Current PhD theses
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.
The following philosophy PhD theses are currently being carried out in our School:
- Anna Antaloudaki, The second count: representation in Being and Event and the reversal of Plato
- Vivienne Ashely, Great expectations: autonomous decision making, being responsible and social welfare entitlement
- David Batho, The problem of illusion in Heidegger’s philosophy of perception
- Hugh Palmer Brown, How should an individualistic liberal theory account for collective democratic decision-taking?
- Goedele Caluwe, The relation between ethics and politics in Levinas: an animal question
- Alex Carter, Freedom and fatalism as attitudes in Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Freedom of the Will
- Emily Fitton, Kant’s regulative/constituitive distinction and Maimon’s rationalism
- Nathan Fretwell, Existential anarchism
- Marios Georgiou, Modernity, art and the transfiguration of the individual in Nietzsche and Adorno
- Lesley Graham, The moment beyond the horizon, Heidegger on the production of art, interpretation of the phenomena of the production of work, Heidegger’s Kant
- Paul Griffiths, Some causal arguments against direct realism
- Tolga Gungor, Hegel on death and negation
- John Lumsden, Dialectics, creativity, rupture: materialist conceptions of change in Adorno, Deleuze and Badiou
- Rosalba Mallardo, The dilemmas of autonomous reason. Critique after Hegel. Taylor, Foucault, Habermas
- Giovanni Mascaretti, An 'ontology of actuality': a comparative analysis of the work of Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault
- Gillian Nicole Osborne, Spinoza and pleasure
- Jamie Parr, Suffering and endurance: Nietzsche and Pascal
- Rebeca Peréz León, Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida on the public/private distinction: philosophy, democracy and education
- Allen Radtke, Democracy, rights and corporate claims to legal and moral agency
- Pavel Reichl, Heidegger and the idealist tradition, object constitution, world disclosure, and unconcealedness of being
- Renée Reitsma, Guilt and redemption: Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity and beyond
- Daniel Swain, Marx's Ethical Critique of Capitalism
- Naomi Van Steenbergen, Philosophy composed
- Lorcan Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty's Thesis of Perceptual Ambiguity
- Tom Whyman, McDowell and Adorno: second nature and the possibilities of critical rationality
- Jonathan Wood, Korsgaard and Kierkegaard on the paradox of self-constitution
Completed PhD theses
A list of completed philosophy PhD theses can be found on our Albert Sloman Library catalogue,
and are available for consultation in the library.