Postgraduate research - Philosophy In 'Postgraduate research' PhD researchPhD research focus Back to 'Philosophy research' The Department of Philosophy has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below: Konner Childers Doctoral researcher PhD title: Supervisor: Dr Alastair Wilson and Dr Katie Robertson PhD Philosophy Patrick Allen Doctoral researcher PhD title: The philosophy of anxiety and its disorders: a reconceptualization Supervisor: Lisa Bortolotti PhD Philosophy Rafael Ambríz González Doctoral researcher PhD title: Philosophy of Psychiatry; Philosophy of Medicine Supervisors: Dr Lisa Bortolotti, Dr Ema Sullivan-Bissett, and Dr Henry Taylor PhD Philosophy Claire Beard Doctoral researcher Distance Learning PhD title: Belief and Social MediaSupervisors: Dr Ema Sullivan-Bissett and Dr Merten ReglitzPhD Philosophy Bruce P Blackshaw Doctoral researcher PhD title: A critique of psychological accounts of personhood. Supervisors: Jeremy Williams and Heather Widdows PhD Philosophy Mike Brownnutt Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Role of Quasi-Objects in Understanding Science, Religion, and Their Engagement Supervisors: Dr Stephen Jones, Professor Fern Elsdon-Baker, Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy Michael DeVito Doctoral researcher PhD title: Paradoxes & Contradictions: Alternative Approaches to the Foreknowledge and Freedom problem Supervisors: Dr Jussi Suikkanen and Dr Nikk EffinghamPhD Philosophy Randal Everist Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Metaphysics of God as Embodied and Divine Action Supervisor: Yujin NagasawaPhD Philosophy Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade Doctoral researcher PhD title: Animal rights advocacy, eco-terrorism, and civil disobedience. Supervisors: Heather Widdows and Jeremy Williams Harry Golborn Doctoral researcher PhD title: What we should not do when we disagree: Epistemology of Disagreement, The Bad News Supervisors: Professor Scott Sturgeon, Dr Salvatore Florio and Professor Alistair WilsonPhD Philosophy Michael Grech Doctoral researcher PhD title: Philosophy of time, McTaggart and later-Wittgenstein Supervisor: Nikk Effingham Kathleen Murphy-Hollies Doctoral researcher PhD title: Is Confabulation a Concern for the Virtuous Agent? Supervisors: Dr Lisa Bortolotti, Dr Iain Law, and Professor Quassim Cassam PhD Philosophy Lucy Prior Doctoral researcher PhD title: Explaining the Youth Anxiety Epidemic: Towards a New Social Theory of Anxiety Supervisor: Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor Matthew Broome and Dr Ruth Page PhD Philosophy Seyed Razavi-Nematollahi Doctoral researcher PhD title: Intentionality and Artificial Minds Supervisors: Professor Scott Sturgeon and Dr Maja SpenerPhD Philosophy Andre Rusavuk Doctoral researcher PhD title: Divine Luck: A New Puzzle for Theists Supervisors: Professor Yujin Nagasawa, Professor Alastair Wilson PhD Philosophy Reinier Schuur Doctoral researcher PhD title: The problem of normativity and concept validity in psychiatric research Supervisors: Lisa Bortolotti Will Sharp Doctoral researcher PhD title: How to think about perceptual phenomenal character Supervisors: Professor Scott Sturgeon, Dr Maja Spener and Dr Henry TaylorPhD Philosophy Jordan Steffaniak Doctoral researcher PhD title: Conciliar Christology and the Philosophy of Mind: A New Defense of Anthropological Materialism Supervisors: Dr Nikk Effingham and Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy John Stickles Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time on a Perdurance ModelSupervisor: Nikk EffinghamPhD Philosophy Benjamin Whittington Doctoral researcher PhD title: Physicalism and Free Agency Supervisors: Professor Yujin Nagasawa and Dr Jussi SuikkanenPhD Philosophy
Konner Childers Doctoral researcher PhD title: Supervisor: Dr Alastair Wilson and Dr Katie Robertson PhD Philosophy
Patrick Allen Doctoral researcher PhD title: The philosophy of anxiety and its disorders: a reconceptualization Supervisor: Lisa Bortolotti PhD Philosophy
Rafael Ambríz González Doctoral researcher PhD title: Philosophy of Psychiatry; Philosophy of Medicine Supervisors: Dr Lisa Bortolotti, Dr Ema Sullivan-Bissett, and Dr Henry Taylor PhD Philosophy
Claire Beard Doctoral researcher Distance Learning PhD title: Belief and Social MediaSupervisors: Dr Ema Sullivan-Bissett and Dr Merten ReglitzPhD Philosophy
Bruce P Blackshaw Doctoral researcher PhD title: A critique of psychological accounts of personhood. Supervisors: Jeremy Williams and Heather Widdows PhD Philosophy
Mike Brownnutt Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Role of Quasi-Objects in Understanding Science, Religion, and Their Engagement Supervisors: Dr Stephen Jones, Professor Fern Elsdon-Baker, Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy
Michael DeVito Doctoral researcher PhD title: Paradoxes & Contradictions: Alternative Approaches to the Foreknowledge and Freedom problem Supervisors: Dr Jussi Suikkanen and Dr Nikk EffinghamPhD Philosophy
Randal Everist Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Metaphysics of God as Embodied and Divine Action Supervisor: Yujin NagasawaPhD Philosophy
Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade Doctoral researcher PhD title: Animal rights advocacy, eco-terrorism, and civil disobedience. Supervisors: Heather Widdows and Jeremy Williams
Harry Golborn Doctoral researcher PhD title: What we should not do when we disagree: Epistemology of Disagreement, The Bad News Supervisors: Professor Scott Sturgeon, Dr Salvatore Florio and Professor Alistair WilsonPhD Philosophy
Michael Grech Doctoral researcher PhD title: Philosophy of time, McTaggart and later-Wittgenstein Supervisor: Nikk Effingham
Kathleen Murphy-Hollies Doctoral researcher PhD title: Is Confabulation a Concern for the Virtuous Agent? Supervisors: Dr Lisa Bortolotti, Dr Iain Law, and Professor Quassim Cassam PhD Philosophy
Lucy Prior Doctoral researcher PhD title: Explaining the Youth Anxiety Epidemic: Towards a New Social Theory of Anxiety Supervisor: Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor Matthew Broome and Dr Ruth Page PhD Philosophy
Seyed Razavi-Nematollahi Doctoral researcher PhD title: Intentionality and Artificial Minds Supervisors: Professor Scott Sturgeon and Dr Maja SpenerPhD Philosophy
Andre Rusavuk Doctoral researcher PhD title: Divine Luck: A New Puzzle for Theists Supervisors: Professor Yujin Nagasawa, Professor Alastair Wilson PhD Philosophy
Reinier Schuur Doctoral researcher PhD title: The problem of normativity and concept validity in psychiatric research Supervisors: Lisa Bortolotti
Will Sharp Doctoral researcher PhD title: How to think about perceptual phenomenal character Supervisors: Professor Scott Sturgeon, Dr Maja Spener and Dr Henry TaylorPhD Philosophy
Jordan Steffaniak Doctoral researcher PhD title: Conciliar Christology and the Philosophy of Mind: A New Defense of Anthropological Materialism Supervisors: Dr Nikk Effingham and Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy
John Stickles Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time on a Perdurance ModelSupervisor: Nikk EffinghamPhD Philosophy
Benjamin Whittington Doctoral researcher PhD title: Physicalism and Free Agency Supervisors: Professor Yujin Nagasawa and Dr Jussi SuikkanenPhD Philosophy