Supervision
Supervision
I am available for, and interested in, supervising students, at any level, in any of the following areas:
- History of logic
- Logic (mathematical, philosophical, modal, etc.)
- Philosophy of language (especially philosophy of fiction)
- Philosophy of logic
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Medieval philosophy (especially logic/philosophy of language)
- Informal argumentation
- Human and machine reasoning
If you are a student at Durham and interested in working with me, please send me an email to set up an appointment to meet. If you are not currently a student at Durham, but are interested in being supervised by me, please see the departmental pages on taught degrees and research degrees to see the possible opportunities.
Current students
Camelia Cazan | Master of Data Science (Durham) |
Zekiye Goz | PhD, philosophy (Durham) |
Francesca Hibbit | BA, philosophy (Durham) |
Mingyue Liu | PhD, computer science (Durham) |
Venetia Moir | BA, philosophy (Durham) |
Kit Moore | BA, philosophy (Durham) |
Cheks Nweze | Master of Data Science (Durham) |
Simon Schmahl | BA, philosophy (Durham) |
Máté Szebenyi | BA, philosophy & psychology (Durham) |
Xie Wei | PhD, linguistics (Durham) |
Joshua Yarrow | BA, natural sciences (Durham) |
Yan Xu | PhD, philosophy (Durham) |
Felipe Zarate | PhD, philosophy (Durham) |
Previous supervision & examination
PhDs
Name | Graduated | Degree (Place) | My role | Thesis title |
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Julie Lundbak Kofod | 2022 | PhD, philosophy (Roskilde University) | External examiner | What on Earth was Arthur Prior Thinking? About Physics and Hybrid Logic |
Adam Foxon | 2022 | PhD, history (Bishop Grosseteste University) | External examiner | Quod Homo sit Minor Mundus: Robert Grosseteste and the Potentiality of the Material World: Microcosmism and Deification in the Development of a Didactic Weltanschauung |
Andrew Thomas | 2021 | PhD, philosophy (Durham) | Primary supervisor | “Extended Modal Realism: a New Solution to Problems of Non-existence and Intentionality” |
Susan Notess | 2021 | PhD, philosophy (Durham) | Secondary supervisor | “Listening and Normative Entanglement: A Pragmatic Foundation for Conversational Ethics” |
Ştefan Sarkadi | 2020 | PhD, informatics (KCL) | External examiner | “Deception” |
Christophe Geudens | 2020 | PhD, philosophy (KULeuven) | External examiner | “Louvain Theories of Topical Logic” |
Andrew Woodard | 2019 | PhD, philosophy (Durham) | Primary supervisor | “Predication and Identity in Copular Sentences” |
Thomas J. Hughes | 2015 | PhD, philosophy (Durham) | Internal examiner | “Grammar, Ambiguity, and Descriptions: A Study in the Semantics of Definite Descriptions” |
Diplomas and Master’s degrees
Name | Graduated | Degree (Place) | My role | Thesis title |
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Fan Yu | 2023 | Master of Data Science (Durham) | Supervisor | “Machine Learning with TF-IDF Features Extraction for Sentiment Analysis of Movie Reviews” |
Yuting An | 2023 | Master of Data Science (Durham) | Supervisor | Exploration of Sentiment Analysis Based on RNN, LSTM, BERT Model and Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data” |
David Huang | 2023 | Master of Data Science (Durham) | Supervisor | “Political Leaning in Forum Discussion: A Look into Chinese NLP” |
Isabella Roper | 2023 | Master of Data Science (Durham) | Supervisor | “Trust and Big Data in the Covid-19 Pandemic: What is Necessary to Promote Trust in Data?” |
Nico Tansley | 2022 | MA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | |
Joshua Patterson | 2017 | MRes, philosophy (Oxford Brookes) | External examiner | “Aristotelian Philosophy Applied to Interactive Virtual Media: On the Effects of Transportation on the Player and the Practical Applications of Virtual Realites” |
Susan Notess | 2016 | Graduate Diploma, philosophy (Durham) | Co-supervisor | “Sacred Languages: A Phenomenological and Pragmatic Account of Sacred Language Use” |
Andrew Thomas | 2016 | MA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “What is Anna Karenina? How Fictional Realism can help dissolve the Paradox of Fictional Emotions” |
Antonio Florio | 2012 | Master of Logic (Amsterdam) | Supervisor | “Science in Axiomatic Perspective” |
Spencer Johnston | 2011 | Master of Logic (Amsterdam) | Internal examiner | “John Buridan’s Theory of Modal Consequence” |
Lars Wortel | 2011 | Master of Logic (Amsterdam) | Internal examiner | “Side Effects in Steering Fragments” |
Caroline Foster | 2008 | Master of Logic (Amsterdam) | Co-supervisor | “The Problem of the Perfect Agent: Investigations into Determinism” |
Undergraduate degrees
Name | Graduated | Degree (Place) | My role | Thesis title |
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Alim Demirbag | 2022 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Logical Models for Scientific Reasoning and Conceptual Revolutions” |
Benedict Gardner | 2022 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Cosmological Unity in the Presocratics and the Upanisads” |
Pete Ryall | 2022 | BA, philosophy & psychology (Durham) | Supervisor | “Narreality: Stories of Selves” |
Charlotte Chevrie | 2021 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Information in the natural world: a new attempt at solving the combination problem for Panpsychism” |
Annie Cole | 2021 | BA, philosophy & psychology (Durham) | Supervisor | “Towards solving the identity problem for In Re Structuralism” |
David Millross | 2021 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Are unicorns non-existent? Understanding a 17 th Century Buddhist logician’s justification of nonexistence proofs and wider account of āśrayāsiddha.” |
Jarren Santos | 2021 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “A framework for Code-Switching through the application of Propositional Dynamic Logic” |
Ana Truesdale | 2021 | BA, liberal arts (Durham) | Supervisor | “To what extent does gendered language in spanish inform machismo culture in the spanish speaking world?” |
Tristan Ashley | 2020 | BA, philosophy & psychology (Durham) | Supervisor | “Mean Something?” |
Charles Bland * | 2020 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Should New Axioms Be Added to the Foundations of Mathematics?” |
Sissy Chen | 2020 | BA, philosophy & English (Durham) | Supervisor | “Towards a Theory of Meaningful Language: Investigating Metaphors” |
Tom Katon | 2020 | BA, liberal arts (Durham) | Supervisor | “The IQ of AI: What Does it Mean to Call AI ‘Intelligent’?” |
George Singleton | 2020 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “The Unready-to-Hand Body: A Phenomenological Analysis of Anorexia Nervosa” |
Nicholas Tansley | 2020 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Junk-Time: A Cybernetic Theory of Mind and Addiction in Postmodernity” |
Kelly Wong | 2020 | BA, natural sciences (Durham) | Supervisor | “Does the Mathematical Structuralists’ Ontology Shape Reality?” |
Amber Mullins | 2019 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “A Philosophical Analysis of the Nonsense in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass“ |
Richard Burn | 2018 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Identity of Fictional Characters Across and Within Media” |
Luciana di Mascio | 2018 | BA, philosophy & psychology (Durham) | Supervisor | “A Philosophical Analysis of J.K. Rowling’s Account of Life After Death in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter” |
Samin Gokeckus * | 2018 | BA, philosophy & psychology (Durham) | Supervisor | “Elizabeth Hamilton’s Early 19th Century Scottish Associationism; Tracking Modern Developmental Psychology and Neuroscience” |
Grace Greer | 2018 | BA, natural sciences (Durham) | Supervisor | “Do Mathematical Statements Have Objective Truth-Values?” |
Tom Rojas | 2018 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Can Pascal’s Wager Resist Infinitesimal Probabilities?” |
Tomas Bermejo | 2017 | BA, natural sciences (Durham) | Supervisor | “Carnap and Quine’s Debate on Ontology” |
Nathan Davies | 2017 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “A Meaningless Dissertation: Why Meaning Can’t be Analysed in Terms of Truth” |
Amber Donovan * | 2017 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Egotistical Investigations: Diagnosing the Problem of My ‘Self'” |
Dan Foggin | 2017 | BA, natural sciences (Durham) | Supervisor | “Where Are They? A Solution to the Fermi Paradox Using the Anthropic Principle” |
Daniel Fox | 2017 | BA, philosophy & physics (Durham) | Supervisor | “Towards a New Conception of Human Rights” |
Andrea Mikulandova | 2017 | BA, natural sciences (Durham) | Supervisor | “Using Temporal Logic to Construct a Model of Restricted Time Travel Via Time Turners” |
Constance O’Conor | 2017 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “The Fairy Tale Paradox: Logical and Ethical Tensions in Teaching Fantastic Morals by Fantastic Means” |
Sophie Oliver | 2017 | BA, natural sciences (Durham) | Supervisor | “Realism in Mathematics: Set Theoretic Commitment to the Infinite” |
Sam Courtney-Guy | 2016 | BA, PPE (Durham) | Supervisor | “What Kind of Problem is Kripke’s Rule-Following Paradox?” |
David Harris | 2016 | BA, natural sciences (Durham) | Supervisor | “Artificial Intelligence and Philosophical Logic” |
Dirk Hofland | 2016 | BA, PPE (Durham) | Supervisor | “The School-Choice Trilemma” |
Imogen Maclaren | 2016 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Reappraising The Harm in Hate Speech: A Dynamic Approach to Freedom of Speech” |
Toby Smith | 2016 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Modelling Knowledge- and Belief-Based Moral Obligations: An Accessible Tool For Philosophical Analysis” |
Kim Tullar * | 2016 | BA, natural sciences (Durham) | Supervisor | “Clarifying and Solving Newcomb’s Problem” |
Anna Wallace | 2016 | BA, combined arts (Durham) | Supervisor | “Can There Be A Neuroscience of Grammaticalized Thought?” |
Kishen Vora | 2015 | BA, philosophy (Durham) | Supervisor | “Can Robots Be Moral?” |
* Winner of the Philosophy Department Dissertation Prize for dissertations with the highest mark out of all dissertations or out of all Single Honors philosophy students.
Other supervision
Maria Tolchenova | Laidlaw scholar, philosophy (Durham) |