Our lecturers have broad philosophical interests and specialise in modern European thought.
You can choose between standard academic dissertations or the more flexible context-based learning approach. Your personal interest will drive your context based learning. You will engage philosophically with an object or aspect of reality. You can read more about this approach on the Philosophical Studies web page.
PhD supervision is available in the following areas:
Continental philosophy and the history of European ideas
- Vico
- post-Kantian thought (including Hegel and German idealism)
- Kierkegaard
- Nietzsche
- Phenomenology
- Hermeneutics
- Psychoanalysis
- Bataille
- Frankfurt School
- the Situationists
- Poststructuralism (including Deleuze, Foucault and Derrida)
- Posthumanism
- Postmodernism (including Vattimo)
Aesthetics
- philosophy and the arts
- philosophy of music
- philosophy and contemporary art
- philosophy and literature (particularly Blanchot)
Ethics
- theopretical, applied and social ethics
Social and political philosophyPhilosophy and religion
You can find further information on staff research interests.
Please contact us about the suitability of your research ideas and projects before applying.
