Guxing Chen a visiting PhD student from China with Professor Rowland Stout, host for the visit
Current PhD & MLitt Students
| Agra, Kelly Louise Rexzy Supervisor: Maeve Cooke Topic: Epistemic Injustice & Philosophy |
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| Kelly Agra is an Irish Research Council (IRC) postgraduate scholar and was the Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives: UCD Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy, Volume 9, Special Issue in Social Philosophy. She is affiliated with the University of the Philippines Baguio, as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy (on study leave), and is a core member of the Women Doing Philosophy (WDP) group in the Philippines, of Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) UCD Chapter, and of the Transnational Humanities PhD (TNH-PhD) Network at the UCD Humanities Institute (HI). Her work falls within the intersections of Critical Social Theory and Social Epistemology, but as enriched by Decolonial and Feminist Epistemologies. She has published on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, in Comparative Philosophy, and on Epistemic Injustice, among others. Her most recent publications are "Resilient Resistance and Resistant Knowledge Projects: Subtracting Resilience from Neoliberalism" (Upcoming), “A Critical Theory of Epistemic Injustice” in Perspectives Vol. 9 (Winter 2021), and “Epistemic Injustice, Epistemic Paralysis, and Epistemic Resistance: A (Feminist) Liberatroy Approach to Epistemology” in Kritike 14 (1) (June 2020). Her doctoral research is entitled "Epistemic Paralysis” and is funded by the IRC, University of the Philippines (UP), and University College Dublin. |
| Athanassiadis, Antoine Supervisor: Brian O'Connor Topic: Social Critique in Adorno & Foucault |
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| Beggan, Liam Supervisor: Maria Baghramian Topic: Noam Chomsky’s Early Use of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Philosophy of Language |
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| Buholzer, August Supervisor: Jim O'Shea Topic: Kant's Theory of Representation |
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| Burakowska, Natalia Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge Topic: The Phenomenology of Dementia: An Embodied-Cognitive Account |
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| Campillo Bo, Álvaro Supervisor: Dragos Calma Topic: The Latin Legacy of Proclus' Commentary on Euclid |
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| Casellato, Maria Agnese Supervisor: Maria Baghramian Topic: Linguistic Reference: Descriptive, Externalism and a Middle Course |
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| Condon, Berniann (PhD in Cognitive Science) Supervisor: Maria Baghramian Topic: Image Perception |
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| Corlett, Naomi Supervisor: Daniel Esmonde Deasy Topic: Epistemic & Modal Opens of the Future |
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| De Mattia, Antonio Pio Supervisor: Joseph Cohen Topic: The Persistence of Transcendental Flaw in Philosophy Critical & Self-Reflexive Diskurs as Confutative Method of Inquiry? |
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| Dijker, Lucas Supervisor: Maria Baghramian Topic: Trustworthy Expertise: Analysing & Judging Populist & Technocratic Politics |
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| D'Ippolito, Armando Supervisor: Tim Crowley Topic: Plato’s Doctrine of Light: Between Mythos and Episteme |
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| Dmuchowska, Marta Supervisor: Tatjana von Solodkoff Topic: TBA |
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| Doyle, Andrew Supervisor: Lisa Foran Topic: On the Being of the Philosophical Lecture |
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| Dunne, Seamus (MLitt) Supervisor: Brian O'Connor Topic: Agents & Agency - The Relationship of Agents to their Motives, Reasons, Intentions & Actions Embodied in the Social World |
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| Dwyer, Austin (PhD in Cognitive Science) Supervisor: Fred Cummins Topic: Cognitive Science in Philosophy |
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| Favier, Killian Supervisor: Brian O'Connor Topic: Acceleration & Capitalism: Temporality of the Anthropocene |
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| Ferns, Samuel Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge Topic: Freedom, Knowledge & Power: Reflexive Stage in the Grammars of Critical Social Theory |
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| Filea, Evie Supervisor: Lisa Foran Topic: The Phenomenological Implications & Influences of Edward Bond’s Theory of Theatre |
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| Evie Filea is a philosophy PhD Candidate in University College Dublin working under the supervision of Dr Lisa Foran on a project that examines several aspects of Martin Heidegger’s early philosophy in relation to Edward Bond’s late dramaturgy. Her main research interests are broadly focused on the performativity of philosophy, history of philosophy, and philosophy in education. She holds a MA in Consciousness & Embodiment from UCD, a MA in Drama in Education from Trinity College Dublin, and a BA in Pedagogy from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has presented her work in several international Conferences and workshops, and she is often invited as a guest speaker in interdisciplinary events. |
| Goksoy, Seckin (MLitt) Supervisor: Joseph Cohen Topic: Politics of Animality & Aesthetics |
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| Guardascione, Alessandro Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge Topic: Values & Selfhood in Psychopathology: A Phenomenological Account |
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| Hariri, Muhannad Supervisor: Jim O'Shea Topic: Inferential Intuitions: Evil in Kant & Levinas: Combining Insights in a Novel Theory of Moral Imagination |
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| Kaneko, Miho Supervisor: Tatjana von Solodkoff Topic: Can a Kind Essentialist Account of Instantiation Explain the Authorial Creation of Fictional Characters? |
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| Kelly, Denise Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge Topic: On Being (an Outsider): A Phenomenological Exploration of Social Phobia and Agoraphobia |
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| Denise is an Irish Research Council (IRC) Government of Ireland Scholarship Awardee whose research is centred in phenomenological psychopathology. Her thesis, entitled 'What About Phobias? An Investigation of Agoraphobia and Social Phobia from a Philosophical and Clinical Perspective' takes an existential-phenomenological approach with a view to elucidate the lived experience of those who suffer from these illnesses. She was a founding member of the Minorities and Philosophy UCD Chapter. She also works with the UCD Centre for Ethics and Public Life, and is a Judge for the Irish Young Philosopher Awards. |
| Kwon, Haikyung Supervisor: Brian O'Connor Topic: Negative Dialectic as a Model for ‘Concrete Thinking’ – Adorno’s Formal Dialectic in Relation to Hegel |
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| Lewis, Thomas Supervisor: Joseph Cohen Topic: The Eternal Return & the Philosophy of the Future |
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| Masterton, Steven Supervisor: Tim Crowley Topic: Political Tenets: Virtue, Imperatives & Moral Exemplars |
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| Mellema, Pepa (Ad Astra PhD) Supervisor: Elmar Unnsteinsson Topic: The Semantics & Pragmatics of Pejoratives |
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| Modarres, Benjamin Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge Topic: The Phenmenological Particularity of Poetry |
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| Molinaro, Maria Giulia Supervisor: Joseph Cohen Topic: To What Extent & With What Effects War, Understood as a Contemporary Historical Phenomenon, is Normalised |
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| Maria Giulia Molinaro is a PhD candiate in the School of Philosophy. Her research touches on the fields of philosophy and sociology. In a nutshell, it is about Normalisation and Naturalisation of War in NATO Countries after 9/11. She is a member of the international group MAP - Minorities and Philosophy working on the Digital & Communication Committee, and the coordinator of the Work in Progess (WiP) Seminars. Besides explaining why normalising war-mentalities is bad. she loves photography, volunteering, reading Tolkien, studying botany, watching paintings, and listening to and playing Irish folk music. |
| Nanni, Laura Jane BA, HDip, PGDE, MA Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge Topic: Between Self & Other: The Primacy of Intersubjectivity in Husserl and Honneth |
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| Nuwe Agabah, Patrick Supervisor: Maeve Cooke Topic: Is There a Need To Liberate Basic Human Rghts From the Limitations of Culture? |
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| Papazian, Meline (PhD in Cognitive Science) Supervisor: Rowland Stout Topic: TBA |
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| Phipps, Aisling Supervisor: Ruth Boeker Topic: Parallels Between Personal Identity & Morality: The Effects of Identity Disturbance on Developing the Moral System in an Individual with Borderline Personality Disorder |
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| Pret Theodore, Roxane Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge Topic: Rethinking Political Organisation from a Feminist Standpoint Politicizing an Ethics of Care and Vulnerability |
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| Pringle, John (MLitt) Supervisor: Jim O'Shea Topic: Empirical Method applied to a Problem in Ethics, such as Intuitionism or Mind/Body & Behaviourism |
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| Rogers, John (Leave of Absence) Supervisor: Daniel Esmonde Deasy Topic: Newman & Planting on the Epistemic Status of Religious Belief |
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| Russell, Rachel Supervisor: Dan Deasey Topic: Timelessness: Metaphysics & Perception in a Timeless World |
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| Saintemarie, Clémence Supervisor: Maeve Cooke Topic: The Aesthetic is Political: A Critical Phenomenology of Social In/Visibility: Perception, Representation, the Imaginary |
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| Smith, Robert Supervisor: Markus Schlosser Topic: The Nonconceptual Epistemological Limit: The Normative-Affective Disposition |
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| Stéphan, Alix Supervisor: Joseph Cohen Topic: The Spy as a Philosophical Figure |
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| Alix Stéphan holds a Master's degree in Political Philosophy from Sorbonne Université and a Master's degree in Political Theory from Sciences Po. Her interests are in continental philosophy; political philosophy and the link between philosophy, literature and art. Her thesis is entitled "The spy as a philosophical figure", which aims at conceptualizing an often forgotten figure in philosophy, with the help of philosophical and literary texts as well as resources coming from visual arts. |
| Sun, Fanqi Supervisor: Joseph Cohen Topic: Nietzsche's Life Philosophy |
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| Vanderkwaak, Matthew Supervisor: Dragos Calma Topic: Polytheis & the Liber de Causis |
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| Vitale, Giuseppe Supervisor: Dragos Calma Topic: Aliquid Amplius. Berthold of Moosburg's Neoplatonism as Going Beyond Metaphysics |
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| Webber, Grace (MLitt) Supervisor: Katherine O'Donnell Topic:Sexistentialism: A Radical Theory of Sexual Politics |
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| Wren, Jonathan Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge Topic: The Political Implications of Freedom & Sharing: From Heidegger to Arendt & Nancy |
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| Xu, Shengwei Supervisor: Brian O'Connor Topic: The Free Development of the Individual & All: Sartre & Adorno on Freedom |
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Recently completed students
| Banfi, Luca |
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| Bizra, Rana |
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| Burns, Tim - Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University (USA) |
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| Cosgrave, Bernard |
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| Cherouvis, Stephanos - Research & Development, Ellinogermaniki Agogi (Greece) |
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| Castagnoli, Andrea |
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| Cummins, Hugh |
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| Drumm, Eugene (MLitt) |
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| Doyle, Siobhan - Philosophy Lecturer in SMSI College, Dunlaoghaire |
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| Dolezal, Luna - Lecturer, Philosophy & Medical Humanities, University of Exeter |
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| Dong, Le |
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| Ennis, Paul - Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems, Quinn School, University College Dublin |
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| Foley, Robert - Postdoctoral Fellow, Rotman Institute, University of Western Ontario |
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| Foran, Lisa - Assistant Professor, UCD School of Philosophy |
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| Gallagher, Michael (MLitt) |
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| Giannankakis, Evangelos |
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| Guedj-Cohen, Sacha |
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| Hogan, Sinéad - Lecturer, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology |
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| Hyland, Sheena - Lecturer in Educational Development, UCD Teaching & Learning, University College Dublin |
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| James, Seferin |
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| Kinsella, Maurice |
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| Kretzschmar, Sven (MLitt) - Research Fellow in Health Sciences, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg (Germany) |
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| Lennon, Damien |
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| CLim, Kimberly (MLitt) |
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| Marini, Simone - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin |
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| McGuire, John - Teaching Fellow, UCD School of Philosophy/Marie Curie Global Research Fellow, UCD/McMaster University (Canada) |
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| Millan, Daniel |
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| Mitchell, Jonathan |
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| Murphy, Christopher |
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| Morrissey, Brian |
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| Murphy, Christopher |
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| Newman, Hugo |
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| Nic Eodhasa, Emma1 |
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| Nicholson, Anna |
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| O'Connor, Andrew (MLitt) |
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| Ó Madagáin, Caoimhín (MLitt) |
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| Petropoulos, Georgios - Teaching Fellow, UCD School of Philosophy |
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| Shanahan, Mary Kennedy - Lecturer in Religious Education, St Angela's College, Sligo |
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| Sorem, Erik - Adjunct Professor, Azusa Pacific University (USA) |
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| Uljée, Rozemund - University Lecturer, Leiden University |
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| Vaughan, Connell - Lecturer in Aesthetics and Critical Theory in the Dublin School of Creative Arts (DIT) |
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| Walsh, Jason - Journalist |
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| Wong, Shuk Ling Lilian (MLitt) |
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| Zhang, Junguo |
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