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ALEX MILLER: TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

COURSES TAUGHT SUPERVISION INTERESTS
  • Philosophy of language and mind
  • Metaphysics (especially realism and antirealism)
  • Metaethics
  • Wittgenstein

CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS

  • Natalie Sherman (BA hons): Frege on Sense
  • Rosa-Berry Vaughn (MA): Metaethical Subjectivism

COMPLETED RESEARCH STUDENTS

  • Saba Ghoroori (Alan Musgrave Scholar 2023; BA hons): Hume on Causal Anti-Realism
  • Weipeng Sun: Rule-Following and Meaning (BA Hons)
  • Seth Whittington: Moral Psychology (MA)
  • Rachel Cao: Normativity and Meaning (MA, Alan Musgrave Scholar 2021)
  • Seth Whittington: Companions in Guilt Arguments (BA Hons)
  • Nathan Sampson: Macintyre on Virtue, Narrative and Normative Accord (BA Hons)
  • Finn Butler: Realism and Antirealism (MA)
  • Zachary Swindlehurst: Normativity and content (MA)
  • Christoph Lernpass: Evolutionary Debunking Arguments in Metaethics (MA, Alan Musgrave Scholar 2017-18)
  • Finn Butler: Rule-Following and Semantic Irrealism (BA Hons)
  • Zachary Swindlehurst: Rule-Following and First-Person Knowledge of Meaning (BA Hons)
  • John Keyzer: Meaning and Normativity (PhD)
  • Ali Hossein Khani: Davidson and Wittgenstein on Meaning (PhD)
  • Caitlin Fitchett: Moral Constructivism (MA, Co-supervisor)
  • Daniel Wee: Rule-Following, Individualism and Communitarianism (PhD)
  • Paul Broadbent: McDowell’s Realism (PhD)
  • Walker MacMurdo: Putnam and Wright on Realism (BA Hons)
  • Reza Mosmer: The Tractatus Paradox (PhD)
  • Seyed Ali Kalantari: Normativity and Content (PhD 2010-12)
  • Kirk Surgener: Korsgaard’s Metaethics (PhD)
  • Ali Saboohi: Theory of Meaning and Speakers’ Knowledge (PhD)
  • Andrew Field: Explanation in Metaethics (MPhil)
  • Callum Hood: Morality and Judgement-Dependence (MPhil)
  • Paul Broadbent: Davidson on Conceptual Schemes (MPhil)
  • Florian Demont: Non-Reductionism about Meaning (MPhil)
  • Kirk Surgener: Moral Particularism (MPhil)
  • Tama Coutts: Possible Worlds (BA Hons)
  • Julian Bennett: Moral Rationalism (MA)