Current MPhil and PhD students
Bernardo Aguilera
Bernardo studied medicine and cognitive studies in Chile. Then his interests turned to philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and philosophy of language. His PhD research is on the origins of mental representation and animal cognition.
Charlotte Alderwick
Charlotte is working on concepts of free will in German Idealism, in particular in Schelling and Hegel. She is interested in how the post-Kantian idealists try to argue that the freedom of agents is within rather than opposed to the natural order. She hopes to link this with contemporary debates about the metaphysics of free will.
Frank Arthurs
Alex Baker-Graham
Jessica Begon
Angela Bird
Peter Caven
Peter's main research interests are in ethical theory, moral psychology and political philosophy. His PhD thesis aims to develop an empirical account of intercultural and intracultural moral disagreement and discuss the political implications of such an account.
Ryan Doran
Carlos Felippe
Joshua Forstenzer
Joshua's doctoral research seeks to bring John Dewey's conceptions of democracy and citizenship to bear on contemporary debates relating to method in political philosophy; specifically, he aims to argue that Dewey provides an account of democratic political processes which can prove to be useful for political philosophers seeking to engage with political practice. More generally though, he is interested in political philosophy, the history of political thought, American Pragmatism, ethics and social philosophy. Joshua also has interests in continental philosophy, the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of education.
Carl Fox
Carl's work is in political and moral philosophy. His PhD thesis is about the relationship between legitimacy, obligation, and autonomy in social-contract theory.
Paul Giladi
Paul received a BA and an MPhil from King's College London, and his PhD thesis is on Hegel's critique and development of Kantian theoretical philosophy. His philosophical interests are Early Modern Philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Language.
Richard Healey
Richard works in moral and political philosophy. He is especially interested in the role of consent in normative situations. Consent is often said to alter normative situations in important ways. Richard's thesis explores the limits of the power of consent.
Stephen Ingram
Stephen's main interests are in moral and political philosophy, but he is also interested in metaphysics and the philosophy of agency. His PhD research is on global and unified accounts of normativity.
Katharine Jenkins
Katharine's philosophical interests include feminism, critical race philosophy, applied ethics, critical theory, and the philosophy of personal identity. She is writing her PhD on justice and the ontology of social identity categories, supervised by Jenny Saul and Miranda Fricker.
Prajesh Kalarikkal Unnikrishnan
Jan Kandiyali
Jan's interests are in social and political philosophy and its history. His PhD focuses on Marx's vision of the good life and the idea of a society of mutually producing individuals, arguing that a particular account of this society--that which Marx proposes in his Notes on James Mill--is a highly original and potentially attractive conception of the good life, one which can answer a number of problems facing Marx's later and generally more well-known accounts of communism. Jan is on the organising committee of the Marx and Philosophy Society, and is editorial assistant for the European Journal of Philosophy.
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Nicola Kemp
Armin Khameh
Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko
Joe's thesis is in the area of social philosophy; specifically considering the relation of the collective perspective to problems of cooperation such as the prisoner's dilemma. His general research interests range from group belief (and other group attributes) to the folly of individualism. Occasionally he likes to dip his toe into radical political theory.
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Simon Kittle
Simon's main research is in the area of philosophy of action. More specifically, he is concerned with the metaphysics of human abilities and with the semantics of statements ascribing such abilities. Simon is also interested in metaphysics more widely, as well as in the philosophy of religion.
Simon's email address simonkittle.com
Damiano La Manna
Damiano has a BA from the University of Palermo and an MA from the University of Leiden. His PhD research is on phenomenal consciousness and its relation to perception. Other interests include ancient and medieval philosophy.
Natasha McKeever
Natasha is interested in Political and Moral Philosophy, and in particular in sexual ethics. She is currently writing her PhD thesis on the subject of monogamy under the supervision of Christopher Bennett.
Jonathan Parry
Jonathan's research is in applied ethics and political philosophy. His PhD thesis is about whether fighting on behalf of a legitimate authority is necessary to justify combat in war.
Jonathan Payne
Jonathan's principal interest is in philosophy of mathematics and in particular neo-logicism. He is interested especially in the interaction of two features of neo-logicism, namely the problem of 'bad company' and attempts to build a neo-logicist foundation of set theory.
Angie Pepper
Angie’s PhD thesis is on feminism and global justice. More specifically, she is attempting to show that cosmopolitanism is the only approach to global justice that feminists can coherently take. Besides Political Philosophy and Feminism, she is also interested in Philosophy of Education, Normative Ethics, playing scrabble, and going to the pub!
Bernardo Pino
Bernardo did his BA and MA at the University of Chile. His research is in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, more specifically the study of concepts. His PhD examines amodal theories of the human conceptual system.
Lindsey Porter
Lindsey has recently completed a PhD on the moral status of children. She wrote an Mphil on pragmatics and her BA focused on formal logic and metaphysics.
Philipp Rau
Philipp works mainly in the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. He is particularly interested in applying empirical findings to philosophical questions. His PhD research is about whether the capacity for so-called autobiographical memory can provide a sense of psychologically continuous 'self' that many philosophers since Locke have taken to be the mark of personal identity.
Paniel Reyes Cardenas
Paniel's interests include pragmatism, the philosophy of language and ontology.
Cristina Roadevin
Cristina's main interest is moral philosophy. Her PhD thesis explores issues related to blame, moral responsibility, and forgiveness.
Joe Saunders
Joe completed his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He then moved to Sheffield to undertake a PhD on freedom in Kant (and specifically Groundwork III). His main interests lie in practical reason, freedom, meta-ethics, and the relationship between these areas. He is also interested in the history of philosophy, especially Kant and the post-Kantian tradition.
Inga Vermeulen
Inga's thesis is about the role of conceptual and verbal issues in philosophy. Do we need conceptual analysis to settle the subject matter of inquiry? Does revising concepts merely change the subject? How can we clarify contested concepts and avoid biases or persuasive definitions? Are some philosophical disputes merely verbal? She defends a pragmatic view on these issues, inspired by Carnap's method of explication and Lewis's notion of a subject matter.
Jack Wadham
Jack's interests include pragmatism (especially Dewey and Rorty), phenomenology (especially Heidegger) and cognitive studies (especially embodied and embedded theories of cognition).
Sam Waters
Stephen Wright
Stephen is currently working on his PhD thesis under the supervision of Paul Faulkner on the subject of trust, both in terms of what makes trusting distinct from other similar relationships such as relying and depending and its role in the epistemology of testimony. His other interests include metaphysics and the philosophy of science.