Past PhD students

Finlay Malcolm

Finlay completed his PhD in September 2017. His research concerned the nature of faith, and the relations between faith, belief, unbelief and testimony. He began working as a Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire in October 2017, where he continues to work on the issues developed in his thesis, with a particular focus on their applicability to religion, culture and identity.

Robert Knowles

Robert Knowles finished his PhD in 2015. He is now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Leeds, leading the British Academy funded project ‘Mathematics: The Unlikely Engine of Scientific Discovery’.

Moritz Mueller

Moritz completed his PhD in 2014, He is a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the Philosophy department at Tübingen, working on a DFG grant application for the project ''Self, Person, Agent: Towards a Unified Picture of Ourselves’

Ben Matheson

Ben completed his PhD in 2014, He is a postdoc on the ‘Moral Responsibility Research Initiative’ project at the University of Gothenburg, funded by the Swedish Research Council. He is planning to write a book developing and defending the account of the conditions on moral responsibility (the 'structural-narrative view') that he sketched in his PhD thesis.

Hichem Naar

Hichem completed his PhD in 2013. He is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montreal, currently working on various projects in philosophy of mind and metaethics.

Michael Clark

Michael completed his PhD in 2012. He is currently a research associate on the SNF-funded project Grounding: Metaphysics, Science and Logic at the University of Hamburg.

Paul Knights

Paul completed his PhD in 2012. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Manchester researching and developing criticisms of features of economic environmental valuation.

Chloe Fitzgerald

Chloe completed her PhD in 2011. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva on the Swiss National Science Foundation project, 'Understanding implicit bias in clinical care'.

Paula Satne

Paula completed her PhD in 2009. She is now a lecturer at the University of Manchester. Her current research focuses on human evil and the ethics of forgiveness.

Vasco Castela

Vasco completed his PhD in 2009. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and teaches a range of courses at the BC Institute of Technology.

Michael Rush

Michael completed his PhD in September 2009. He is currently a teaching fellow in philosophy at the University of Birmingham.

Alfredo Gaete

Alfredo completed his PhD in 2009. He is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies at the Campus Villarrica of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.