3rd Year Finals Essay Supervision Topic List

Third year students are required to write finals essays under the guidance of a supervisor. Here are individual lists of topics that members of staff are prepared to supervise for finals essays. For more detail on finals essays, please refer to p.41 on the undergraduate handbook.

 

• Alexander Bird: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Epistemology

• Michael Bresalier: History and philosophy of modern medicine; sociology of medical knowledge; historical epistemology. Special interests: medical objectivity, evidence, regulation, and classification; disease categories.

• Jimmy Doyle: History of philosophy, especially ancient philosophy; Ethics and meta-ethics;
  Practical reason and the philosophy of action; Freedom of the will; Some topics in the philosophy of religion

• Anthony Everett: Language, Logic, Mind, Aesthetics

• Leon Horsten

- Philosophy of language (descriptions and modality, implicatures, propositional attitudes,…);
- Philosophy of mathematics (informal provability, structuralism, nominalistic reconstructions, platonism,…);
- Truth and the paradoxes (semantical theories of the self-referential paradoxes, paradox of the knower, deflationism, axiomatic theories of truth,…);
- Metaphysics (criteria of identity, indiscriminability,…);
- Philosophical logic (modal logic, epistemic logic,…);
- Epistemology (the Fitch paradox,…).

• Hannes Leitgeb: logic, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of science, cognitive science. (currently on research leave)

• Michael Madary

I am able to supervise Finals Essays on topics in the philosophy of mind, psychology, and neuroscience.  I am also able to supervise essays on phenomenology, especially Husserl.  If there is a related topic that interests you, please let me know and we can talk about it.

• Michelle Montague: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Language

• Seiriol Morgan: Ethics, History of Philosophy (especially Kant), continental philosophy, political philosophy, feminist philosophy.

• Samir Okasha: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology and Metaphysics.

• Giles Pearson

History
- Ancient Philosophy, esp. Aristotle (metaphysics, mind, and ethics); also Plato (most) and Presocratics
- Kant (aesthetics)

Contemporary
- Ethics (esp. practical reason, well-being, virtue ethics, moral psychology, Scanlon)
- Mind (esp. emotions, desire)
- Epistemology (JTB account + Gettier counter and responses.
- Aesthetics

• Andrew Pyle

My main area of expertise is the Metaphysics and Epistemology of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – roughly Descartes to Kant, taking in Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. I am always happy to supervise essays in this area. In other areas of the History of Philosophy I have less expertise, but could be persuaded to supervise essays. I also have some expertise in the History & Philosophy of Science, and might be persuaded to supervise essays in the Popper-Lakatos-Feyerabend-Kuhn-Laudan area.

• Ulrich Stegmann: Philosophy of Biology, Theories of Mental Content.

 

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