Ranier Abengana
Thesis Title: The Future of Work and the Crisis of Critique – Resistance as a Condition of Possibility
Supervisor: Brian O’Connor
PhD and MLitt Students
Natalia Burakowska
Thesis Title: The Phenomenology of Dementia – An Embodied-Cognitive Account
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Gent Cakaj
Thesis Title: The Final End of Pure Reason – On the Religious Implications of Kant’s Critical Philosophy
Supervisor: James O’Shea
Maria Agnese Casellato
Thesis Title: Linguistic Reference – Descriptive, Externalism and a Middle Course
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian
Natalija Cera
Thesis Title: Understanding Belonging in the Condition of Migration
Supervisor: Lisa Foran
Antonio Pio De Mattia
Thesis Title: Unveiling Truth and Co-Responsibility in Discourse – A Critical Examination of Habermas-Apel’s Transcendental-Pragmatic Method
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Armando D’Ippolito
Thesis Title: Plato’s Doctrine of Light – Between Mythos and Episteme
Supervisor: Tim Crowley
Lucas Dijker
Thesis Title: The Authority of Knowledge – How to Reconcile Expertise with Democracy?
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian
Marta Dmuchowska
Thesis Title: Why Recover C. B. Martin's Two-Sided Account of Properties?
Supervisor: Tatjana von Solodkoff
Max K. Feenan
Thesis Title: Moments in Time – Geschichte and Geschichtlichkeit in the Thought of Friedrich Schelling and of Martin Heidegger
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Grace Feeney
Thesis Title: “My own body defies exploration” – Finding the Female Body in and Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalytic Theory
Supervisor: Lisa Foran
Samuel Ferns
Thesis Title: Freedom, Knowledge & Power – Reflexive Stage in the Grammars of Critical Social Theory
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Evie Filea
Thesis Title: The Phenomenological Implications and Influences of Edward Bond’s Theory of Theatre
Supervisor: Lisa Foran
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Sophie Foley
Thesis Title: Health and Pathology as Tools of Social Critique
Supervisor: Brian O’Connor
Misha Goudsmit
Thesis Title: Narratives as Frames for Understanding – How Stories Regulate and Communicate Perspectives
Supervisor: Tatjana von Solodkoff
Alessandro Guardascione
Thesis Title: Values and Selfhood in Psychopathology – A Phenomenological Account
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
David Haack
Thesis Title: Phenomenology of Temperature
Supervisor: Tim Mooney
Jo-El James
Thesis Title: Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Hyperobjects Education for Generations Witnessing the Aftermath of the Anthropocene
Supervisors: Tim Mooney & Áine Mahon
Miho Kaneko
Thesis Title: Can a Kind Essentialist Account of Instantiation Explain the Authorial Creation of Fictional Characters?
Supervisor: Tatjana von Solodkoff
Denise Kelly
Thesis Title: On Being (an Outsider) – A Phenomenological Exploration of Social Phobia and Agoraphobia
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Haikyung Kwon
Thesis Title: Negative Dialectic as a Model for ‘Concrete Thinking’ – Adorno’s Formal Dialectic in Relation to Hegel
Supervisor: Brian O’Connor
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Thomas Lewis
Thesis Title: The Eternal Return and the Philosophy of the Future – Reading Nietzsche after Auschwitz with Sarah Kofmann
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Leung Yik Long
Thesis Title: From Suffering to Critique – Negative Dialectics
Supervisor: Brian O’Connor
Pepa Mellema
Thesis Title: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Pejoratives
Supervisor: Elmar Unnsteinsson
Nathan Mulder
Thesis Title: The Screen Specter – Phenomenology, Image Consciousness, and the Digital Screen
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Aisling Phipps
Thesis Title: Who am I? A Phenomenology of Identity Disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder
Supervisor: Ruth Boeker
Rachel Russell
Thesis Title: Timelessness – Metaphysics and Perception in a Timeless World
Supervisor: Daniel Deasy
Clémence Saintemarie
Thesis Title: The Aesthetic is Political: A Critical Phenomenology of Social In/Visibility – Perception, Representation, the Imaginary
Supervisor: Maeve Cooke
Petros Satrazanis
Thesis Title: Analysis of Kostas Axelos on the Planetary thought as a Path to Metaphilosophy
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Fanqi Sun
Thesis Title: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Life
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Roxane Pret Théodore
Thesis Title: Rethinking Political Organisation from a Feminist Standpoint Politicizing an Ethics of Care and Vulnerability
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Philipp Wagenhals
Thesis Title: Critique and Experimentalism – Philosophy and Social Criticism after Adorno and Dewey
Supervisor: Maeve Cooke
Danqi Wang
Thesis Title: The Non-Persistence and Re-Instantiation of Persons – Fission and the Transient Selves
Supervisor: Ruth Boeker
Shengwei Xu
Thesis Title: Adorno and Sartre on Freedom and Praxis – A Study of Transcendence and Revolution
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
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