DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

Prospective students

Current students

About the department

Other links

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.
  • Justin Alam:  Value Theory, Kant
  • Alexander Bird: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Epistemology
  • Chris Bertram:  Political Philosophy
  • Anthony Everett: Language, Logic, Mind, Aesthetics
  • Jonathan Grose:  Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, epistemology
  • 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,…).  
  • James Ladyman:  Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics
  • Alex Malpass:  Philosophical logic, metaphysics, language, continental philosophy
  • Michelle Montague: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Language (on leave 2012/13)
  • 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  
  • Richard Pettigrew: Mathematical logic, philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, formal epistemology
  • Katherine Puddifoot:  Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology intuitions
  • 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.
  • Tom Richardson: Ethics, aesthetics
  • Finn Spicer: Philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, language, epistemology
  • Giulia Terzian: Philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic, mathematical logic, metaphysics
  • Dagmar Wilhelm: Value theory, intuitions