ProfessorDavid Macarthur

Completed research students:

PhD

• Shane Waugh (2008), “Pyrrhonian Lessons on Common Sense and Belief”
• Ryan Wittingslow (2014), “Machines for Living: Philosophy of Technology and the Photographic Image” (Co-Supervisor)
• Tristan Haze (2017), “Necessity and Propositions” (Co-supervisor with Nicholas Smith)
• Blaise Prentice-Davidson (2019), "Scepticism And The Language Of Belief: James' 'The Will To Believe' And The Production Of Scepticism In Epistemology"
• Oliver Gordon (2020), “An Unknown Tongue: Voice as Method in the Work of Stanley Cavell”
• Dan Pash (2021), “Indefinite Precision: The Content and Criticism of Metaphors”
• Catherine Wesselinoff (née Haines) (2022), “Kaleidoscopes or Two Kinds of Beauty: The Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival Movements”
• Winston Leung (2023),“A Non-Ideal Epistemology of Disagreement: Pragmatism and the Need for Democratic Enquiry”

MPhil

• Nandi Theunissen (2006) “Truth, Realism and the Task of Inquiry” – High Distinction
• Alastair Goff (2008), “The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: Its Basis and Its Importance for Developing a Philosophical Understanding of Literary Works” – Distinction
• Ronan Williams (2012), “The Practical and Professional Dimensions of Skepticism about Others” – Distinction
• Alex Angel (2013), “McDowell and Experience: Self-Determination and Answerability to the World” – High Distinction
• Alistair Taylor (2017), “Truth and Assertion” – High Distinction
• Aaron Baird (2018), “'Enough Is Enough': Austin, Knowledge And Context”,- High Distinction standard

MA (res)

• Karl Hand (2008), “Sensitivity and Playfulness: The Role of Intention in Hermeneutics” – Distinction.
• Alistair Kitchen (2018), “Foundationalism, Representation and Truth: The Debate between Rorty and Haack” – High Distinction
• Swati Arora (2020), “What is Realistic about Putnam’s Scientific Realism?”