Postgraduate Prospectus

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Taught course modules
MA Continental
Philosophy
MA Philosophy and Health
Care Ethics
MA Philosophy and
Psychoanalysis
MA Philosophy, Politics
and Environmental Issues
MA Writing Workshop*
MA Seminar in Continental
Philosophy
Kant’s Revolution in
Philosophy
Hegel
Nietzsche
Heidegger
MA Ethics, Politics and
Public Policy
MA Writing Workshop*
MA Seminar in Ethics, Politics
and Public Policy
Two optional modules from
those offered by School of
Philosophy and Art History,
Departments of Government
and Sociology, or the School
of Law
MA Writing Workshop*
Phenomenology and Medicine
Illness and Existence
Legal and Ethical Issues
Human Responses in
Health and Illness
One Philosophy option
One Health and Human
Sciences option
MA Philosophy and Health
Care Law
MA Writing Workshop*
Legal Skills*
Phenomenology and Medicine
Illness and Existence
Health Care Law
One Philosophy option
One Law option
MA Writing Workshop*
Psychoanalytic Theory
Nietzsche
Heidegger
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis, Symbolism
and Unconscious
Freud and Object Relations or
Psychoanalytic Methodology
MA Philosophy, Law and
Human Rights
Legal, Moral and Political
Philosophy
International Human Rights
Law
Human Rights Colloquium
Philosophy and Rights
Ethics
Joint Seminar in Philosophy
and Law
Environmental Ethics
Philosophies of Nature
Philosophy and Rights
Environmental Politics
International Security Studies
Contemporary Theories
of Justice
* These modules are optional, but strongly
recommended.
All taught courses include a dissertation
(15,000 – 16,000 words).
This information is a guide to course
content and is subject to change on an
annual basis.
For full listings of all optional modules
available, please visit:
www.essex.ac.uk/philosophy.
Staff and their research interests
Will Cartwright, BA LLM London, BPhil
Oxford (Lecturer)
Philosophy of mind; philosophy of action;
theory of responsibility; philosophy of law;
ethics; medical ethics
Peter Dews, BA Cambridge, MA Essex,
PhD Southampton (Professor)
History of German idealism; the Frankfurt
School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas,
Honneth); post-structuralism and
postmodernism; philosophical issues in
psychoanalysis (especially Lacan)
Fabian Freyenhagen, BA Oxford, PhD
Sheffield (Lecturer)
Political philosophy and its history; ethics
(particularly Kant’s and Kantian ethics);
modern European philosophy (especially
the Frankfurt School)
Béatrice Han-Pile, Ecole Normale
Supérieure d’Ulm Agrégation PhD Paris XII
(Professor)
Foucault and modern continental
philosophy, especially French; German
philosophy (Kant, Schopenhauer,
Nietzsche, Husserl); past and
contemporary theories of art (Heidegger,
Merleau-Ponty, Maldiney)
Fiona Hughes, MA Edinburgh, DPhil
Oxford (Lecturer)
Kant; Nietzsche; eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century German philosophy;
aesthetics and epistemology; political
philosophy; philosophy of history
Patrice Maniglier, École Normale
Supérieure d’Ulm, Agrégation de
Philosophie Thèse de Doctorat Paris X
(Lecturer)
History of structuralism and
post-structuralism in social sciences
(especially linguistics, anthropology and
psychoanalysis) and philosophy;
twentieth-century French philosophy
(from Sartre to Deleuze); conceptual and
post-conceptual arts; film studies; sexual
politics and philosophy of law
Wayne Martin, BA Cambridge, PhD
Berkeley (Professor)
Post-Kantian idealism and
twentieth-century phenomenology, with
emphasis on issues about consciousness,
intentionality and meaning
David McNeill, BA Annapolis, MA PhD
Chicago (Lecturer)
Ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle);
German philosophy of the
nineteenth- and twentieth-century
(Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger); moral
philosophy and the relation between
ethics and metaphysics
Daniel Watts, BA PhD Sheffield (Lecturer)
Kierkegaard; Wittgenstein;
phenomenology; existentialism; moral
philosophy; aesthetics and the philosophy
of religion
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