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PhD Graduates 2024
NAME SUPERVISORS TITLE PLACEMENT(S)
Elliot Woodhouse

Megan Blomfield

Christopher Bennet

Messing with Nature? Environmental Ethics and the Challenge of Geoengineering?

Research Associate, The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

PhD Graduates 2023
NAME SUPERVISORS TITLE PLACEMENT(S)
Henry Roe Jules Holroyd, Ryan Byerly Arrogance as an epistemic vice, individual and collective

Research Associate, School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff СŷÊÓƵ

Yuhan Fu Ryan Byerly Do we have a unified moral faculty? No. Postdoc researcher at Sun Yat-sen СŷÊÓƵ in China
PhD Graduates 2021
NAME SUPERVISORS TITLE PLACEMENT(S)
Maria Pietrini Sanchez

Jules Holroyd

Chris Bennett

An autonomy based framework for surrogacy contracts

First employed at Chiapas state university (UNACH), Faculty of Medicine of the Department of Human Rights.

Now employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Philosophical Research (UNAM), Mexico.

Jules Holroyd

Jimmy Lenman

Reasons-responsive accounts of moral responsibility

First employed in a postdoctoral position at the СŷÊÓƵ of Shanghai. 

Now in a lectureship in Huangzhong СŷÊÓƵ of Science and Technology, China.

Rosa Vince

Jules Holroyd

Chris Bennett

Pornography and objectification

Leverhulme ECF postdoc at  the СŷÊÓƵ  of Leeds

PhD Graduates 2018
NAME SUPERVISORS TITLE PLACEMENT(S)

Chris Hookway

Robert Stern

Realism, Pluralism and Individualism: The Ethics and Metaphysics of William James

2019 - Present, СŷÊÓƵ of Roehampton

2018 - 2019, СŷÊÓƵ of Leeds

Andreas Bunge

Jules Holroyd

Tom Stafford

Luca Barlassina

The nature of attitudes. Currently working in President's Office

2018- present, Leuphana СŷÊÓƵ of Luneberg

Charlie Crerar

Miranda Fricker

Jules Holroyd

Vice epistemology

2018- present, post-doctoral researcher at  UConn and teaching associate СŷÊÓƵ of Leeds

PhD Graduates 2016
NAME SUPERVISORS TITLE PLACEMENT(S)

Jenny Saul

Miranda Fricker

Ontic Injustice

2020 - Present, СŷÊÓƵ of Glasgow

2016 - 2020, Ð¡Å·ÊÓƵ of Nottingham

PhD Graduates 2015
NAME SUPERVISORS TITLE PLACEMENT(S)
Peter Caven

Yonatan Shemmer

George Botterill

Moral Disagreement – A Psychological Account and the Political Implications

2018 - Present, Research Growth Officer 

2016-2018, Interdisciplinary Research Development Officer 

2015-2016, Note taker for disabled students

Chris Bennett

Robert Stern

Reason, Freedom and Morality: An Interpretation and Defence of Kant's Groundwork III

2018 - Present, Durham СŷÊÓƵ

2015 - 2018, СŷÊÓƵ of Leeds

PhD Graduates 2014
NAME SUPERVISORS TITLE PLACEMENT(S)

Chris Bennett

Jenny Saul

Romantic Love and Monogamy: A Philosophical Exploration

2017 - Present, СŷÊÓƵ of Leeds

2016 - 2017, Teacher

2014 - 2016, Civil Service

PhD Graduates 2011
NAME SUPERVISORS TITLE PLACEMENT(S)

Eric Olson

Bob Hale

Dominic Gregory

Grounding Fiction

2016 - Present, СŷÊÓƵ College Dublin

2012 - 2016, Humboldt СŷÊÓƵ of Berlin

2011 - 2012, Ð¡Å·ÊÓƵ of Barcelona

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