Phenomenology
Undergraduate study
Undergraduate study in philosophy at Essex offers a unique combination of analytic Anglo-American and European continental
philosophical traditions.
Phenomenology is a central concern for Philosophy at Essex. Each year we offer at least
one MA module in phenomenology and many current PhD students are currently exploring phenomenological
approaches to subjects such as perception, ethics and psychiatric disorder.
Six members of academic staff have research interests in phenomenology:
- Professor Béatrice Han-Pile has published extensively on Heidegger and on post-Heideggerian French
philosophy. Her publications include Foucault’s Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and The Historical (Stanford University Press, 2002)
- Professor Wayne Martin is the author of Theories of Judgment: Psychology, Logic,
Phenomenology, (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and has published widely on Husserl.
- Dr Fiona Hughes works on Merleau-Ponty, and on the relationship between phenomenology and art. Her
publications include Kant’s Aesthetic Epistemology: Form and World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
- Dr Irene McMullin joins us in June 2013. She is the author of Time and the Shared World: Heidegger on Social
Relations (Northwestern University Press, 2013).
- Dr Steven Gormley joined us in 2012 and has worked on Husserl and Derrida.
- Dr Dan Watts works on phenomenology, Kierkegaard and self-consciousness.
Phenomenology Werkstatt
Academic staff and graduate students working on phenomenology regularly meet in the Werkstatt, a research group in which work in progress is discussed and developed.
Watch our phenomenology videos
Every year we run Philosophy Crash Courses for our students, offering a series of introductory lectures on particular philosophical topics. Past subjects have included phenomenology:
Postgraduate study
We are internationally recognised as a leading centre of postgraduate study in philosophy, both at Masters and PhD level.
PhD study
By undertaking PhD study at Essex, you will become a member of an exciting and active research community, and benefit from the expert supervision of
our internationally recognised staff.
Critical theory
We are the largest centre of research on Frankfurt School critical theory in the UK with many of our staff and students
actively researching philosophers
such as Adorno, Habermas and Honneth.
German philosophy
Classical German philosophy is a major area of research and teaching at Essex. Many of our academic staff are experts on Kant and the post-Kantian
tradition including Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche.