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Current Research Students
Our research students join our research community through membership of one of our research clusters or the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society. The lists below show our current students grouped by research area.
Aesthetics, Ethics, Environmental and Economic Philosophy and Politics
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Name |
Start Year |
Supervisor |
Research Areas |
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Berwin, Bradley |
2018 |
Dr. Simon James |
Animal Ethics |
|
Betinsky, Jakub |
2017 |
Dr. Ben Smith |
Ethics (moral realism), Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy (virtue ethics), Fact/value Dichotomy, Philosophy of Action, Elizabeth Anscombe, Bernard Williams, Ludwig Wittgenstein (philosophy of language/mind) |
|
Brown, Jasmine |
2016 |
Dr. Ben Smith |
Ethics of Care |
|
Brown, Walter |
2012 |
Prof. Geoffrey Scarre |
Moral Philosophy |
|
Donovan, Amber |
2020 |
Dr Clare Mac Cumhaill |
Moral and Environmental Philosophy: Gaia |
|
Jacob, Salomé |
2014 |
Prof. Andy Hamilton & Dr. Clare MacCumhaill |
Philosophy of mind and philosophy of music |
|
Main, Ruby |
2019 |
Prof. Andy Hamilton & Dr. Ben Smith |
The other side of the limit: The changing Conception on ‘nonsense’ in Wittgenstein’s early and later work |
|
Marlow-Stevens, Elliot |
2018 |
Prof. Andy Hamilton |
Aesthetics of 20th Century Music |
|
Stuart, Richard |
2016 |
Prof. Geoffrey Scarre |
Philosophy - The Foundations of Ethics |
|
Sullivan Carr, Aoife |
2019 |
Prof. Geoffrey Scarre & Dr Joe Saunders |
Moral Philosophy, Ethics and Philosophy of Violence |
|
Wee, Michael |
2020 |
Prof. Andy Hamilton |
Moral Epistemology after Wittgenstein |
|
Yue, Li |
2020 |
Prof. Andy Hamilton |
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Entertainment |
Applied Phenomenology
|
Student |
Start Year |
Supervisor |
Research Areas |
|
Fernandez, Anthony |
2015 |
Dr. Simon James |
phenomenology and philosophy of science |
|
Large, Lee |
2014 |
Dr. Sylvie Gambaudo |
Researching the reproduction of transgender identities in the context of medicalized narratives |
|
Notess, Susan |
2017 |
Dr. Benedict Smith |
Ethics and social epistemology, philosophy of listening |
|
Shannon, Nathan |
2012 |
Dr. Simon James |
Moral phenomenology |
CHESS
|
Name |
Start Year |
Supervisor |
Research Areas |
|
Elliott, Alex |
2016 |
Prof. Nancy Cartwright |
Pluralism and realism in the philosophy of science |
|
Fonseca, Alexandre |
2017 |
Prof. Julian Reiss |
Philosophy of Economics / Social Sciences |
|
Munslow, Tamlyn |
2016 |
Prof. Nancy Cartwright |
Evidence Based Policy |
|
Williams, Richard |
2016 |
Prof. Julian Reiss |
Political philosophy and metaphysics |
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
|
Name |
Start Year |
Supervisor |
Research Areas |
|
Dunn, Rachel |
2009 |
Dr. Matthew Eddy |
Seeing and Believing: John Dalton and the Visual Culture of Experimental Science in British Dissenting Academies, 1770-1820 |
|
El-Mawas, Omar |
2018 |
Dr. Peter Vickers & Professor Nancy Cartwright |
History and Philosophy of Science |
|
Lauman-Lairson, Jessica |
2018 |
Dr. Sara Uckelman |
Logic or Philosophy of Science |
|
Malik, Uzma |
2018 |
Dr. Wendy Parker |
Philosophy and Climate Science, Philosophy of Science |
|
Moses, Abigail |
2019 |
Dr. Ben Smith & Dr. Kathy Puddifoot |
Philosophy of Psychiatry |
|
Sediva, Lenka |
2017 |
Dr. Matthew Eddy |
Visual Culture - History and philosophy of science and medicine |
|
Shepherd, John |
2019 |
Dr. Matthew Eddy & Prof. Holger Maehle |
The history of American criminological science, and, more specifically, its interaction with clinical experimental approaches to child psychiatry and psychology from c1900 to 1940 |
|
Stoyanov, Rossen |
2016 |
Dr. Peter Vickers |
Philosophy and History of Science |
|
Summerton, Nick |
2022 |
Prof. Holger Maehle and Prof. Alex Broadbent |
History of Medicine, especially Retrospective Diagnosis |
Mind, Language and Metaphysics
|
Name |
Start Year |
Supervisor |
Research Areas |
|
Aleksiev, Damjan |
2019 |
Dr. Philip Goff |
Philosophy of Mind, panpsychism, the transparency of phenomenal concepts, the powerful qualities view |
|
Goz, Zekiye |
2018 |
Dr. Sara Uckelman |
The Possibility of Linguistic Creativity in Artificial Intelligence |
|
Pemberton, John |
2020 |
Dr. Matthew Tugby |
Metaphysics, Ontology, Change, Powers, Causation, Mereology |
|
Thomas, Andrew |
2017 |
Dr. Sara Uckelman |
Non-existence and intentionality |
|
Zhang, Ruoyu |
2014 |
Dr. Peter Vickers |
Metaphysics |