Current PhD Students
Claire Gallop
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Research Interests |
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| Thesis Title |
C.S. Pierce and the Normativity of Logic |
| Thesis Topic |
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| Supervisors |
Alan Musgrave and Charles Pigden |
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Hannah Clark-Younger
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Research Interests |
Vagueness |
| Thesis Title |
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| 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? |