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Postgraduate researchers

Nathan Bernard-Carlin

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Supervisor:  Owen Hulatt

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Philosophy, phenomenology, agency, simulated reality, virtual reality, video games, video game ethics, video game aesthetics, digital embodiment, tele-presence and immersion.

Supervisor:  Keith Allen

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Can Artificial Ethical Assistants Enhance Human Decision-Making in Ethics?

Supervisor: AP Thomas

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Thick concepts and reasons for action

Supervisor: Mary Leng

Richard Dennison

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Shame and guilt, with a particular emphasis on their phenomenology and the influence they have on self and intersubjectivity

Supervisor:  Keith Allen

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The role of perception and cognition in aesthetic experience

Supervisor: Gregory Currie

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A Phenomenological Analysis of Self in Complex Trauma

Supervisor: Matthew Ratcliffe

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An historical review and reconstruction of 'reification'

Supervisor: James Clarke and Owen Hulatt

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Understanding Gender Identity

Supervisor: Mary Leng

Harmony Ezeuko

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Consciousness as Self-Knowledge: A 'Process-Model' of Consciousness

Supervisor: Tom Stoneham

Tom Forman

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Ethics, AI and Cyberwarfare

Supervisor:  Tom Stoneham

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Spacial structure of the sense modalities

Supervisor: Louise Richardson and Keith Allen

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Post-truth as a Struggle for Recognition: a critical analysis of ideology, identity, and institutions in knowledge preservation

Supervisor: James Clarke and Owen Hulatt

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Digital Property and Associated Rights

Supervisor: Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott and Alan Thomas

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Phenomenology of suffering and expression

Supervisor:  Matthew Ratcliffe

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Olfaction, Gustation and Aesthetics

Supervisor: Louise Richardson

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What is the relationship between spacetime and matter?

Supervisor: Rob Trueman

Nick Meadowcroft-Lunn

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Supervisor: Mary Leng

Gabriel Nemirovsky

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Supervisor: AP Thomas

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Should we accept the existence of mathematical objects? An evaluation of mathematical fictionalist attempts to remove ontological commitment to mathematical entities

Supervisor: Mary Leng

Allyson Obber

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The Legitimacy of the Special Arrangement Question

Supervisor: David Ingram

Heather Perfect

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Omnisubjectivity: Can God know exactly what it is like to be me? /Can a successful account of how God gains knowledge of individual subjective experience be provided? 

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'Common sense' as a path to resilient autonomous systems 

Supervisors: Professor Alan Thomas and Professor Radu Calinescu 

Guangwei Teng

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Supervisor:  Tom Stoneham

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Can the evolutionary naturalist account for realism in metaphysics and science?

Supervisors: Mary Leng and Tom Stoneham

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Margaret Cavendish's philosophy of mind

Supervisor: Keith Allen

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Hegelian Theory of Justice and Roman Republicanism

Supervisor: AP Thomas

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A theory of forgiveness

Supervisors: Christian Piller and Martin O'Neill

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What it is like to have Dementia: A Phenomenological Study

Supervisor: Matthew Ratcliffe

Chenyizhen Zhang

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What does it mean to be present in face to self and others?

Supervisor: Keith Allen

Daoyuan Zhang

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My research project is on the experience of boredom, analysing what it is and how it is. My research is conducted by Schopenhauer’s theory, Heidegger’s theory, and some phenomenology, but not limited.

Supervisor:  Tom Stoneham