Postgraduate Students

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Matthew Abbott
PhD Candidate
Thesis: Word, World and Earth: Agamben, Heidegger and the Politics of Poetic Experience
Supervisor: Dr. John Grumley

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 Topic: Heidegger's Ontological Interpretation of Kant's Transcendental Philosophy.
Supervisor: Bruin Christensen

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

Mran-Marie Campbell
PhD Candidate
Thesis topic:
Supervisor:

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

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

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

Peter Evans
PhD Candidate
Provisional thesis title: 'The consequences of non-locality to current models of
space-time'.
Suprevisor: Prof. Huw Price

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 topic:
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 topic:
Supervisor: David Macarthur

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

Amanda Hickling
MPhil Candidate
Thesis topic:
Supervisor: Caroline West

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

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

Adam LaCaze
PhD Candidate
Supervisor: Prof. Mark Colyvan
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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 topic:
Supervisor: Moira Gatens

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 topic:
Supervisor: David Macarthur

Philip Andrew Quadrio
PhD Candidate
Thesis Topic: Organicism and Society in Kant and Hegel.
Supervisor: Paul Redding

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

Danielle Scarratt
PhD Candidate
Thesis topic: 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 Topic: Swampman and Intentional Content
Supervisor: David Braddon-Mitchell

John Stockfeld
PhD Candidate
Thesis topic: 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 Topic: Difficult Bodies: Merleau-Ponty's Reception by Contemporary Cognitive Science
Supervisor: Paul Redding

Nandi Theunissen
MPhil Candidate
Thesis Topic: 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 topic: Skepticism
Supervisor: David Macarthur

Cordell Weir
MPhil Candidate
Thesis topic:
Supervisor: Moira Gatens

Brad Weslake
PhD candidate
Thesis Title: Asymmetries and Saliencies: Essays on the Causal Perspective
Supervisor: Huw Price