Research students

A number of the student project abstracts are available to download.

Current research students

	Hammam Aldouri
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	The Experience of Philosophy: Hegel, Derrida and the Problem of Aufhebung
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne
Second supervisor:	Catherine Malabou

	Ali Alizadeh
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	The Problem of Time in Hegel's Philosophy: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Social
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Christian Kerslake

	Max Blechman
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Rousseau: The Politics of Common Sense
Supervisors:	Peter Hallward and Eric Alliez

	Susana Caló
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Re-thinking the biographical: Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze
Supervisors:	Eric Alliez and Peter Hallward

	Iain Campbell
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Rhythm, Individuation, and Creativity in the Musical Metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze
Supervisors:	Eric Alliez and Peter Hallward

	Bojana Cvejic
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Performance after Deleuze: Creating 'Performative Concepts' in Contemporary Dance in Europe
Supervisors:	Peter Hallward and Eric Alliez

	Matthew Dennis
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Philosophical Askesis: Foucault and the Self-Constituting Political Subject
Supervisor:	Peter Hallward
Second supervisor:	Catherine Malabou

	Barbra Egervary
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Photography and Plasticity: Another Possibility
Supervisor:	Howard Caygill
Second supervisor:	Catherine Malabou

	Bobby George
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Arakawa and Gins: Philosophers of Life
Supervisors:	Howard Caygill

	Vijak Haddadi Moghaddam
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Schelling's Existential Cosmology
Supervisor:	Eric Alliez

	Yaiza Hernández Velázquez
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Romantic Irony and Criticism in Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practices
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Stewart Martin

	Ian Jakobi
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Materialism without Substance: Reading Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences
Supervisors:	Catherine Malabou and Peter Osborne

	Margarita Karkagianni
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	The Concept of the Pathological in Bergson's Philosophy of Life
Supervisors:	Howard Caygill and Peter Hallward

	Cas McMenamin
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Which materialism? Rethinking the genealogy of materialism and its political stakes in modern European philosophy
Supervisor:	Stella Sandford
Second supervisor:	Peter Osborne

	Lucie Mercier
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Cultural translation, derivation, critique
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne
Second supervisor:	Stella Sandford

	Rosa Nogues
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Between Ethics and Politics: Feminism in Contemporary Art
Supervisor:	Stella Sandford

	Stefano Pippa
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Between Genesis and Structure: The Political Ontology of Louis Althusser
Supervisors:	Peter Hallward and Peter Osborne

	Will Potter
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Subject and form in the philosophy of Alain Badiou
Supervisors:	Peter Hallward

	Juan Rinaldi
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Art and Geopolitics: The Politics of Autonomy in Contemporary Argentine Art
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne
Second supervisor:	Eric Alliez

	George Tomlinson
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Value, Mortality and Historical Time
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne

	Georgios Tsagdis
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Nihil ex Nihilo: Heidegger and the Archeology of Nothing
Supervisors:	Howard Caygill

	Kamini Vellodi
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Deleuze's Diagram and the Practice of Painting: Between Bacon and the Baroque
Supervisors:	Eric Alliez and Peter Osborne

	Josefine Wikström
Year completed:	In progress
Project:	Performance After Post-Fordism: Towards a Materialist Ontology of Production in Performance
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Howard Caygill

Recent PhDs

	Tom Eyers
Year completed:	2011
Project:	Jacques Lacan and the concept of the 'Real'
Supervisors:	Peter Hallward
External examiners:	Philippe van Haute (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

	Katie Lloyd Thomas
Year completed:	2010
Project:	>Matter and Materials in the Architectural Specification
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Rob Stone
External examiners:	Andrew Barry (University of Oxford) and Mark Dorian (University of Edinburgh)

	Matthew Charles
Year completed:	2010
Project:	Goethe's Kantian Epistemology in Walter Benjamin's Speculative Critical Theory
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne and Stewart Martin
External examiner:	Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)

	Dustin McWherter
Year completed:	2010
Project:	Ontology and Cognitive Experience in Kant and Bhaskar
Supervisors:	Peter Hallward and Stella Sandford
External examiners:	Christopher Norris (Cardiff University)

	Peter Kapos
Year completed:	2010
Project:	Freedom Moves in Leaps: The Problem of Choice in Kant and Fichte
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Christian Kerslake
External examiner:	Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick)

	Luke Skrebowski
Year completed:	2009
Project:	Systems Aesthetics: Conceptual Art and Critical Theory
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Jon Bird
External examiner:	Michael Newman (Chicago Art Institute & Goldsmiths)

	Wesley Phillips
Year completed:	2009
Project:	Anticipation in Music and Language: Adorno and Heidegger
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Eric Alliez
External examiner:	Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)

	Alan McPherson
Year completed:	2009
Project:	Memory and Expectation in Aesthetics: A Study of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Stewart Martin
External examiner:	Gary Peters (York St John University)

	Nuno Rodrigues
Year completed:	2009
Project:	The Avant-Garde as Production of Difference
Supervisor:	Peter Osborsne and Eric Alliez
External examiner:	John Mullarkey (University of Dundee)

	Simon Skempton
Year completed:	2008
Project:	Alienation After Derrida
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Stella Sandford
External examiner:	Simon Glendinning (LSE)

	Nina Power
Year completed:	2006
Project:	From Theoretical Antihumanism to Practical Humanism: The Political Subject in Sartre, Althusser, and Badiou
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Eric Alliez
External examiner:	Etienne Balibar (Paris X-Nanterre)

	Andrew McGettigan
Year completed:	2006
Project:	Disputes in the 'Metaphysics' of Ethico-Political Transformation: A Reassessment of the Speculative Philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas
Supervisors:	Peter Osborne and Stella Sandford
External examiners:	Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths) and Marian Hobson (Queen Mary)

	Alastair Morgan
Year completed:	2005
Project:	"Life Does Not Live": Experience and Life in the Philosophies of Theodor W. Adorno and Giorgio Agamben
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne
External examiner:	Simon Jarvis (Cambridge)

	Julie Kuhlken
Year completed:	2004
Project:	Why Would a Philosopher Take an Artist Seriously?
Supervisor:	Alex Düttmann
External examiner:	Espen Hammer (Essex) and Christoph Menke (Potsdam)

	Adam Beck
Year completed:	2002
Project:	Heidegger and Science: Nature, Objectivity and the Present-at-Hand
Supervisor:	Jonathan Rée
External examiner:	Denis McManus (Southampton)

	Christian Kerslake
Year completed:	2001
Project:	The Problem of Immanence in Kant and Deleuze
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne
External examiner:	Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)

	Stewart Martin
Year completed:	2001
Project:	Adorno and the Problem of Philosophy
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne
External examiner:	Simon Jarvis (Cambridge) and Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths)

	Jane Chamberlain
Year completed:	1999
Project:	Reading Time: On the Idea of a Philosophical Poetics
Supervisor:	Jonathan Rée
External examiner:	David Wood (Vanderbilt)

	Edward Garrett
Year completed:	1998
Project:	A Critical Examination of Private Property in Land, with Particular Application to Conflicts Arising from Section 5 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act
Supervisor:	Philip Cole

	Bob Cannon
Year completed:	1998
Project:	Rethinking the Normative Content of Critical Theory: Marx, Habermas and Beyond
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne

	Andrew Rossiter
Year completed:	1997
Project:	Textuality and Violence: the Difference in Heidegger and Derrida
Supervisor:	Jonathan Rée
External examiner:	Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths)

	Mark Neocleous
Year completed:	1995
Project:	State, Power, Administration: Marxist and Foucauldian Perspectives on State Development in Britain 1832-1918
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne
External examiner:	Peter Dews (Essex)

MPhil awards

	Thomas Fitzmaurice
Year completed:	2002
Project:	Does Nietzsche Have a Coherent View of Truth?
Supervisor:	Alexander Düttmann
External examiner:	Beatrice Han (Essex)

BPhil awards:

	Andrew Wilson
Year completed:	1995
Project:	New Gods Ascending: Ethics and Action in Lukacs, 1916-1928
Supervisor:	Peter Osborne