"metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck" Kant

Current and Recent Doctoral Research

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Current Research Students

Student Research Interests Thesis
Henrick Andersson ANDERSSON, Henrik

handere [at] essex.ac.uk
Political and Moral Philosophy Theory of Responsibility Responsibility for Past Wrongs
Anna Antouladaki ANTALOUDAKI, Anna

The concept of representation in Plato and Alain Badiou, and its connotations with the question of “the reversal of Platonism” as posed by Nietzsche, Heidegger and Deleuze.

The Second Count: Representation in Being and Event and the Reversal of Plato

Vivienne Ashley ASHLEY, Vivienne Autonomous Decision-Making and Entitlement of Social Welfare Goods   
David Batho  BATHO, David  The Problem of Illusion in Heidegger's Philosophy of Perception   
Matthew Bennett  BENNETT, Matthew Nietzsche
Derrida
Political Theory
Feminist and Gender Theory
Time
Nietzsche's Critique of Democracy 
Jonathan Boddam-Whetham BODDAM-WHETHAM, Jonathan The Relationship between Philosophy and the Political
Phenomenology
Political Theory
Nancy
Lefort
Heidegger
Wittgenstein
Confronting Community:
A Critical Inquiry into the Work of Jean-Luc Nancy
Hugh Palmer Brown  BROWN, Hugh Palmer Political Philosophy
Rawls
Habermas
Liberalism
Multiculturalism
Is a Discourse Based Concept of Liberalism Coherent and Persuasive?
Jeff Byrnes BYRNES, Jeff

jtbyrn [at] essex.ac.uk
Phenomenology
Heidegger
Wittgenstein
Philosophy and Literature
Applied Being
 
Alex Carter  CARTER, Alex

Philosophy of language
Philosophy or religion authorship of actions
Wittgenstein, Simone Weil 
 
Keith Cooper  COOPER, Keith  Autonomy and the Mental Capacity Act   
FRETWELL, Nathan  FRETWELL, Nathan

Existentialism
Anarchism
Phenomenology
Max Stimer
Post(Structuralilst) Anarchism
Existential Anarchism 
Marios Georgiou  GEORGIOU, Marios   Modernity, Art and the Transfiguration of the Individual in Nietzsche and Adorno
Steven Gormley GORMLEY, Steven

stevengormley [at] hotmail.com
Deliberative and Agonistic Models of Democracy
Deconstruction and Critical Theory
Political Theory
The Concept of Experience 
Democracy and its Dis-contents:  The Open community of Deconstruction
Nancy Graham GRAHAM, Nancy   The Ontology of Tone: The Quality of Dissonance Between Being, Self and Other
  GRAHAM, Lesley

Heidegger on the production of art. Interpretation of the phenomena of the production of work Heidegger's Kant

The moment beyond the horizon

Paul Griffiths  GRIFFITHS, Paul     
Tolga Gungor  GUNGOR, Tolga    
Robert Key  KEY, Robert     
Research Student LUMSDEN, John

Immanence—transcendence relation, Anti-representational accounts of truth, Critical Theory, (Post)Structuralism, Nietzsche, Marx, German Idealism

Dialectics, creativity, rupture: Materialist conceptions of change in Adorno, Deleuze, and Badiou.

Rosalba Mallardo  MALLARDO, Rosalba     
Will Meakins  MEAKINS, Will

wmeaki [at] essex.ac.uk
Emotions, moods and affects in philosophy
Literary and aesthetic theory
Cultural theory
Asian religion and philosophy
Mysticism and occult philosophy
Ethical and political thought
The philosophy of technology
 
Nietzsche and Moods
Jamie Parr  PARR, Jamie Nietzsche
Schopenhauer
Pascal
Heidegger
Deleuze
Existentialism
Phenomenology
Aesthetics
Christianity 
Suffering and Endurance: Nietzsche and Pascal 
Rebeca Perez Leon  PEREZ LEON, Rebeca  Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism
Jacques Derrida's political philosophy
Kant's Third Critique and Contemporary Sociological and Political theories
Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida on the Public/Private Distinction:  Philosophy, Democracy and Education 
Mathijs Peters PETERS, Mathijs

mpeter [at] essex.ac.uk
Critical Theory
Frankfurt School
Nietzsche
Adorno
Foucault
Psychoanalysis
Embodied cognition
Merleau-Ponty
Samuel Todes

A Key to the World: Schopenhauer, Merleau-Ponty and Adorno on the Ethical Dimensions of Corporeality
  PITT, Rebecca

repitt [at] essex.ac.uk
Contemporary French Philosophy
Marxism
Feminism
Phenomenology
Literature and Philosophy
 
Jean-Paul Sartre and the Question of Emancipation
Andrea Piras PIRAS, Andrea

apiras [at] essex.ac.uk
Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, XX Century Philosophy, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Critical theory
Hegel's aesthetics and its relevance in the contemporary age. Art and end of art
Allen Radtke RADTKE, Allen

aradtk [at] essex
Modern Moral and Political Philosophy Democracy, Rights and Corporate Claims to Legal and Moral Agency
Timothy Secret SECRET, Timothy

trsecr [at] essex.ac.uk
Deconstruction
Theory of Mourning
Contemporary French Philosophy
Psychoanalytic Theory
Levinasian Ethics
The Crypt of the Other in the Self: Derrida's Ethics of Mourning
Daniel Swain  SWAIN, Daniel     
  VAN STEENBERGEN, Naomi  Philosophical method
Hermeneutic phenomenology
Modernist music, painting, literature
Wittgenstein
Heidegger
 
Philosophy composed 
Lorcan Whitehead  WHITEHEAD,
Lorcan
   
Alex Williams  WILLIAMS, Alex    
Sum Lung Wong WONG, Sum Lung

slwong [at] essex.ac.uk
Ethics
Aesthetics
Kant
Hegel
Foucault
Foucault's aesthetics of existence
Jonathan Wood  WOOD, Jonathan