Thesis, Dissertation, and Project Supervision

Please do get in touch if you are interested in writing an undergraduate, postgraduate, or personal project with me. I am available to help with any stage of the writing process, from idea-formation, to critical feedback, to general editing and proofreading.

The following are some examples of the work my current and recent students have done at Kent:

PhD thesis supervision:

• Alyx Robinson (2017-2022) - “Public Feeling and the Ethics of Transhumanism: The Flourishing Immortal Agent” (with Prof. Simon Kirchin)
  * Awarded with no corrections

MA dissertation supervision:

• Clare Hudson (2021) - “Pain and Criminal Punishment”

• James Rothwell (2020) - “A Critical Assessment of Duncan Pritchard’s Modal Account of Risk”

• Hayley Knight (2020) - “Inappropriate Moral Disgust in Transphobia”

BA (Hons.) dissertation supervision:

• Rhiannon Ellis (2021) - “The Philosophy of Desperation Under Capitalism”

• Ben Alias (2019) - “Resolving Aristotelian Ambivalence: What is the relation between emotion and reasoning in morally virtuous action?”
  *Awarded 2019 Philosophy Dissertation Prize

• Ben Ayers (2019) - “Black Mirror and Philosophy: On autonomy, love, and justice”

• Maddy Smith (2019) - “Do look back in anger: A response to Nussbaum’s Anger and Forgiveness”

• William Irving (2018) - “Are hate speech laws justified?”
  *Awarded 2018 Philosophy Dissertation Prize

• Jack Lemmon (2018) - “‘I’m a material girl, in a material world’: Towards a synthesis of Marxism and Intersectional Feminism”

At Stirling and Edinburgh, I’ve also supervised dissertation topics on “killer robots” and the ethics of lethal autonomous weapons, social media and “extended emotions”, Adverse Childhood Experiences and juvenile law, the political philosophy of disgust, the philosophy of punishment, as well as dissertations focussing on primary texts in the history of philosophy, in particular Plato’s Symposium and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.