Lucy Manning (PhD 2022)

Topic: Atomism in Plato and Wittgenstein
Supervisors: Sophie Grace Chappell and Naoko Yamagata (Classics)

Ian Watson (PhD 2022)

Topic: Patriotism
Supervisors: Sean Cordell and Derek Matravers
Funding: Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Christopher Grey (PhD 2021)

Supervisors: Sophie Grace Chappel and Martin Clarke (Music)

George Kourdounoulis (PhD 2021)

Supervisors: Claire Hewson (Psychology) and Derek Matravers

Sarah Pawlett Jackson (PhD 2020)

Topic: Intersubjectivity
Supervisors: Sophie Grace Chappell and Manuel Dries

David Hurrell (PhD 2019)

Topic: Nietsche’s Conception of Decadence
Supervisors: Manuel Dries and Sophie Grace Chappell
Funding: CHASE

 

Brandon Robshaw (PhD 2019)

Topic: Should a Liberal State Ban the Burqa?
Supervisors: Jon Pike and Sean Cordell

 

Christopher Yorke (PhD 2019)

Topic: Bernard Suits and the Utopian Politics of Gaming
Supervisors: Jon Pike and Alex Barber

 

Susanne Mathies (PhD 2018)

Topic: Fiction Reading and Narrative Identity
Supervisors: Carolyn Price

 

Jon Phelan (PhD 2018)

Topic: Understanding Other Minds from Literary Fiction
Supervisors: Derek Matravers and Sophie Grace Chappell

 

Nathan Fox (PhD 2017)

Topic: The Environmental Complexity Thesis and the Problem of Knowledge

 

David McBride (PhD 2017)

Topic: Moral Equality: Article of Faith?
Supervisors: Derek Matravers and Jon Pike

 

Paul Jackson (PhD 2016)

Topic: Lucretius’ Atheism
Supervisors: Sophie Grace Chappell and Naoko Yamagata (Classics)

 

Raymond Boyce (PhD 2014)

Topic: Catching the Cow's Eye: The Spectacle as Moral Reason

 

V. Luca Sciortino (PhD 2014)

Topic: Styles of Thinking: Assessing and Developing Ian Hacking’s Historical Epistemology

 

W. Brent Hepburn (PhD 2011)

Topic: The Mind in Giambattista Vico’s New Science,

 

Grant Douglas Vallance (PhD 2009)

Topic: Sciences, Evaluation, and Ethics

 

Kevin Sludds (MPhil 2008)

Topic: Cognitive and Heideggerian Approaches to the Study of Emotion/Mood

 

David Proud (MPhil 2007)

Topic: The Free Will Problem

 

Matthew Rowe (PhD 2007)

Topic: The Foundation for a Definition: An Analytic Analysis of the Framework of Practice in which Art is Made

 

David Knott (PhD 2006)

Topic: Be Reasonable: A Defence and Development of the Case for Internal Reasons

 

David Edmonds (PhD 2003)

Topic: Caste Wars: the morality of treating individuals as though they are members of groups

 

Ann Bousfield (PhD 2002)

Topic: The Relationship between Liberalism and Conservatism: Competitive, Symbiotic or Parasitic?

 

Gary Pendlebury (PhD 2001)

Topic: Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel

 

Stephen John Watt (PhD 1999)

Topic: Aristotle's View of Human Nature as the Basis for Ethical Theory

 

John Glassford (PhD 1999)

Topic: Nihilism and Modernity

 

I. Hirst (PhD 1999)

Topic: Philosophy of Mind and Neurological Impairment

 

Michael John Christopher Hodgson (MPhil 1998)

Topic: The Problem of Human Subjectivity, with particular regard to the relationship between Hegel’s Early Theological Writings and his mature philosophy of religion

 

Stephen Watt (PhD 1998)

Topic: Aristotle’s view of human nature as a basis for ethical theory

 

Emyr Vaughan Thomas (PhD 1997)

Topic: Wittgensteinian Descriptivism and Concepts of Self-Renunciation

 

Anthony J McGowan (PhD 1996)

Topic: The Sublime Machine: Conceptions of Masculine Beauty, 1750-1850

 

Richard Taylor (MPhil 1996)

Topic: On Natural Suffering