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MA Dissertation Titles: 

Sample of MA Dissertation Titles in the Philosophy Department

• Ethics and the Impersonal: A critical assessment of Deleuze’s philosophy of subjectivity.
• Why are we attracted to the repulsive? A philosophical discussion of the attraction of horror literature.
• Moral Norms in Merleau-Ponty.
• Health and Normality: Bio-medicine, Cartesian Dualism and the discourse of Gender.
• Socio-psychotic mechanisms in the end of 20th century.  Heidegger’s Dialectical Conception of Anxiety.
• A Genealogy of Psycho-Analytic Theories of Pathogenesis.
• To what extent should international trade in hazardous waste be permitted?
• Should there be public involvement in environmental policy?
• The Special Immigration Appeals Commissions:  Their Composition, Powers & Legitimacy.
• The ethics of embryonic stem cell research.
• An inquiry into the Hegelian elements in the thought of Max Stirner and Jean-Paul Sartre.
• The Politics of Enemies: Derrida’s Reading of Nietzsche in “Politics of Friendship”.
• The Ethopoietics of Writing.
• From Consciousness to Self-Consciousness: The Problem of Transition in Hegel’s Phenomenology.
• A Dialogue Between the Ethical and Religious Self in Two of Kierkegaard’s Pseudonymous Works.
• Embodied Autonomy.
• Grounds and Justification, or:  How to Read Being and Time.
• Equality of Resources and Global Economic Justice.
• EU and Women in Greece:  The limited participation of women in politics and in decision-making positions in National and European level.
• Adorno, Heidegger and Authenticity in Popular Music.
• Kafka:  Phenomenological and Wittgensteinian Reflections.
• The Question of Redemption in Nietzsche.
• Walter Benjamin’s Messianic History: An Explication and Some Thoughts.
• Dadaist Poker:  Nihilism and the Reformation of Form.
• The Erotic Caress:  An ethical and political examination of Georges Bataille’s theory of eroticism.
• Heidegger’s Theological Estrangements:  St. Paul, St. Augustine and Søren Kierkegaard.
• Life, Tragedy and the Problems of Aging – A Personal Journey.
• “I am Disintegration” (Kahlo)  The Psychoanalytic Significance of the Art of Frida Kahlo.
• The Subject in Pain.
• The Importance of Emotive Creativity in the Development of Moral Autonomy
• Toleration is not enough:  The Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Recognition.
• Freedom, equality and markets.
• Is the principle of Informed Consent appropriate or practical in the Developing World?
• The Question Concerning the Internet and the Problem of Ontological Homelessness.
• Ortega y Casset’s Philosophy.
• The Institutionalisation of Law – Challenging Philosophy:  A Study of Deconstruction and Law Through Shakespeare’s Richard II.
• Passions for the Real:  Zizek, Adorno, and Art after September 11.
• The Psychoanalytic Task and Unconscious Truth in Winnicott and Bion.
• Corruption in Mexico:  The Relationship between the Public and Private Sectors.
• Where Should the Ethical Limit on a Market in Human Organs be Placed?
• A New Way Forward for the Oldest Profession?  Prostitution Policy in the UK.
• Campaign Finance Reform in the USA:  The Limits of Free Speech.
• Is there a Right to Have Children?
• Foucault’s Ethical Subject.
• Nietzsche’s Naturalism Versus Hegel’s Dialectic.
• Self-creation on Concrete Grounds:  Resistance and Rebellion in Foucault and Camus.
• A Reading of Ernst Bloch’s Spirit of Utopia.
• Existence and the Self.
• An interpretation of Nihilism as a ‘Fundamental Attunement’ of Nietzsche’s Thinking:  The Transfigurations of Faith, Hope and Charity into the ‘Tragic Pathos’.
• Psychoanalysis and the Critique of Culture.
• The role of breastfeeding.  A Psychoanalytical study into the role of breastfeeding in relation to the bond between mother and baby.
• The Question Concerning the Internet and the Problem of Ontological Homelessness.
• Kant and Hegel on the Ontological Argument.
• The Aesthetics–Ethics Relation after Badiou.
• Kant’s theory of how the dynamic sublime and the supersensible can be communicated to others through the fine art of a genius.
• Carnap and Heidegger on the role of logic in philosophy.
• A Wittgensteinian Critique of Melanie Klein.
• Psychoanalytic Narratives of Subject Formation in Freud and Lacan.
• Authenticity and Inauthenticity in Heidegger’s Being and Time.
• Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Peace.
• Recognition and the Ethical Relation:  An Encounter Between Hegel & Levinas.
• The path to freedom through the rationalization of the passions.
• A philosophical & psychological approach to personal happiness.
• Climate Change:  An insurmountable policy challenge?
• Is citizenship education compatible with liberalism?
• The appropriation of Aristotle by Heidegger.
• Can Art be Conceptual?
• The Role of the Individual in Marxist Philosophy of History:  A Comparative Study of Plekhanov and Sartre.
• Science and Moods in ‘Human all too Human’.
• ‘Freedom under the Law’: Adorno’s Negative Dialectic of Freedom.
• Freedom, Self-Relation, and the Event:  Kierkegaard’s Corrective Contribution to Alain Badiou’s Concept of Decision.
• Does the death drive have a future in Psychoanalytical thinking?
• Is Ethnic Profiling a justifiable measure to combat global terrorism?
• Should there be limits on campaign expenditure?  If so, by what principle?
• Presumptive Self-Defence in Low-Intensity Conflict: An Unrecognized Right?