Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I supervise postgraduate students in the following areas:

Philosophy of Psychology (belief, delusion, confabulation, distorted memory, rationality, cognitive biases, agency)

Philosophy of Psychiatry (classification and diagnosis, psychiatric ethics, notion of mental disorder, youth mental health).

Currently I am supervising the following students:

Rosa Ritunnano
Aneela Khan
Kathleen Murphy-Hollies
Chloe Bamboulis
Jane Kisbey
Rafael Ambriz Gonzalez
Jessica Sutherland
Lucy Prior
Joseph Houlders
Noorit Larsen
Lou Teyssedou
Aisha Qadoos


The following students have successfully completed:

Andrew Wright (The Problems of Pain), viva passed in February 2015.
Andrew Woodhall (Addressing Anthropocentrism in Nonhuman Ethics), viva passed in December 2016.
Isaura Peddis (Empathy as an Emotion), viva passed in September 2017.
Rachel Gunn (Delusions and Affective Framing), viva passed in November 2017.
Magdalena Antrobus (Epistemic and Psychological Benefits of Depression), viva passed in November 2017.
Ben Costello (Moral Sequencing and Intervening to Prevent Harm), viva passed in December 2018.
Alex Miller Tate ('Radical' Cognitive Science and Philosophical Psychopathology: The case of depression), viva passed in February 2019.
Matilde Aliffi (Epistemic Rationality of Emotions: A new defence), viva passed in April 2019.
Markella Grigoriou (Blunted affect, social withdrawal and suicide in Schizophrenia), viva passed in November 2020.
Federico Bongiorno (Strange Beliefs: Essays on delusion formation), viva passed in November 2020.
Valeria Motta (Being Present in Times of Absence: A Philosophical and Empirical Enquiry on Loneliness and Solitude), viva passed in December 2020.
Eugenia Lancellotta (Can delusions be adaptive? The case of OCD), viva passed in October 2021.

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  • 2017

    Delusion

    Bortolotti, L. & Gunn, R., 2017, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online. Routledge

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  • 2014

    The vulnerability approach to animal ethics

    Bortolotti, L., 2014, Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen. Ferrari, A. & Petrus, K. (eds.). Transcript Verlag

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  • 2009

    Delusion

    Bortolotti, L., 16 Sept 2009, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online resource).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary