Postgraduate study

We offer comprehensive postgraduate training in experimental philosophy. Dedicated experimental philosophy pathways in two taught courses cover philosophical foundations and applications as well as empirical research design and analysis:

MRes in Social Science Research Methods (until 2023/24)

MRes in Philosophy (from 2024/25)

Alice Wheatley (ongoing). Understanding our environment and the guiding role of our epistemic state (supervisor: James Andow)

Catherine M. Sayer (ongoing). The development of gaze understanding (supervisor: Martin Doherty)

Carys Seeley (2022) ‘“It’s not all doom and gloom, it’s life”: parental beliefs and parent-child conversations about death and their influence on children’s developing conceptions of death.’ https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90902/ (supervisors: Gavin Nobes & Georgia Panagiotaki)

Matthew Spriggs (2021). The influence of empathy on episodic memory for emotional details and theory of mind. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90525/ (supervisors: Louis Renoult & Martin Doherty)

Theodora Karadaki (2020). Common development of theory of mind and referent selection. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74473/ (Supervisor: Martin Doherty).

Lambert, Rachel (2020). The benefits of the autobiographical significance of general knowledge in young and older adults. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82642/ (supervisor: Louis Renoult)

Ian Hare (2019) Semantic feature dissociation: a new hypothesis concerning autism. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71297/ (supervisors: Eugen Fischer & Paul Engelhardt)