Dissertation Titles 2012/2013
Forename
Surname
Dissertation Title
Supervisor
Colin
Alexander
Determinism in Spinoza and Nietzsche
Keith Ansell-Pearson
Kate
Applebaum
Nietzsche and Heidegger’s problematisation of
Peter Poellner
hyper-reflexivity in modernity
Luc
Batty
Metaphysics/ Zeno’s Paradoxes
Walter Dean
Stephanie
Baravelli
Philosophy of time, being stuck in time
Christopher Hoerl
Richard
Bennett
The relationship between Nietzsche’s “Ubermensch”
Keith Ansell-Pearson
and Buddhism’s Nirvana
Matthew
Bunnage
An examination of the role played by equality in the
Fabienne Peter
legitimacy of democratic authority
Oliver
Campbell
Frankfurt on Freedom
Guy Longworth
Benjamin
Clifford
Global Poverty and the demands of affluence
Fabienne Peter
Joseph
Courtley
Donald Davidson's Account of Metaphor
Guy Longworth
Daniel
Crowder
Ethics in video game design
Eileen John
Alexander
Daniels
According to Jean-Paul Sartre are we conferrers of
Peter Poellner
value and is his account of the origin of value
plausible?
Sebastian
Emerson
Foucault’s early critique of anthropological thought and
Giuseppe Bianco
its consequences for the subject
Natalie
Fraser
Other Minds
Naomi Eilan
Bede
Hager- Suart
On Burge’s Ant-individualism
Guy Longworth
Kate
Harrison
Knowledge in Plato’s Meno, Ancient Philosophy
Simon Scott
Holly
Hayes Fisher An examination of freedom within the philosophies of
Keith Ansell-Pearson
Nietzsche and Spinoza
Baxter
Jephcott
Deluge: What is a good concept
Miguel de Beistegui
Divya
Kirpalani
Practical Ethics (abortion or euthanasia)
Massimo Renzo
Charles
Knight
Do we have free will and does it matter?
Naomi Eilan
Matthew
Knowles
Nietzsche’s Positive Ethics
Keith Ansell-Pearson
Zahra
Mawji
Retributivism and the justification of punishment
Massimo Renzo
Bethany
Parsons
To what extent do the pre-Socratic philosophers
Keith Ansell-Pearson
embody Nietzsche’s notion of the tragic?
Joshua
Prime
The role neuroscience can play in settling the free will
Naomi Eilan
debate (final title not yet known)
Breman
Rajkumar
Sartre – Self-Deception, responsibility, freedom
Peter Poellner
Jack
Shardlow
Jackson’s Knowledge argument, and the
Matt Soteriou
physicalist/antiphysicalist debate
Joel
Sinyard
Animal Ethics (Kant)
Fabienne Peter
Forename
Surname
Dissertation Title
Supervisor
Samuel
Speight
Whether a state is ever justified in permitting the use of
Eileen John
torture in certain circumstances?
Alec
Stratton-Lake
Personal Identity
Christopher Hoerl
Callum
Thompson
Philosophy of Law
Massimo Renzo
Joseph
Walters
Philosophy of Thought and Language
Hemdat Lerman
Alison
Wood
Is it ever permissible to restrict access to certain forms
Massimo Renzo
of children’s literature?