Postgraduate Students

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Sam Baron
Thesis title: Presentism: from now until the end of time
Supervisor:

Jeremy Bell
MPhil Candidate
Thesis: Untitled.
Supervisor: Moira Gatens

Simone Bignall
PhD Candidate
Title: Postcolonial Agency: A Theory of Practice
Supervisor: Moira Gatens

Matthew Boss
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Heidegger's Ontological Interpretation of Kant's Transcendental Philosophy.
Supervisor: Bruin Christensen

Mran-Marie Campbell
PhD Candidate
Thesis title:
Supervisor:

Vickie Cardiff-Kinder
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title: Reason and the Emotions
Supervisor: Caroline West

Byron Clugston
Thesis title: Hegel’s Treatment of Religious Imagery in Relation to Kant’s Moral
Theology
Supervisor: Paul Redding

Christina Colegate
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Stretching the Friendship: Laclau and Mouffe's Radical Democratic Politics
Supervisor: Moira Gatens

Mairead Costigan
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: The Function of Justification in the Dialectic of the Republic. Supervisor: Rick Benitez

John Cusbert
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title: Quantum Mecahnical Probability in an Everett Universe
Supervisor: Huw Price

Rob Dennis
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: The Changing Concept of Reason
Supervisor: Stephen Gaukroger

Peter Evans
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: An Examination of Retrocausality in Quantum Mechanics.
Suprevisor: Huw Price

Alison Fernandes
Thesis title: Analytic approaches to existence: what sense can be made of the claim that the world exists independently of our practices in coming to know it?
Supervisor: David Braddon-Mitchell

Luke Fischer

Kim Frost
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title: The Role of Normative Communities in the Philosophy of Robert Brandom
Supervisor: Paul Redding

Julie Germein
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Psychoanalysis as an Interpretive Science
Supervisor: Paul Redding

Heather Gilbert
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title: 'Numerical Identity'
Supervisor: Dr Kristie Miller

Alastair Goff
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title:
Supervisor: David Macarthur

John Hadley
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Nonhuman animal property rights: reconciling ecological holism and species-blind liberalism
Supervisor: Caroline West

James Hanson
PhD Candidate
Thesis title:
Supervisor: David Macarthur

Alison L. S. Harwood
PhD candidate.
Thesis title: Martin Heidegger's radicalisation of philosophy: the function of Alltäglichkeit in 'Sein und Zeit'
Supervisor: Paul Crittenden

Benjamin Herscovitch
Thesis title: A Meta-Normative Account Of Political Justice: Federalism As An Embodiment Of The Politically Just
Supervisor: Duncan Ivison

Amanda Hickling
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title:
Supervisor: Caroline West

Amanda Jane Johnson
PhD candidate:
Thesis title: An Ideal Justification of Punishment
Supervisor: Paul Redding

Mark Kelly
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Power/Resistance: Michel Foucault's Political Ontology
Supervisor: John Grumley

Annette Larrea
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: ’Ready to respond’: Philosophy and the concept of responsibility after Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida
Supervisor: Paul Redding

Jurgen Lawrenz
PhD Candidate
Title: Leibniz versus the Cartesians
Supervisor: Stephen Gaukroger

James William Ley
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: On the Relation of Narrative and Scientific Cognition in Aristotle
Supervisor: Rick Benitez

Carrie Lumby
PhD Candidate
Thesis title:
Supervisor: Moira Gatens

Raamy Majeed
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Qualia: 'The Intrinsic Nature of Experience'
Supervisor: David Braddon-Mitchell

Fabien Medvecky
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Long Term Decisions, the Environment, and Ethics
Supervisor: Mark Colyvan
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Julian Miller
PhD. Candidate
Supervisor: Bruin Christensen

Matthew Minehan
PhD Candidate
Title: Properties and Morality: An Examination of the Role of Universals in Moral Ontology, and the Development of a Trope Ethic
Supervisor: Dr. John Bacon

Andrew Minney
MPhil candidate:
Thesis title: 'Loving the Other: Radical Feminist Theory and Heterosexual Practice'
Supervisor: Dr. Justine McGill

Gerry Nolan
MPhil Candidate
Title: An Analysis of the World as a Process Ontology
Supervisor: Adrian Heathcote

Stuart Palmer
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Teleosemantics and the Stigma of Accidental Minds
Supervisor: David Braddon-Mitchell

Rachel Pereira
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title:
Supervisor: David Macarthur

Margot Priday
Thesis title: Ethics and Human Genome Interventions
Supervisor: Caroline West

Goetz Richter
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Plato on music
Supervisor: Rick Benitez

Steven Robertson
PhD candidate
Thesis title: Paradox and idealisation in decision theory
Supervisor: Mark Colyvan

Danielle Scarratt
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Samuel Clarke, Hume, and protestant natural law.
Supervisor: Stephen Gaukroger

Nathan Sinclair
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Constructive Philosophy: What Philosophy Contributes to the Grand Simulation of Everything
Supervisor: David Braddon-Mitchell

Leba Sleiman
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title: The Nature of Time

Helen Stasa
PhD Candidate
Thesis topic: Well-being
Supervisor: Caroline West

Sarah Stewart
PhD candidate
Thesis title: Swampman and Intentional Content
Supervisor: David Braddon-Mitchell

John Stockfeld
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Heidegger's critique of value philosophy and its bearing on contemporary ecophilosophy
Supervisor: Bruin Christensen

Phillip Taig
MPhil Candidate
Supervisor: John Grumley

Justin Tauber
PhD candidate
Thesis title: Difficult Bodies: Merleau-Ponty's Reception by Contemporary Cognitive Science
Supervisor: Paul Redding

Nandi Theunissen
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title: Truth, Realism and the Task of Inquiry
Supervisor: David Macarthur

Andres van Toledo
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Nietzsche: Amor Fati and the Will to Art
Supervisor: Paul Redding

Shane Waugh
PhD Candidate
Thesis title: Skepticism
Supervisor: David Macarthur

Cordell Weir
MPhil Candidate
Thesis title:
Supervisor: Moira Gatens