Current PhD researchers

Wassim is researching the topic of forgiveness and how it relates to retributive justice. 

His research interests and work fall in two broad areas. The main area is the intersection of philosophy of action and moral philosophy. In this area, Pascal works on the intentional and the normative dimensions of human behaviour.

Ed's main research interests are philosophy of mind, philosophy of emotion, epistemology and rationality.

David's research is on 'Thinking Parts: A defense of a dual psychological and physical continuity approach to Personal Identity.'

Sam’s interests span the intersections between philosophy of religion, metaethics, and free will. His PhD work focuses on assessing theistic moral arguments from moral realism and their implications on theistic metaethics and the problem of evil.

Can is interested in philosophy of mind. Her research currently focuses on studying consciousness and physicalism.

Her areas of study include Environmental Ethics and Global Justice. She is interested in addressing the ethical breaches caused by the transfer of hazardous technology to developing nations.

Carlos’ research within eudaimonistic virtue ethics, argues that one’s pursuit of their own flourishing, which comes by cultivating and acting according to virtue, does not lead to objectionable partiality neither does it limit one’s disposition to extend concern for others beyond their circle of family, friends and co-citizens.

Rae’s work focuses on Feminist philosophy and ideas surrounding whether or not we can consent to violent acts during sex.

Yuhan is interested in emotion and moral psychology. She is also interested in emotion in cinematic experience.

Jack works in the epistemology of testimony. His research focuses on the question of how we discriminate between bits of testimony and what explains the manner in which we do this.

His current research at Sheffield continues to investigate the intersection of Kant and the post-Kantians in the field of cognition, aiming at developing an authentically Kantian account of intellectual intuition and tracing the evolution of post-Kantian thought. 

Roderick's main research interest involves understanding the relationship between the philosophies of Søren Kierkegaard's and Theodor W. Adorno.

Tareeq's research interests include social philosophy, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, philosophy of art and moral philosophy.

Ben’s PhD is on the heterogeneity of bias, with a focus on implicit cognition. 

Thomas is currently working on a WRoCAH funded PhD titled: ‘Can Confucianism’s Relational and Rooted Picture of the Self Help Us Understand the Values of Modern National (Right-Wing) Populist Voters in the UK and US?’

His current research project is naturalistic interpretation of moral progress. Especially, he focuses on what Adam Smith’s explanation of moral judgment and John Dewey’s view of moral deliberation suggest in the methodology for moral progress.

Sebastián is currently working on philosophical problems surrounding the justification of state punishment, and specifically on those related to the authority to punish and its permissibility.

Charlie Studied an MA and MRes in Philosophy at Birkbeck. His main interests are the meaning of life, self-interest, global poverty, metaethics and practical ethics.

Álvaro's research is on Kant's theory of freedom relating to The Critique of Judgment. His other interests include the philosophy of action, the philosophy of biology, metaphysics and metaethics.

Tahmina's research is on Postcolonial Multiculturalism: The Politics of Group Rights and Identity 

Carien works on the epistemology and morality of belief, specifically  conspiracy theory beliefs.

His research considers how intellectual humility can promote close friendship between people of different backgrounds.

Leonard‘s main research interests are metaphysics and German idealism, focussing especially on the conception of individual substances in Hegel and Schelling.

Elliott's research looks at the ethics and justice of intentional climate modification, or 'geoengineering'. He is interested in public perceptions of geoengineering technologies as 'messing with nature'.