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Postgraduate Research at the Philosophy Department

NEW! Structured PhD in Philosophy of Art and Culture (Inter-Institutional)

The postgraduate student community at the Philosophy Department is sizeable and vibrant. For an overview of research that has been published or presented by postgraduate students of the department, click here.

Information on research programmes, application procedures and funding can be found here. See also IRCHSS funding schemes.

For information on activities in the department that are specifically directed at supporting postgraduate research students click here. For reasons why you should undertake a research degree in Philosophy at NUIG click here.

Current Research Students and their Research Topics

Name Degree Topic

David Beirne	PhD	Between Immanence and Transcendence: On the Religious Significance of the Hegelian Middle
Martin Brady	M.Litt	The Body in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty
Eoin Duggan	M.Litt	Subjectivity in Searle
Gerald Long	M.Litt	Nietzsche and Metaphysics
Karis Mills	M.Litt	The Sublime in Edmund Burke
Petra Benske	PhD	’ Heldentod’: Philosophical Perspectives on Death and Suicide in Postmodern Culture
Jennifer Buckley	PhD	Academic Ethics and Civil Responsibility: a Pragmatist Perspective
Audrey Cahill	PhD	Child Deprivation in Contemporary Ireland - A Philosophical Perspective
Frank Canavan	PhD	A Role for Informal Reasoning in Ethics
Aengus Daly	PhD	Fundamental Ontology and Ethics: Heidegger and Levinas
Pierre Yves Fioraso	PhD	Pathology and Death in the Phenomenon of Life (Towards an epistemology of complexity)
Catherine Flynn	PhD	Ritual and Authenticity: A Philosophical Exploration of the Possibility of Genuine Religious Practice
Pearce Johnson	PhD	The Body in Merleau-Ponty and Henry
Desmond Joyce	M.Litt	Philosophy as Therapy
Roisin Lally Bradley	PhD	Technology and Ontology in Heidegger
Lucy McAndrew	PhD	Extravagant Humanity: Respect for Nature as a Key Concept in the Context of an Environmental Crisis
Sorcha Ni Chonnachtaigh	PhD	Ethical Considerations in Embryonic Stem Cell Research, in the context of Ireland
Veronica O’Neill	PhD	Benjamin on Translation
Desislava Parashkevova	PhD	The Structure and Scope of Deleuze's Concept of the Univocity of Being
Ed O’Toole	PhD	Psychopathy and the dark side of humanity
Mark Ryan	PhD	Ethics and Environmental Sustainability: Natural Capital, Intergenerational Equity, and Public Policy
Max Schaefer	PhD	Forgetting and The Ethics of Life
Davy Walsh	PhD	Experience and Adventure

Overview of recent postgraduate research

Recent graduates of the department

Selection of recent dissertation topics in the taught MA programme

Department of Philosophy, 19 Distillery Road
National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Email: Philosophy Department
This page was last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012