Postgraduates

Bernardo Aguilera

Bernardo studied medicine and cognitive studies in Chile. Then his interests turned to philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and philosophy of language. His PhD research is on the origins of mental representation and animal cognition.

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Charlotte Alderwick

Charlott's focuses are on the concept of the Absolute in German Idealism, and it's relationship to human freedom.  More broadly I am interested in the problem of freedom, naturalism, Kant and post-Kantian philosophy, and phenomenology.

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Sally Alstead

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Benedict Arscott

Ben is interested in political philosophy, the history of philosophy and philosophy as an educational tool.  Ben intends to investigate how theories of legitimacy apply (or should apply) to civil society bodies.

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Frank Arthurs

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Alex Baker-Graham

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Monika Bar

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Jessica Begon

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Mark Bellamy

 

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Angela Bird

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Cameron Bisset

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Victor Cantero

Víctor has general interests in philosophy of logic (logical consequence), philosophy of language (theories of reference and meaning of proper names) and metaphysics (modality and essentialism). His PhD is on the relation between different kinds of necessity, especially between metaphysical and logical necessity.

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Giulia Bovolenta

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Christopher Bowman

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Peter Caven

Peter's main research interests are in ethical theory, moral psychology and political philosophy.  His PhD thesis aims to develop an empirical account of intercultural and intracultural moral disagreement and discuss the political implications of such an account.

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Kelvin Charles

 

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Fangyu Chen

 

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Ting-Yu Cheng

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Ryan Doran

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Josh Fedorko

Josh's interests are in the study of German Idealism.

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Carlos Felippe

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Joshua Forstenzer

Joshua's doctoral research seeks to bring John Dewey's conceptions of democracy and citizenship to bear on contemporary debates relating to method in political philosophy; specifically, he aims to argue that Dewey provides an account of democratic political processes which can prove to be useful for political philosophers seeking to engage with political practice. More generally though, he is interested in political philosophy, the history of political thought, American Pragmatism, ethics and social philosophy. Joshua also has interests in continental philosophy, the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of education.

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Carl Fox

Carl is interested in political philosophy, particularly theories of legitimacy, obligation and consent, as well as meta-ethics, epistemology and metaphysics.

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Maxwell Gattie

Max took a BSc in physics in Manchester.  He's since worked just about everywhere, including central government (the former ODPM), a military contractor, a nuclear power station, Umbro sportswear (when they were taken over by Nike), the FIA Sportscar championship, and several marketing and advertising agencies.  He's trained as a graphic designer and teaches on a photography course.  Current research is into how the mind works, not least his own.

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Paul Giladi

Paul received a BA and an MPhil from King's College London, and his PhD thesis is on Hegel's critique and development of Kantian theoretical philosophy. His philosophical interests are Early Modern Philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Language.

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Richard Hassall

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Richard Healey

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Joshua Hobbs

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Edward Jacobs

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Angharad John

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Prajesh Kalarikkal Unnikrishnan

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Jan Kandiyali

Jan's interests are in the history of political ideas, contemporary political theory and ethics. He has just started his PhD, which focuses on issues relating to Marxism, communitarianism and historicism.

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Yinn Kang

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Nicola Kemp

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Armin Khameh

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko

Joe's thesis is in the area of social philosophy; specifically considering the relation of the collective perspective to problems of cooperation such as the prisoner's dilemma. His general research interests range from group belief (and other group attributes) to the folly of individualism. Occasionally he likes to dip his toe into radical political theory.

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Simon Kittle

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Thomas  Le Cocq

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James Levitt

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Fumiko Mallory

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Himdad Margi

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Natasha McKeever

Natasha is interested in Political and Moral Philosophy, and in particular in sexual ethics. She is currently writing her PhD thesis on the subject of monogamy under the supervision of Christopher Bennett.

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Lucy Naish

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Benjamin Norwood

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Simon O'Halloran

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William Page

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Jonathan Parry

Jonathan's research interests are in applied ethics (particularly just war theory) and political philosophy generally. His PhD thesis aims to question whether fighting on behalf of a legitimate authority is necessary in justifying combatant rights in war.

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Jonathan Payne

Jonathan is in his first year of the PhD program, where his principal interest is in philosophy of mathematics, and in particular neo-logicism. He is interested especially in the interaction of two features of neo-logicism, namely the problem of 'bad company' and attempts to build a neo-logicist foundation of set theory.

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Angie Pepper

Angie’s PhD thesis is on feminism and global justice. More specifically, she is attempting to show that cosmopolitanism is the only approach to global justice that feminists can coherently take. Besides Political Philosophy and Feminism, she is also interested in Philosophy of Education, Normative Ethics, playing scrabble, and going to the pub!

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Lindsey Porter

Lindsey is currently writing a PhD on the moral status of children. She wrote an Mphil on pragmatics and her BA focused on formal logic and metaphysics.

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Philipp Rau

Philipp's interests are in the Philosophy of Mind, the Philosophy of Psychology and the Philosophy of Science more generally.

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Paniel Reyes Cardenas

Paniel's interests include pragmatism, the philosophy of language and ontology.

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Ivar Rodriguez Hannikainen

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Susanna Romoli

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Jan Roth Kanarski

Jan's interests are in exploring issues around Identity formation, community issues and general aspects of local and global political organization.

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Thomas Rowe

Thomas's research interests are: Demoncratic theory and justice (especially moral constructivism).  He is also interested in the relationship between justice and the market.

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Aram Sabir

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Stephanie Sanderson

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Josiah Saunders

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Victoria Smith

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Kameron St Clare

Kameron's areas of interest are political/legal philosophy, feminist philosophy, Kant and the philosophy of religion.

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Corina Stanton

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Matthew Steinkraus

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Rebecca Stevens

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Simon Thornton

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Inga Vermeulen

Inga’s research is on the philosophical ideal of conceptual clarity. She examines different forms of conceptual clarity that matter in philosophy and argues for their epistemic and practical value. She hopes to provide a new perspective on a core part of philosophical practice and to suggest a way in which philosophical endeavours may contribute to the wider society.

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Jack Wadham

Jack's interests include pragmatism (especially Dewey and Rorty), phenomenology (especially Heidegger) and cognitive studies (especially embodied and embedded theories of cognition).

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Thomas Wainwright

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Zhaoming Wang

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Sam Waters

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Scott Wheeler

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Neil Williams

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Stephen Wright

Stephen is currently working on his PhD thesis under the supervision of Paul Faulkner on the subject of trust, both in terms of what makes trusting distinct from other similar relationships such as relying and depending and its role in the epistemology of testimony. His other interests include metaphysics and the philosophy of science.

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Lufeng Yang

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