Current Research Students

Our research students join our research community through membership of one of our research clusters or the Centre for Humanities

Name	Start Year	Supervisor	Research Areas
Adshead, Jordan	2021	Professor Simon James & Dr Joe Saunders	Philosophy: specifically focusing on the study of apathy in the face of climate change by means of broadly phenomenological methods
Ballon Villanueva, Rodrigo	2022	Professor Anna Marmodoro	History of Medieval Philosophy and Analytic Metaphysics
Berwin, Bradley	2018	Professor Simon James	Virtue, Compassion and Animal Welfare
Betinsky, Jakub	2018	Dr Ben Smith	Ethics (moral realism), Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy (virtue ethics), Fact/value Dichotomy, Philosophy of Action, Elizabeth Anscombe, Bernard Williams, Ludwig Wittgenstein (philosophy of language/mind).
Bell-Clark, Elinor	2023	Professor Peter Vickers	Philosophy of Science
Coatsworth, Charles	2021	Dr Joe Saunders	Philosophy of Boredom: Value Theory , History of Philosophy: Phenomenology
Donovan, Amber	2020	Dr Clare MacCumhaill & Professor Simon James	Moral and Environmental Philosophy: Gaia
Gillen, Catherine	2021	Professor Peter Vickers	Modes of rational decision making in astrobiology under double uncertainty (uncertainty in both probabilities an rewards)
Goz, Zekiye	2018	Dr Sara L. Uckelman	The Possibility of Linguistic Creativity in Artificial Intelligence
Greenwood Dower, Caroline	2020	Dr Ben Smith	Psychology and Philosophy of Anxiety
Han, Shaoyu	2023	Dr Katherine Puddifoot	Philosophy of Language
He, Cui	2022	Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy	History and Philosophy of Science
Jiao, Liyuan	2023	Professor Alex Broadbent	Casual inference and philosophy of science
Kudtarkar, Gaurav	2021	Professor Philip Goff	Metaphysics of the Mind
Lauman-Lairson, Jessica	2018	Dr Sara L. Uckelman	Logic or Philosophy of Science
Lawson-Frost, Sasha	2021	Dr Clare MacCumhaill	Ethics and Moral Philosophy
Lee, Duncan	2021	Professor Philip Goff	Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics and Neuroscience
Lehnen, Odile	2022	Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy	Celestial Machines: Caroline Herschel Astronomical Notebooks and the material culture of predigital communication system s (History of Science)
Main, Ruby	2019	Professor Andy Hamilton	The other side of the limit: The changing Conception on ‘nonsense’ in Wittgenstein’s early and later work
Malik, Uzma	2021	Professor Nancy Cartwright	Philosophy of Science - How can misrepresentations of reality play an essential roll in explanation
Miah, Labeeba	2023	Dr Katherine Puddifoot	Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Psychiatry
Moses, Abigail	2022	Dr Katherine Puddifoot	Philosophy of Action and Disability
Navarro Cardenas, Francisco	2024	Professor Alex Broadbent	Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Medicine
Robson, Matthew	2022	Dr Joe Saunders	Masculinity Studies and the Philosophy of Love
Schmalisch, Lenka	2017	Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy	Visual Culture - History and philosophy of science and medicine
Symes, Jack	2022	Professor Philip Goff	Intersection between Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Religion
Takashima, Eleena	2021	Professor Stephen Mumford	Metaphysics (Free Will) Ethics (Moral Responsibility: Blame)
Xu, Yan	2022	Dr Sara L. Uckelman	Morality of speech act.
Zarate, Felipe	2023	Dr Sara L. Uckelman	Philosophy of Literature

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Postgraduate Study

Durham University's Department of Philosophy is not only a centre for world-class research but also provides a range of postgraduate programmes.

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Taught Courses

Our taught postgraduates are an integral part of our research community and many stay with us for PhD research.

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Graduate Diploma in Philosophy

The Graduate Diploma in Philosophy is a one-year conversion course (two years part-time), designed for those who already have a degree.

MA in Philosophy

The one-year MA (two years part-time) provides an ideal academic environment for those who would like to study philosophy at a higher level.

Research Degrees

The department provides its research students with comprehensive training, designed to support their research and professional development towards receiving a PhD.