Postgraduate completions in Philosophy and Bioethics
Recent Ph.D. completions
Paul Biegler (2008), Autonomy and ethical treatment in depression. Supervisors: Justin Oakley, Helga Kuhse, and A/Prof. Nicholas Allen (Dept. of Psychology, Melbourne Uni.) (Tutor, Monash Philosophy and Bioethics.)
Russell Blackford (2008), The philosophy of human enhancement. Supervisor: Justin Oakley. (Professional author.)
Jill Craigie (2008), Examining the explanatory leap from brain studies to moral theory. Supervisors: Jeanette Kennett and Dirk Baltzly.
Andrew Crowden (2008), Virtue ethics and professional psychotherapy. Supervisor: Justin Oakley.
Mark Edwards (2008), Lucretian Presentism: An internally consistent rival to four dimensionalism. Supervisors: Graham Oppy and John Bigelow.
Nick Eliopoulos (2008), Civic Friendship in Plato's republic: what is it and how is it produced? Supervisors: Dirk Baltzly and Karen Green.
Neil Hamley (2008), A study of the individual, intelligible soul in the Enneads. Supervisors: Dirk Baltzly and Monima Chadha.
Michael McGann (2008), Just Diversity and the Diversity of Justice. Supervisors: Karen Green and Rob Sparrow.
Brunton Stewart (2008), Consciousness in Dennett: Explained or Ignored. Supervisors: Graham Oppy and Ian Gold.
Luke Thompson (2008), Varieites of Holism and the Justification of Deduction. Supervisors: Karen Green and Lloyd Humberstone.
Fiona Leigh (2007), Being as Power: a reading of Plato's Sophist. (Research Fellow, King's College London.)
Lesley Stonehouse-Caust (2007), The Irreducible Other: the second sex meets this sex which is not one: women and subjectivity in Beauvoir and Irigary. (Currently Senior Teacher, Shelford Girls' Grammar.)
Angela Ballantyne (2006), Exploitation in HIV/ AIDS International Clinical Research. (Donaghue Visiting Scholar, Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.)
Simon Burgess (2006), Consequentialism: an ironic view. (Currently Welfare Reform Senior Project Officer, Cape York Institute.)
Ros Furney (2006), Multiple personality disorder: the ethical and conceptual implications of a realist perspective on multiple personality disorder. (Lecturer, Monash Philosophy and Bioethics.)
Ron Gallagher (2006), Depiction and Recognition. (Research Manager, Monash English, Communications and Performance Studies.)
Neil Levy (2006), Knowledge and Control: Compatibilist Account of Moral Responsibility. (Senior Research Fellow, CAPPE.)
Michael Taylor (2006), An examination of the aesthetic qualities of medical science: simplicity, elegance and the one gene - one disease assumption.
Kylie McShane (2005), A Neo-Strawsonian Transcendental Argument.
Nick Trakakis (2005), The God beyond belief: a defence of William Rove's evidential argument from evil.(Currently research assistant, Monash Philosophy and Bioethics.)
Jessica Wolfendale (2005), Nothing Personal: The Moral Psychology of Military Torture. (ARC Post-doc at CAPPE.)
Jacinta Kerin (2004), The matter of metaphysics: Bergon, Bioethics and Feminism.
John Maher OMI (2004), God's Eternity. (Catholic Theological College, Melbourne.)
Mark English (2003), The Thought of Louis Rougier.
Toby Handfield (2003), Active dispositions. (Lecturer, Monash Philosophy and Bioethics.)
Joanne Van Ryn (2003), Becoming Eudaimon: Plato and Aristotle on happiness and human nature. (Victorian Public Service.)
Alan Crooke (2002), Confabulating consciousness. (Lecturer, Charles Sturt University.)
Neil McKinnon (2002), Passage, persistence and precision. (Monash ARC PD)
John O'Dea (2002), Sensory qualities: an indexical route to a dispositional account. ( ARC Research Fellow, ANU.)
Susan Sulcs (2002), Maxwellian Renaissance and the illusion of quantization.
Merle Spriggs (2002), Autonomy and patients' decisions.
William Webster (2002), An analysis of colour as an objective property of objects in the world.
Jeremy Aarons (2001), Thinking locally: a disunified methodology of science. (Research Fellow, Monash IT.)
Sam Butchart (2001), Evidence and explanation in mathematics. (Research Fellow, Monash Philosophy and Bioethics.)
Steve Coleman (2001), The ethical implications of human ectogenesis. (Research Fellow, CAPPE.)
Oleg Donskikh (2001), Russian philosophy as an expression of Russian national consciousness.
Mianna Lotz (2001), Imagining that one does: attaining ideal agency.(Lecturer, Macquarie University.)
Konrad Talmont-Kaminski (2001), Pragmatic rationality and the problem of induction. (Lecturer, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland.)
Steve Curry (2000), Indigenous sovereignty and the democratic project. (Lecturer in Philosophy at Charles Sturt University.)
David Neil (2000), Moral conventionalism. (Lecturer in Philosophy and Bioethics at University of Wollongong.)
Helen Prosser (2000), Metaphor and theories of meaning. (Librarian, Northern Lakes College, Canada.)
Robyn Barnacle (1999), Eros and Ethos: an inquiry into the erotic nature of our being in the world. (Research Fellow, RMIT University.)
Jacqueline Broad (1999), The impertinencies of a woman's pen: a study of the metaphysical views of four early modern women philosophers. (Currently ARC postdoc. at Monash Philosophy.)
Brian Weatherson (1999), On uncertainty. (Associate Professor, Cornell University.)
Thomas Bull (1998), Subjunctive conditionals.
Yasmine Fauzee (1998), Meeting the challenge: liberalism and the collective rights of indigenous peoples.
Martin Leckey (1998), The computable universe: from prespace metaphysics to discrete quantum mechanics.
Jim Rountree (1998), Teleosemantics: function, norm and meaning.
E. Bruce Stewart (1998), Bread and roses, autonomy and flourishing in community.
Damian Verdnik (1998), Discovery changes everything: studies in the history and interpretation of modern physics.
Jo Asscher (1997), One step back: in defence of other moral judgments and incoherence against Rawls.
Linda Barclay (1997), Liberalism and morality. (Lecturer, Monash Centre for Human Bioethics.)
Monima Chadha (1997), Knowing what it means. (Lecturer, Monash Philosophy and Bioethics.)
Steve Matthews (1997), Matters in survival. (Lecturer in Philosophy at Charles Sturt University.)
Daniel Vine (1997), The enamoured judge: disinterestedness and the nude. (Currently senior teacher at Melbourne High.)
Recent M.A. completions
Ignasius Ngari (2009), A Limited Relation But Not a Total Separation: The Relation Between the State and Religion in a Pluralist Democratic State, with specific reference to Indonesia. Supervisors: Karen Green and Toby Handfield.
Robert Simpson (2009), Life After Death and the Limitations of Theodicy. Supervisors: Graham Oppy and Dirk Baltzly. Rob has been awarded an Oxford college-faculty scholarship to study the D.Phil. commencing in October 2009.
Ainsley Castelow (2008), Dividing Theories of Well-being. Supervisors: Dirk Baltzly and Toby Handfield.
Leon Leontyev (2008), From Sensitivity to Entitlements: The Case Against Deductive Closure. Supervisors: Graham Oppy and John Bigelow.
Emilio Mora (2008), Understanding Harming Actions: A Defence of the Harm-State Theory. Supervisors Toby Handfield and Rob Sparrow. Emilio has been awarded a scholarship to study a PhD at New York University commencing in September 2009.
Shannon Weekes (2008), Catharine Macaulay’s Metaphysics of Morals: From Metaphysics to Philosophy of Education. Supervisors: Karen Green and Dirk Baltzly.
Sam Hoffman (2007), Meanings Redescribed.
Andrew Shortridge (2007), Nomos and Phusis: Their Role in Sophistic Ethical Theory.
Ole Koksvik (2006), In Defence of Interactionism. Ole was awarded the 2006 Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for masters thesis excellence.
Venkataraman Vaiyavur Raghupathi (2006), Conservation of Nature: a perspective from the Bhagavadgita.
Russell Downham (2003), Morality and the Emotions.
Kim Little (2003), Making history: bioethics, culture and the history of moral ideas. Kim was awarded the prize for the best M.A. thesis in the Monash Faculty of Arts, 2002.
David Tegart (2003), Two semantic reductions in Dummett's anti-realism.
Jon Barlow (2002), The moral and political philosophy of the Middle Stoa, in its historical context.
Sandy Boucher (2002), Realism and Anti-Realism.
Clare McCausland (2002), Would there be numbers if there were no people? An approach from the problem of the many.
Sam Gates (1999), The spider's cup: contextual relativity and programmatic scepticism.
Callan Ledsham (1999), Hume, materialism, and the soul.
Ian Mond (1999), Maimonides on human perfection.
Eng Teo (1999), An excursion in comparative epistemological theories.
Clive Madder (1997), The limits of literature: Jacques Derrrida's reading of Maurice Blanchot.