Postgraduate Study at the School of Philosophy & Bioethics
1. In what areas can Monash Philosophy and Bioethics provide excellent supervision?
- Aesthetics: Alison Ross1, Elizabeth Coleman2, Andrew Benjamin1, Graham Oppy
- Applied Ethics: Justin Oakley, Rob Sparrow, Linda Barclay, Toby Handfield, Karen Green
- Ancient Philosophy: Dirk Baltzly, Michael Janover3, Andrew Benjamin
- Bioethics: Justin Oakley, Rob Sparrow, Linda Barclay
- Cognitive science/ philosophy of mind: Jakob Hohwy, Monima Chadha
- Continental Philosophy: Alison Ross, Andrew Benjamin, Karen Green
- Ethical Theory: Toby Handfield, Justin Oakley, Rob Sparrow, Linda Barclay
- Epistemology: John Bigelow, Graham Oppy
- Feminist Philosophy: Karen Green
- History of Philosophy in the 20th century: Lloyd Humberstone, Graham Oppy, John Bigelow, Karen Green
- Kant and the 19th Century: Alison Ross, Andrew Benjamin, Karen Green
- Formal and Philosophical Logic: Lloyd Humberstone, Graham Oppy
- Probability and Decision theory: Graham Oppy, John Bigelow, Kevin Korb4
- Medieval Philosophy: Karen Green, Constant Mews5
- Metaphysics: John Bigelow, Graham Oppy, Toby Handfield, Monima Chadha, Lloyd Humberstone, Nick Trakakis
- Indian Philosophy: Monima Chadha
- Philosophy of Language: Monima Chadha, Karen Green, John Bigelow, Graham Oppy
- Philosophy of Law: Toby Handfield, Patrick Emerton6, Dale Smith6
- Philosophy of Religion: Graham Oppy, Nick Trakakis
- Philosophy of Science: John Bigelow, Graham Oppy, Toby Handfield, Homer Le Grand, Jakob Hohwy
- Political Philosophy: Toby Handfield, Rob Sparrow, Linda Barclay, Karen Green
All these staff members publish in these areas and are happy to consider thesis proposals.
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
- Communications and Media Studies
- School of Political and Social Inquiry
- School of Information Technology
- Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology
- Monash Law School
2. How successful is Monash in placing PhD graduates into academic jobs?
- Dr. Fiona Leigh (ancient philosophy, 2007): Lecturer (tenure track), University College London
- Dr. Jill Craigie (moral psychology and meta-ethics, 2008): Post-doctoral fellowship, King’s College London
- Dr. Angela Ballantyne (Bioethics, 2006): Postdoc, Yale
- Dr. Simon Burgess (Ethics, 2006), Lecturer, CQU
- Dr. Neil Levy (Moral psychology, 2006), Assoc professor, University of Melbourne
- Dr. Jessica Wolfendale (Ethics, 2005), Assistant professor. West Virginia University
- Dr. Nick Trakakis (Philosophy of Religion, 2005), Lecturer, Deakin university
and the list goes on …
3. How successful is Monash in placing its MA students into PhD scholarships?
- Robert Simpson (Philosophy of religion, 2009), Oxford PhD scholarship
- Emilo Mora (Ethics, 2009), NYU PhD scholarship
- Leon Leontyev (Epistemology, 2008), ANU Research School, PhD scholarship
- Andrew Shortridge (Ancient philosophy, 2007), Cornell PhD scholarship
- Ole Koksvik (Metaphysics, 2006), ANU Research School, PhD scholarship
and the list goes on …