Philosophy
Current Students: Postgraduates
Postgraduate Research Students
Research: Virtue Epistemology and the Analysis of Knowledge.
Research: My principal research interest lies in applying the resources of normative moral philosophy to the practical realm of business.
Ryan Dawes
Research:
Research: My thesis focusses on the two issues of scepticism and the value of knowledge.
Research: My research falls within the domain of moral and political philosophy. I mainly work on different theories of rights and a defence of a right-based moral theory. I am also interested in topics related to human rights, in particular the justification, different understandings and the scope of human rights.
Research: My research focuses on theories of justice, especially with regard to global justice.
Research: Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights
Research: My research centres on the history of early analytic philosophy, and, especially, on Wittgenstein’s philosophy in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in its relations to Frege’s and Russell’s thought.
Research: The Virtue of the Civil Disobedient.
Research: My focus at present is on the epistemology of testimony as seen in the light of Wittgenstein’s remarks on hinge propositions.
Martha Trevino-Tarango (TBA)
Research: Epistemic theory of democracy, constitutionalism and legitimacy of rights
Research: My research focuses on integrating Analytic perspectives on Personal Identity, with the bodily basis of Self found in Embodied Cognition,and contributions from Continental Phenomenologists like Merleau-Ponty.
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