Current PhD Students

Claire Gallop

	Research Interests	Bioethics, Autonomy and Consent
	Thesis Topic	My thesis is an exploration of how the notion of respect for autonomy is used in health care and bioethics. The notion of respect for autonomy has fallen from favour amongst bioethicists in recent years, wrongly in my view. Through analysing the cases of non-medically indicated caesareans, cosmetic surgery, and live organ donation I construct an argument for how the notion of autonomy is best understood in medicine and how respect for autonomy can best be achieved. When I am not working on my research I can be found in the kitchen, coercing my children into doing homework, or on Twitter.
	Supervisors	Martin Wilkinson (Auck, Pols), Andrew Moore and Neil Pickering (Bioethics)
	Email:	chjgallop@gmail.com

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Emily Gill

	Research Interests	Metaphysics, Ontological Commitment, Quine, Philosophy of Science
	Thesis Title	Can there be an ontologically privileged language?
	Supervisors	Colin Cheyne and Josh Parsons
	Email:	gilem374@student.otago.ac.nz

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Juan Manuel Gomez

	Research Interests	Aesthetics, 18th century Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophical Societies, Scottish Enlightenment
	Thesis Title	Experimental philosophy and eighteenth-century British aesthetics.(Part of the Marsden Project Experimental philosophy and the origins of Empiricism)
	Supervisors	Peter Anstey and Charles Pigden
	Email:	gomju504@student.otago.ac.nz

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Sarah Grant

	Research Interests	Metaphysics: philosophy of time, ontology, modality, vagueness, realism and anti-realism, Metaethics, Philosophy of Physics.
	Thesis Title	Is there an adequate topological theory of space-time that allows for the contingency of an event’s temporal location, that doesn’t commit one to the possibility of temporally shifted worlds?
	Supervisors	Heather Dyke and Josh Parsons
	Email:	phl2skg@hotmail.co.uk

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Kirsten Walsh

	Research Interests	Philosophy of Science, Early Modern Natural Philosophy, History of Science, Epistemology.
	Thesis Title	Experiment, Measurement and Mathematics in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
	Supervisors	Peter Anstey and Alan Musgrave
	Email:	walki303@student.otago.ac.nz

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Current MA Students

Andrew Donnelly

	Research Interests	Philosophy of law, bioethics, metaethics and moral psychology
	Thesis Topic	I am defending moral motivation externalism - the notion that moral judgements do not always motivate the agent to act in accordance with those judgements. I argue against those that maintain moral judgements motivate as a matter of 'conceptual' necessity and those who claim that, as a purely synthetic matter, moral judgements happen to always motivate.
	Supervisors	Charles Pigden and Andrew Moore
	Email:	donan444@student.otago.ac.nz

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Bessie Olsen

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Hannah Clark-Younger

	Research Interests	Vagueness
	Thesis Title
	Supervisors	Josh Parsons and Colin Cheyne
	Email:	claha565@student.otago.ac.nz

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Here's a list of recent postgraduate theses.

PhD

Mary Butler: Ethical Dimensions of the Long-term Effects of Head Injury

Greg Dawes: Could Religious "Explanations" Explain?

Peter Ogle: A Defence of Non-Introspective Simulationism

Sanjay Thakur: Ethics of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis

MA

Anton Allen: Natural History and "Natural Goodness"

Gerard Aynsley: Beauty is the Symbol of Morality

Charles Boulton: A Test of Time: Presentism and the Special Theory of Relativity

Euan Cochrane: Idealisation and Scientific Realism

Ducan Eddy: Locke, Welfare and Neo-Liberalism: A Reassessment

Emily Gill: A Response-Dependant Theory of Explanation

Nichola Harper: The Neutrality and Value of Liberal Education

Emily Jennings: Severed Limbs and What's Leftover

Taryn Knox: Defending Boorse's Biostatical Theory of Disease: Value-Freedon, Plausibility and Clinical Significance

Holly Lawford-Smith: The Expired Utility of Tolerance

Ian Lawson: Time Travel and Tense. Or: Why visiting the past is like having a foot massage.

Douglas McConnell: Is there a Tenable Concept of Unconsciousness?

Raamy Majeed: The Culprits of Musical Expressiveness

Dan Sears: The Morality of Suicide

Steven Sue: Does Macroeconomics Need Microfoundations?

Simon Walker: A Wittgensteinian View of a Kantian Moral Theory

Helen Au Yeung: How Should Sex and Love be Related?