Margot Kuylen
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Final year PhD student in Philosophy, working on the structures of agency in self-oppression. Project Officer for the Essex Autonomy Project. GTA for the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies.
Qualifications
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MA in Philosophy University of Essex (2015)
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BA in Philosophy University of Antwerp (2014)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Hyperkrasia: Structures of Agency in Self-Oppression
My doctoral thesis aims to investigate the structures of agency at work in self-oppression. In doing so, it draws on, but also formulates some challenges to, Aristotle's philosophy of action, Self-Determination Theory, and the works of Michel Foucault. Pairing a conceptual approach to the question of self-oppression with a more empirical approach, the thesis concludes with a case study on experiences of agency and self-oppression in anorexia nervosa.
Supervisor: Wayne Martin