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Postgraduate researchers

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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

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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

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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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The Limits of Liberal Constitutionalism

Supervisor: Martin O'Neill and Alan Thomas

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Digital Property and Associated Rights

Supervisor: Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott and Alan Thomas

Postdoctoral researcher

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Olfaction, Gustation and Aesthetics

Supervisor: Louise Richardson

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Deflationary Neutral Monism: one order of existence and power

Supervisor: Paul Noordhof

William Kilborn

Daniel Kim

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The Biomimicry of Sentience as a Path to AGI

Supervisor: Tom Stoneham

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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

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Phenomenology, Self-Respect, and Justice: Creating a Dialogue Between French Phenomenology and a Rawlsian Approach to Justice

Supervisors: Matthew Ratcliffe and Martin O'Neill

Jo Payne

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Supervisor: AP Thomas

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Interpersonal relationships in depression: the individual as a spectator

Supervisors: Keith Allen and Matthew Ratcliffe

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'Common sense' as a path to resilient autonomous systems 

Supervisors: Professor Alan Thomas and Professor Radu Calinescu 

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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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What is a Philosophical Novel? Exploring the Significant Philosophical Contributions Made By Literature

Supervisor: Peter Lamarque

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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

Postdoctoral Researcher

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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

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Phenomenology of suffering and expression

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