Dissertation Titles 2013/2014
Forename
Surname
Dissertation Title
Supervisor
Massimo Renzo
Megan
Bell
Should states intervene in humanitarian crises for purely
humanitarian reasons or only when their own interests are
at stake?
Liam
Bowden
A Nietzschean perspective on transhumanism
David James
Steven
Dalglish
An investigation into the concept of truth: Reinhardt's
Instrumentalism
Walter Dean
Samuel
Dames
Metaphysics of presence as a technological problem:
Heidegger and Stiegler on originary technicity
Miguel Beistegui
Thomas
Flanagan
Heidegger's rectorate: Entry and departure from the
political scene
Miguel Beistegui
Carl-Otto
Frietsch
A defence of radical freedom through an alternative
conception of Sartre's 'Theory of Value'
Peter Poellner
Rebekah
Halkett
Is Spinoza's God really 'God'?
Tess
Hanneman
Should freedom of expression ever be sacrificed in the
name of equality?
Gregory
Horner
The relation between systematic thought and the mode of
presentation in the work of G. W. F. Hegel
Tom
Kalus
Is 'Difference and Repetition' an attempt by Deleuze at a
philosophy of life?
Miguel Beistegui
James
McNally
What is a desiring-machine? An examination of the role of
the concept of the desiring-machine in Gilles Deleuze and
Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
Miguel Beistegui
Joseph
Parker
A critique of the Heideggerian project of fundamental
ontology
Miguel Beistegui
Amelia
Parsons
An Application of the Socratic Method to the Slave-boy
Experiment
Simon Scott
Moritz
Reithmayr
On Forgiveness
Miguel Beistegui
Jack
Ross
Is speciesism defensible?
Richard Rowland
David Smith
Massimo Renzo
David James
Forename
Arend
Surname
Dissertation Title
Von Wielligh Socrates’ Subversion of the Traditional Erastes-Eromenos
Relationship
Supervisor
Simon Scott