Joseph Ulatowski
Supervision
Information for undergraduates and graduate students is found below. The University of Waikato offers the following graduate degrees in philosophy: MA, MSocSc, and PhD, and I have the capacity to take on one or two students per year as a chief supervisor.
I am also open to co-supervising an MA or PhD with a colleague from another university. For example, I co-supervised with Diane Proudfoot a thesis completed at the University of Canterbury (NZ) and am currently a co-supervisor for a thesis being completed at Jagiellonian University (PL).
Information for all students
How to be a good student
How to read philosophical works
How to write for philosophy
How to ask for letters of recommendation
Email policy
Generative AI policy
Information for postgraduate students
What you should know about graduate study
How to be a good graduate student
How to prepare a PhD thesis proposal
How to write a thesis or dissertation
How to prepare for a post-doc or the job market
Example of thesis proposal: André Alessi
Example of thesis proposal: Ben Young
Example of an Outstanding MA thesis: Jay Evans
Example of an Outstanding PhD thesis: Ben Young
Current PhD students and area:
Chief Supervisions
André Alessi - Expertise and social epistemology
Subhan Fazli - Cross-linguistic study of the nature of truth
Supervision panels
Jay Evans - Panpsychism
Susanna Kruger - Indigenous Culture and Sustainability
Sara Malik (Linguistics) - Corpus analysis of breast cancer narratives
Mika Pursianien - Virtue theory and self-narratives
Current MA students and area:
Jessie Bea - Leibniz's natural philosophy
Miriam Hare - Friedrich Hayek's political philosophy
Serrano Lorenz - Agency and AI
Agata Paszke - Experimental philosophy of language
Completed PhDs:
Fraser King (2018)
Paul Hubble (2020)
Benjamin David Young (2024)
Furkan Yazici (2025)