Philosophy PhD

Philosophy is about critically thinking through the assumptions of the age. Our programmes are delivered by staff with strong research profiles in modern European philosophy and an interest in interdisciplinary research and collaboration. We have a thriving research culture, with postgraduates working in philosophy or with colleagues in other disciplines.

Our lecturers have broad philosophical interests and specialise in modern European thought.

Research and supervision areas

MPhil and 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

theoretical, applied and social ethics

Social and political philosophy

Philosophy and religion.