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Natalija Cera
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Antonio Pio De Mattia
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Lucas Dijker
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Marta Dmuchowska
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Max K. Feenan
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Grace Feeney
Thesis Title: “My own body defies exploration” – Finding the Female Body in and Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalytic Theory
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Samuel Ferns
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Evie Filea
Thesis Title: The Phenomenological Implications and Influences of Edward Bond’s Theory of Theatre
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Sophie Foley
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Misha Goudsmit
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Alessandro Guardascione
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David Haack
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Jo-El James
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Miho Kaneko
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Denise Kelly
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Haikyung Kwon
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Thomas Lewis
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Leung Yik Long
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Pepa Mellema
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Nathan Mulder
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Aisling Phipps
Thesis Title: Who Am I? A Phenomenology of Identity Disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder
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Rachel Russell
Thesis Title: Timelessness – Metaphysics and Perception in a Timeless World
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Clémence Saintemarie
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Petros Satrazanis
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Fanqi Sun
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Roxane Pret Théodore
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Philipp Wagenhals
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Danqi Wang
Thesis Title: The Non-Persistence and Re-Instantiation of Persons – Fission and the Transient Selves
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Shengwei Xu
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