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Current and Recent Doctoral Research

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Current Research Students

Student Research Interests Thesis Title
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 

Great Expectations: Autonomous Decision Making, Being Responsible and Social Welfare Entitlement.

David Batho  BATHO, David  The Problem of Illusion in Heidegger's Philosophy of Perception  Heidegger and Perceptual Error
Hugh Palmer Brown  BROWN, Hugh Palmer Political Philosophy
Rawls
Habermas
Liberalism
Multiculturalism
how should an individualistic liberal theory account for collective democratic decsion-taking?
Goedele Caluwe CALUWE, Goedele   The relation between ethics and politics in Levinas: An animal question
Alex Carter  CARTER, Alex

Philosophy of language
Philosophy or religion authorship of actions
Wittgenstein, Simone Weil 
Freedom & Fatalism in Wittgenstein's 'Lectures on the Freedom of the Will'
Emily Fitton FITTON, Emily   Kant's regulative /constitutive distinction and Maimon's rationalism
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
  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    Some Causal Arguments Against Direct Realism
Tolga Gungor  GUNGOR, Tolga   Hegel on Death and Negation
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    The Dilemmas of Autonomous Reason.  Critique after Hegel.  Taylor, Foucault, Habermas
Giovanni Mascaretti MASCARETTI, Giovanni   An “Ontology of Actuality”: A Comparative Analysis of the Work of Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault
Nicole Osborne OSBORNE, Gillian Nicole   Spinoza and Pleasure
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 
Allen Radtke RADTKE, Allen

aradtk [at] essex
Modern Moral and Political Philosophy Democracy, Rights and Corporate Claims to Legal and Moral Agency
Pavel Reichl REICHL, Pavel   Heidegger and the Idealist Tradition: Object Constitution, World Disclosure, and Unconcealedness of Being.
Renee Reitsma REITSMA, Renee   Guilt and redemption: Nietzsche's critique of Christianity and beyond.
Daniel Swain  SWAIN, Daniel    Marx's Ethical Critique of Capitalism
  VAN STEENBERGEN, Naomi  Philosophical method
Hermeneutic phenomenology
Modernist music, painting, literature
Wittgenstein
Heidegger
 
Philosophy composed 
Lorcan Whitehead  WHITEHEAD,
Lorcan
 

Merleau-Ponty's Thesis of Perceptual Ambiguity


Thomas Whyman
WHYMAN,
Tom
  McDowell and Adorno: Second Nature and the Possibility of Critical Rationality
Alex Williams  WILLIAMS, Alex    
Jonathan Wood  WOOD, Jonathan    Korsgaard and Kierkegaard on the Paradox of Self-Constitution