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Interdisciplinary Frameworks Dissertation Titles
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Interdisciplinary Frameworks Dissertation Titles
Proposed PhD Title 1: Bridging European and Anglo-American Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Understanding Legal and Literary Fictions
The role of fictions in thinking, interpretation, and meaning-making has been the subject of research in different fields such as legal theory, doctrinal scholarship, literary studies, and analytic philosophy for a long time. However, Garo (2025) points out that this research are still scattered and without a comprehensive conceptual framework that brings together the insights of different academic traditions. European continental and Anglo-American law-and-literature approaches have developed alongside each other without communication, which has led to theoretical gaps that hinder the role of legal fiction in philosophy to the greatest extent. This dissertation advocates for a unified interdisciplinary model to bridge these traditions.
Problem Statement:
Due to a lack of an organised interdisciplinary framework which combines the legal-historical, doctrinal, literary and analytic philosophical approaches, scholars are not able to achieve a full understanding of fiction’s operation through different traditions and disciplines.
Research Gap:
Current literature has not yet connected European continental and Anglo-American schools of thought with regard to fiction and has still not come up with a cross-disciplinary synthesis in legal theory, doctrinal law, literary scholarship, and analytic philosophy, leading to separate conceptualisations and little comparative understanding.
Research question:
In what ways can a framework that integrates different disciplines and traditions be created to merge the European and Anglo-American views on legal and literary fictions, and what would be the benefits of such a resolution in terms of clarity of concepts?
Outcome:
The study will lead to the creation of a comprehensive Interdisciplinary philosophy and law model that integrates the inputs of legal theorising, doctrinal case studying, literary narratology, and analytic philosophy. This model will then yield stronger and more comparative conceptualisation of fictions, which will in turn produce richer theoretical and cultural exchanges. The project aims to cover significant deficiencies by offering a single, integrative perspective that advances the fictionality studies in legal and philosophical scholarship.
Reference:
Garo, N. (2025). Queering the Gap: Embracing a Queer-Inclusive Learning Process in Teaching Philosophy.
Proposed PhD Title 2. Towards a Unified Theory of Fictionality: Integrating Legal, Literary, and Philosophical Approaches Across Disciplines
While people from different areas of study consider it as a fact that fictions play the main role in legal reasoning, narrative construction, conceptual modelling, and analytic argumentation, research is still segregated, and there is almost no conversation between doctrinal legal scholarship, law-and-literature studies, analytic philosophy, and European philosophical traditions, as Garo (2025) pointed out. The absence of a common ground in concepts among scholars hampers their grasp of the role of fictionality as a methodological, interpretive, and pedagogical instrument. The aim of this dissertation is to first and then create a unified theoretical and methodological synthesis which will be able to break through such boundaries between the disciplines.
Problem Statement:
The fragmented treatment of fictions over the three disciplines-hence legal studies, literature and philosophy-prevents the formation of unified Philosophical theories of fiction that can take in the whole range of conceptual and methodological variations across different disciplines.
Research gap:
At present, there is no interdisciplinary synthesis made that draws doctrinal law, legal theory, literary studies, and analytic philosophy together. What is more, there is no such integrative model that consistently relates the perspectives of European continental philosophy with those of Anglo-American traditions in the study of fiction.
Research Question:
Which theoretical and methodological frameworks can bring together research on fictionality from different disciplines and traditions, and in which way can such a model enhance the clarity of concepts and coherence in analysis for both legal and literary studies?
Outcome:
The project will yield a singular theory of fictionality philosophy that is based on different disciplines and comparative traditions. It will provide a united conceptual map that links legal doctrine, jurisprudence, literary theory, and analytic philosophy. This framework will be a powerful tool in bridging major gaps by making it possible to carry out more coherent theoretical analyses and thus facilitating academic convergence across cultures in the study of fictions.
Reference:
Garo, N. (2025). Queering the Gap: Embracing a Queer-Inclusive Learning Process in Teaching Philosophy.
Proposed PhD Title 3. Integrating Classical Educational Philosophies into Islamic Higher Education: Bridging the Gap Between Normative Theory and Empirical Teaching Practice
Educational philosophy has, for a long time, influenced the theoretical frameworks in teaching and learning, but the practical aspect of it in the classroom—particularly in Islamic philosophy of education—remains to be explored to a large extent. Marzulina and his colleagues (2025) point out that there is a constant disconnect between the standard philosophical theories and the real situations of teachers’ pedagogical practices. Furthermore, previous research is predominantly Western-centred, has no comparative data across different programs, and seldom looks into the relationship between Islamic values and classical philosophical schools. This study intends to close the gap between these two different concepts and contexts.
Problem Statement:
Islamic higher education lecturers’ interpretation and implementation of classical educational philosophy theories, through the lack of empirical inquiry as well as the non-integration of philosophical theories of fiction, Islamic values, and realistic teaching practices, are the sources of major misunderstanding about the traditions that influence the pedagogical reality.
Research Gap:
Previous scholarship is conceptual rather than empirical; Western frameworks are predominant; Islamic pedagogical values are hardly considered; cross-program perspectives in Indonesian Islamic higher education are limited; and no research has drawn the connection between Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, and Existentialism within the everyday practices of lecturers in Islamic contexts.
Research Question:
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Outcome:
The outcome of this PhD research will be the development of a unified framework that includes: Optimised crystallisation methods (microseeding, slow vapour diffusion, temperature gradient, mechanochemical crystallisation), computational crystallography (crystal structure prediction, packing energy profiling), DFT-guided refinement of geometry and coordination modes, cross-validation using spectroscopic fingerprints and thermodynamic descriptors.
Reference:
Marzulina, L., Purnomo, M. E., Sumarni, S., & Maharani, S. D. (2025). Lecturers, philosophy, and classrooms: The struggles of the four schools of educational thought in teaching practices. Indonesian Research Journal in Education (IRJE), 9(02), 1304–1318. https://online-journal.unja.ac.id/irje/article/download/47975/22355/157068
Proposed PhD Title 4. Integrating Classical Educational Philosophies into Islamic Higher Education: An Empirical Framework for Bridging Normative Theory and Teaching Practice
The link between education philosophies and the way they are practised has been a matter of discussion all over the world, but the exact proof of it happening in the Islamic universities is still lacking. Marzulina and colleagues (2025) point out that the teachers working in the university often find it difficult to express as well as practice the classical philosophical schools of Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, and Existentialism. The authors’ conclusions bring to light that the dichotomy between philosophical theories and the day-to-day realities of teaching is still there. What the present studies show is mostly the western educational hegemonies rather than how the philosophical inclinations were actually interpreted in the Islamic world. This negligence of empirical research does not allow for the realisation of how the Islamic values communicate with the main philosophical traditions in supporting the pedagogical behaviour formation.
Problem Statement:
There is a persistent disconnect between the empirical research in philosophy of education as a normative concept and the empirical teaching practice in Islamic higher education system. The philosophical traditions’ influence on the pedagogical decisions of the professors is still not examined enough due to the lack of structured empirical analysis.
Research gap:
Marzulina et al. (2025) have pointed out that the present literature consists mostly of conceptual studies, primarily based on Western models and seldom dealing with Islamic higher education. Comparative perspectives between programs are rare, and interactions between Islamic values and the philosophers’ schools that the lecturers claim to adopt remain unexplored.
Research Question:
What steps are needed to build an empirical structure that can assess and apply the main philosophical movements of Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, and Existentialism to the educators’ methods in Islamic tertiary education?
Outcome:
The research will yield an empirical framework that merges Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, and Existentialism into the practices of teaching in Islamic higher education colleges and universities. The impact of the philosophical schools and the Islamic values on the teaching style across the different programs will be highlighted, thus closing the gap between theory and practice, and rendering a clearer understanding of the philosophy in the context of the classroom.
Reference:
Marzulina, L., Purnomo, M. E., Sumarni, S., & Maharani, S. D. (2025). Lecturers, philosophy, and classrooms: The struggles of the four schools of educational thought in teaching practices. Indonesian Research Journal in Education (IRJE), 9(02), 1304–1318. https://online-journal.unja.ac.id/irje/article/download/47975/22355/157068
Proposed PhD Title 5. Developing a Structuralist Framework to Bridge Philosophy of Science and Machine Learning: Examining Ontological Assumptions in Neural Network Representations
The philosophy of science and machine learning (ML) are very similar in terms of their concepts, especially in the areas of representation, modelling, and explanation. Nevertheless, as Culcu and Yildiz (2025) point out, the two areas of research continue to be disconnected at the most basic level. Those who study machine learning create more and more complicated systems for representing things, but do not care to think about the philosophical assumptions that are hidden underneath the surface; on the other hand, philosophers talk about AI representation and cognition without very much if any, reference to the actual mechanisms of neural networks. The goal of this PhD dissertation is to apply structuralist analysis of neural network representations in order to eliminate the gap systematically.
Problem Statement:
Philosophical representation studies have far and away been incompatible with the practical scenario of machine learning systems. The existence of a framework that is not unified hinders the very systematic analysis of the ontological assumptions that are embedded in neural networks.
Research gap:
Currently, ML research interprets abilities and represents models without considering their philosophical implications, whereas the philosophers conduct conceptual discussions without scrutinising the actual neural network functioning. There is no comprehensive framework that links these areas together or maps out their common beliefs.
Research Question:
What is the process to create a structuralist decision framework that would methodically categorise the ontological and representational presuppositions of the neural network model and thus close the foundational divisions between the philosophy of science and machine learning?
Outcome:
You will be expected to create and utilise a structuralist analytical framework, which will reveal the hidden ontology of neural networks in ML research. This (the framework) will illuminate conceptual issues, link philosophical theories of representation to the practice in ML and finally, lay down a systematic base for interdisciplinary debates between philosophy of science and machine learning.
Reference:
Culcu, Yildiz. (2025). Bridging Philosophy and Machine Learning: A Structuralist Framework for Classifying Neural Network Representations. arXiv preprint, 2511.18633v1. https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18633
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