Postgraduate Research

We are committed to a new vision for philosophy beyond the institutionalised divide between analytic and ‘European/continental’ approaches. This means that we welcome people who wish to research in both traditions, as well as those who wish to do research which seeks to bridge the divide between them.

We are also very keen to encourage interdisciplinary research, in which philosophy is used to illuminate other subjects, and vice versa. We are particularly interested in this respect in research relating philosophy to the arts, and to politics and history.

At present we have PhD students working on topics such as:

• Brandom’s inferentialism and ethnomethodology
• Music’s relationship to other human practices
• Reification, music and modern philosophy
• Language in German philosophy from Herder and Hamann to Gadamer and beyond
• The philosophical significance of the fragment
• Adorno and the truth of the subject
• Philosophy and jazz
• Epictetus and Anger
• Aspects of Plato on Memory
• The Event in Marxist philosophy
• Post-existentialism: Nietzsche, Sartre, Foucault
• Responsibility's limit?: Understanding and attributing responsibilities in a globalized world

In the past PhDs have been written, for example, on Wittgenstein and music; philosophy and music in Neoplatonism; forgetting in modern philosophy; philosophy, Greek tragedy, and opera; Epicurus on the self; the relationship between physics and ethics in Stoicism and Epicureanism; remembrance and the Holocaust; Adorno and the limits of philosophy; ethics and aesthetics in Weimar opera; knowledge and reality in Damascius; justice, democracy and meaningful work; and God and textuality in Derrida’s later work.

We offer a broad range of expertise in many areas of philosophy and are always happy to discuss possible areas of research. At a time when analytical philosophers have realised how important Hegel, Heidegger, and others can be to their concerns, and European philosophers are seeking to connect their work to what is happening in the analytical tradition, we offer an exciting opening to the future of philosophy that seeks to be inclusive, rather than exclusive.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to make contact with members of the academic staff| whose research interests are appropriate to their proposed areas of study.