyborg: bridging the gap between the natural and the artificial |
| Neil Williams | The Existential Virtues - Flourishing in the Abyss |
| Jeanna Witton | How commercial surrogacy can be mutually beneficial for surrogates and intended parents from a lense of intersectional feminism. |
| Huitong Zhou | Towards A New Philosophy of Life: Hans Jonas’ Phenomenon of Life as a Monistic Attempt to Overcome Modern Nihilism |
Past PGRs
Here are some of the students who have recently completed their PhD's with us.
2024
Lauren Stephens, ‘A Sartrean Look at Art and Museum Ethics’ (Supervised by Dr Simoniti)
Sam Cooper, ‘A New Approach to the Reality of Iris Murdoch’s Good’ (supervised by Dr Wiseman) -
Tom Brown, ‘Linguistic Idealism and the Disjunctive Approach to the Problem of False Propositions’ (supervised by Professor Gaskin)
Andrew Holland, ‘Virtue Ethics, Psychology and the Environmental Crisis’ (supervised by Professor Hailwood)
Harry Drumond, ‘Understanding Others, Understanding Art: A 4E Approach to Intersubjectivity in Aesthetics’ (supervised by Dr Vid Simoniti)
2023
Ian Dunbar, ‘Fregean Unsaturation’ (supervised by Dr McLeod)
Zishan Khawaja, ‘Madhyamaka: A Metaphysical Interpretation' (supervised by Dr Bartley)
Sam Cloake, ‘Naturalism in the Philosophy of Richard Rorty’ (supervised by Professor Gaskin)
Tom Swaine-Jameson, ‘The Epistemology of Intrinsic Value’ (supervised by Professor Schramme)
2022
Jack Symes, ‘The Evil God Challenge’ (supervised by Dr Hill)
2021
Ruthie Miller, ‘A Process Approach to Presentism: A Route towards Compatibility with Physical Theory’ (supervised by Dr McLeod)
2020
Xiaoyan Hu, ‘The Relation between Art and Nature: The Notion of ‘Qi Yun’ (‘Spirit Resonance’) in Chinese Art in Comparison with Western Ideas’ (supervised by Professor Hailwood)
Rachel Handley, ‘A Defence of Simon Blackburn’s Quasi-Realism’ (supervised by Professor Schramme)
2019
Matt Hart, ‘Theological Determinism and the Goodness of God’ (supervised by Dr Hill)
Gregory Miller, ‘Panpsychism and Phenomenal Relations: a Novel Solution to the Combination Problem’ (supervised by Professor Dainton)
Gary Donnelly, ‘Against a Mahāyāna Absolute: Why Absolutism Need Not Be a Conclusion of Mahāyāna Philosophy’ (supervised by Dr Bartley)
2018
Oliver Downing, ‘Towards a Dialectical Materialist Philosophy of Love’ (supervised by Professor Hailwood)
Rob Booth, ‘Environmental Crises and Eco-Phenomenological Praxis’ (supervised by Professor Hailwood)
Seyed Ashrafi, ‘Ethical Principles for Hospital Design’ (supervised by Professor Hailwood)
2017
Thom Atkinson, ‘Human organisms and the survival of death: A systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism’ (supervised by Dr Hill)
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