Research Students
Katherine Allen
Katherine.M.Allen@uea.ac.uk
Subject of research project: Katherine's research focuses on the paradox posed by horror and those related genres that take as their aim/are defined by their production of negative emotional responses.
Odai Alzoubi
Subject of research project: Odai's main interest is ordinary language philosophy and Wittgenstein. His thesis focuses on the different interpretations of the later Wittgenstein.
Alun Davies
http://eastanglia.academia.edu/AlunDavies
Subject of research project: Alun's chief interests include philosophy of language, logic, and semantics. His PhD thesis is aimed at addressing several problems relating to the semantics-pragmatics distinction.
Ruth Makoff
r.makoff@uea.ac.uk
http://eastanglia.academia.edu/RuthMakoff
Subject of research project: Ruth is looking at ethical criteria to guide an international agreement on climate change mitigation. In particular, she is using a green economic approach to explore how we should interpret and prioritise criteria of environmental effectiveness, equity and efficiency.
Andrei Nasta
Subject of research project: Andrei is interested in linguistics, cognitive science, and logic. His ongoing research focuses on notions of economy in linguistics. In his dissertation, he tries to flesh out and justify some such notions of economy. For further information see his website.
Mihai Ometiță
M.Ometita@uea.ac.uk
http://eastanglia.academia.edu/MihaiOmetiță
Subject of research project: Mihai is researching the sources and the transformation of the phenomenological & grammatical method in the middle Wittgenstein's Nachlass. Main interests include phenomenology of intersubjectivity and of embodiment, the continental/analytic divide, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Kant, and Cassirer.
Silvia Panizza
Subject of research project: Silvia's interests are in the areas of philosophy of language, philosophy of literature and ethics. Her current research explores the limits of thought and language in Wittgenstein and Coetzee and the idea of philosophy and literature as forms of therapy for our 'transcendental illusions'.
Maria Serban
http://eastanglia.academia.edu/MariaSerban
Subject of research project: Maria's areas of specialisation are philosophy of psychology, with a particular focus on philosophy of emotion, and philosophy of science. She also works on other related issues in philosophy of mind and psychology including the distinction between conceptual and non-conceptual content, the structure and function of sensory modalities, and the haunting topic of mental representation. For further information see her webpage.
David Standen
D.Standen@uea.ac.uk
http://eastanglia.academia.edu/DavidStanden/About
Subject of research project: David is currently researching and writing about the relationship between ethics and hermeneutics, and the role that hermeneutics and ethics have to play in our conceptions of ethical understanding and our ethical being.
Simon Summers
Simon.Summers@uea.ac.uk
http://eastanglia.academia.edu/SimonSummers
Subject of research project: Simon's research interrogates the philosophical significance of contemporary research programs in syntactic and semantic theory, and the challenges such programmes pose to more traditionally philosophical conceptions of language and meaning. His thesis assesses a range of proposed solutions to the problem of the 'unity of the proposition'.
Ben Walker
Subject of research project: Ben's main interests are in the later Wittgenstein, the later Foucault, and the interface between such styles of philosophy and more naturalistic approaches. His thesis concerns a treatment of Wittgenstein's later methods as a form of resistance; his style as indicative of certain methodological concerns; and a critique of elements in Baker's therapeutic reading.
Jessica Woolley
Subject of research project: Jessica is writing her PhD thesis on the UN's problem of Humanitarian Intervention, focussing on the role of representation, ideologies and ‘routine' activities within the UN in terms of their influence on policy formation and implementation. Main interests include later Wittgenstein, meta-philosophy and applied ethics.