Philosophy

Philosophy Postgraduates and Their Topics

Current

  • Mike Baldwin (Username: michael.baldwin -- add @pta.wa.gov.au to form the email address)
    Mike's thesis topic is, 'What's so bad about valuing material possessions?'

  • Jacqui Boaks (Username: boaks -- add @iinet.net.au to form the email address)
    Jacqui's thesis topic is, 'Is leadership a virtue?'

  • Ryan Cox (Username: coxr03 -- add @student.uwa.edu.au to form the email address)
    Ryan's thesis is on practical knowledge and the philosophy of action.

  • Craig Edwards (Username: edwarc09 -- add @student.uwa.edu.au to form the email address)
    Craig's thesis concerns the ethical justifications for and limitations on involuntary psychiatric treatment and detention of the mentally ill.

  • Derek Hosken (Username: Derekhosken -- add @yahoo.com.au to form the email address)
    Derek's topic is the evaluation of some philosophical theories of scientific change, using the development and application of psychopharmacological theory as an illustrative case study.

  • Andy Lamey (Username: lameya01 -- add @student.uwa.edu.au to form the email address)
    Andy's thesis concerns the moral status of animals.

  • Cliff Stagoll (Username: Cliff.Stagoll -- add @bhpbilliton.com to form the email address)
    Cliff is working on the ethics of Hume and Kant.

  • David Trembath (Username: TrembathDF -- add @westnet.com.au to form the email address)
    David is investigating the role that technology might play in resolving issues within the philosophy of science.

Completions from 1999

  • Ian Baker [PhD 2008: What money can't buy: the status of financial evaluation]

  • Phillip Claringbold [MA 1999: Autonomy and human flourishing: guides to medical decision making]

  • Rebecca Collins [PhD 2002: Shadows of language / diseases of discourse: a philosophical analysis of characterisations of myth in theoretical discourse]

  • Nic Damnjanovic [MA 2002: McDowell and Heidegger: content and world]

  • Laura D'Olimpio [PhD 2009: The moral possibilities of mass art]

  • Guy Douglas [PhD 1999: Consciousness and mental states]

  • Ealhswith Fraser [PhD 2004: Agent-causation and event-causation in action]

  • Mauro Grün [PhD 2003: Gadamer and the otherness of nature: philosophical foundations for environmental education]

  • Colin Hutchinson [PhD 1999: Thomas Hobbes on obligation]

  • Paul Kabay [MA 2003: Two theories of infinite sin: an analysis of the concept of infinite sin in the retributive-punishment theory of hell]

  • Nin (Georgiana) Kirkham [PhD 2008: Creating art or vexing nature? – ethics and the manipulation of nature]

  • Lo Yeuk-Sze (Norva) [PhD with distinction, 2001: Making and finding values in the environment: a critical study of environmental ethics]

  • Ella Peek [PhD 2003: Morality and the literary arts]

  • Phillip Pickering [MA 2007: Personal identity and concern for future selves]

  • Stewart Saunders [MA with distinction, 1999: An examination of three major objections to Fodor's language of thought hypothesis]

Please let Stewart Candlish (click on the name to find an email address) know of any necessary changes.