Current PhD students
Agra, Kelly Louise Rexzy
Supervisor: Maeve Cooke
Topic: Epistemic Injustice and Philosophy
Athanassiadis, Antoine
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor
Topic: Social Critique in Adorno and Foucault
Beggan, Liam
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian
Topic: Noam Chomsky’s early use of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Philosophy of Language
Boudin, Andrea
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor
Topic: Philosophical Perspectives on the Acceptance of Mortality
Buholzer, August
Supervisor: Jim O'Shea
Topic: Kant's Theory of Representation
Burakowska, Natalia
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Topic: The Phenomenology of Dementia: An Embodied-Cognitive Account
Campillo Bo, Álvaro
Supervisor: Dragos Calma
Topic: The Latin Legacy of Proclus' Commentary on Euclid
Casellato, Maria Agnese
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian
Topic: Linguistic Reference: Descriptive, Externalism and a Middle Course
Condon, Berniann (PhD in Cognitive Science)
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian
Topic: Image Perception
Corlett, Naomi
Supervisor: Daniel Esmonde Deasy
Topic: Epistemic and Modal Opens of the Future
Dijker, Lucas
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian
Topic: Trustworthy Expertise: Analysing and Judging Populist and Technocratic Politics
D'Ippolito, Armando
Supervisor: Tim Crowley
Topic: Plato’s Doctrine of Light: Between Mythos and Episteme
Dmuchowska, Marta
Supervisor: Tatjana von Solodkoff
Topic: TBA
Doyle, Andrew
Supervisor: Lisa Foran
Topic: On the Being of the Philosophical Lecture
Dunne, Seamus (MLitt)
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor
Topic: Agents & Agency - The Relationship of Agents to their Motives, Reasons, Intentions and Actions Embodied in the Social World
Dwyer, Austin (PhD in Cognitive Science)
Supervisor: Fred Cummins
Topic: Cognitive Science in Philosophy
Favier, Killian
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor
Topic: Acceleration & Capitalism: temporality of the Anthropocene
Ferns, Samuel
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Topic: Freedom, Knowledge and Power: Reflexive Stage in the Grammars of Critical Social Theory
Filea, Evie
Supervisor: Lisa Foran
Topic: The phenomenological implications & influences of Edward Bond’s theory of theatre
Goksoy, Seckin
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Topic: Politics of Animality and Aesthetics
Guardascione, Alessandro
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Topic: Values and Selfhood in Psychopathology: A Phenomenological Account
Hariri, Muhannad
Supervisor: Jim O'Shea
Topic: Inferential Intuitions: Evil in Kant and Levinas: Combining Insights in a Novel Theory of Moral Imagination
Hartman, Holly
Supervisor: Tim Mooney
Topic: Nothing About You is Alone
Kaneko, Miho
Supervisor: Tatjana von Solodkoff
Topic: Can a Kind Essentialist Account of Instantiation Explain the Authorial Creation of Fictional Characters?
Keenan, Sabrina
Supervisor: Christopher Cowley
Topic: The Experience of Ageing
Kelly, Denise
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Topic: On Being (an Outsider): A Phenomenological Exploration of Social Phobia and Agoraphobia
Kwon, Haikyung
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor
Topic: Negative Dialectic as a Model for ‘Concrete Thinking’ – Adorno’s Formal Dialectic in Relation to Hegel
Lewis, Thomas
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Topic: The Eternal Return and the Philosophy of the Future
Masterton, Steven
Supervisor: Tim Crowley
Topic: Political Tenets: Virtue, Imperatives & Moral Exemplars
McPartland, Nilantha
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor
Topic: The Anxiety of Decline: A Genealogy of the Idea of a 'Western' Canon of Art
Mellema, Pepa
Supervisor: Elmar Unnsteinsson
Topic: The semantics and pragmatics of pejoratives
Mitchell, Jonathan
Supervisor: Tim Mooney
Topic: De-forming Bodies: Disability, Time and Becoming (Funded by the IRC)
Modarres, Benjamin
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Topic: The Phenmenological Particularity of Poetry
Murphy, Christopher
Supervisor: Jim O'Shea
Topic: Of Knowledge of Counterfactuals A Thesis on Its Attainability and Sources
Laura Jane Nanni BA, HDip, PGDE, MA
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Thesis Title: Between Self and Other: The Primacy of Intersubjectivity in Husserl and Honneth
Nuwe Agabah, Patrick
Supervisor: Maeve Cooke
Topic: Is there a need to liberate basic human rights from the limitations of culture?
Papazian, Meline (PhD in Cognitive Science)
Supervisor: Rowland Stout
Topic: TBA
Phipps, Aisling
Supervisor: Ruth Boeker
Topic: Parallels Between Personal Identity and Morality: The Effects of Identity Disturbance on Developing the Moral System in an Individual with Borderline Personality Disorder
Pret Theodore, Roxane
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Topic: Rethinking Political Organisation from a Feminist Standpoint Politicizing an Ethics of Care and Vulnerability
Pringle, John (MLitt)
Supervisor: Jim O'Shea
Topic: Empirical Method applied to a Problem in Ethics, such as Intuitionism or Mind/Body and Behaviourism
Rogers, John
Supervisor: Daniel Esmonde Deasy
Topic: Newman and Planting on the Epistemic Status of Religious Belief
Russell, Rachel
Supervisor: Dan Deasey
Topic: Timelessness: Metaphysics and Perception in a Timeless World
Saintemarie, Clémence
Supervisor: Maeve Cooke
Topic: The Aesthetic is Political’: A Critical Phenomenology of Social In/Visibility: Perception, Representation, the Imaginary
Smith, Robert
Supervisor: Markus Schlosser
Topic: The Nonconceptual Epistemological Limit: The Normative- Affective Disposition
Stéphan, Alix
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Topic: The spy as a philosophical figure
Sun, Fanqi
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Topic: Nietzsche's Life Philosophy
Vanderkwaak, Matthew
Supervisor: Dragos Calma
Topic: Polytheism and the Liber de Causis
Vitale, Giuseppe
Supervisor: Dragos Calma
Topic: Aliquid Amplius. Berthold of Moosburg's Neoplatonism as going beyond metaphysics
Webber, Grace (MLitt)
Supervisor: Kahterine O'Donnell
Topic:Sexistentialism: A Radical Theory of Sexual Politics
Wren, Jonathan
Supervisor: Danielle Petherbridge
Topic: The Political Implications of Freedom and Sharing: From Heidegger to Arendt and Nancy
Xu, Shengwei
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor
Topic: The Free Development of the Individual and All: Sartre and Adorno on Freedom
Recently completed students
Banfi, Luca
Bizra, Rana
Burns, Tim - Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University (USA)
Cosgrave, Bernard
Cherouvis, Stephanos - Research & Development, Ellinogermaniki Agogi (Greece)
Castagnoli, Andrea
Cummins, Hugh
Drumm, Eugene (MLitt)
Doyle, Siobhan - Occasional Lecturer, UCD School of Philosophy
Dolezal, Luna - Lecturer, Philosophy & Medical Humanities, University of Exeter
Dong, Le
Ennis, Paul - Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems, Quinn School of Business,
University College Dublin
Foley, Robert - Postdoctoral Fellow, Rotman Institute, University of Western Ontario
Foran, Lisa - Lecturer, UCD School of Philosophy
Gallagher, Michael (MLitt)
Giannankakis, Evangelos
Guedj-Cohen, Sacha
Hogan, Sinéad - Lecturer, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology
Hyland, Sheena - Lecturer in Educational Development, UCD Teaching & Learning, University College Dublin
James, Seferin
Kinsella, Maurice
Kretzschmar, Sven (MLitt) - Research Fellow in Health Sciences, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg (Germany)
Lennon, Damien
Lim, Kimberly (MLitt)
Marini, Simone - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin
McGuire, John - Marie Curie Global Research Fellow, UCD/McMaster University (Canada)
Millan, Daniel
Morrissey, Brian
Murphy, Christopher
Newman, Hugo
Nic Eodhasa, Emma
Nicholson, Anna
O'Connor, Andrew (MLitt)
Ó Madagáin, Caoimhín (MLitt)
Petropoulos, Georgios
Setola, Patrizia - Research Fellow in Animal Ethics, UCD School of Philosophy
Shanahan, Mary Kennedy - Lecturer in Religious Education, St Angela's College, Sligo
Sorem, Erik - Adjunct Professor, Azusa Pacific University (USA)
Uljée, Rozemund - University Lecturer, Leiden University
Vaughan, Connell - Lecturer in Aesthetics and Critical Theory in the Dublin School of Creative Arts (DIT)
Walsh, Jason - Journalist
Walsh, Joseph
Wong, Shuk Ling Lilian (MLitt)
Zhang, Junguo