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The Department of Philosophy is home to over 50 members of staff.

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Professor

Research interests:

  • Perception
  • Colour
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Phenomenology
  • Experimental Philosophy

Beverley Braithwaite

Administrator

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Agent-neutrality/relativity in metaethics
  • Practical reasoning
  • Personal idenity
  • Buddhism
  • Political theory 

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Property rights
  • Self-Ownership
  • Privacy

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Agency
  • Metaphysics of Mind

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Research interests:

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Cognitive Science
  • Phenomenology
  • Ecological Grief
  • Environmental Experience

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Research interests:

  • Basic equality
  • Moral status
  • Relational equality
  • Distributive justice

Liz Greensted

PA to Head of Department / Research Administrator

Jo Hawksworth

Student Services Manager

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Egalitarianism
  • Workplace Democracy
  • Analytical Socialism
  • Philosophy of Political Economy

Professor

Research interests:

  • Bioethics
  • Medical-aid-in-dying
  • Death
  • Public health ethics
  • Paternalism in public health

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Aesthetics
  • Post-Kantianism
  • Medieval Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Apophaticism

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Time

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations

Professor

Research interests:

  • Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Fictionalism
  • Maths and Metaethics
  • Sex and Gender

Marianne McNeill

Administration Manager

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Addiction and compulsion
  • Praise- and blame-worthiness
  • Temporal thought
  • Self-consciousness and self-knowledge
  • Free will

Anniversary Professor of Philosophy

Research interests:

  • Belief
  • Causation
  • Consciousness
  • Imagination
  • Representation

Student Services Coordinator

Professor of Political Philosophy

Research interests:

  • Political philosophy
  • Economic and social justice
  • Political economy
  • Public policy

Professor

Research interests:

  • Happiness and Well-Being
  • Theories of Fairness
  • Ethical Theory
  • Reasons and Rationality
  • Selected issues in epistemology (epistemic normativity, epistemic values)

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests:

  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of Psychiatry
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Emotions, Feelings, and Moods
  • Interpersonal Experience

Anna Richardson

Student Services Administrator

Andzelika Skarupa-Mcshane

Student Services Administrator

Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Nothingness and Possibility
  • Perception, Consciousness and Dreaming
  • Nightmares and Memory in Trauma
  • AI and Data Ethics

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Philosophy of scientific methods
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Scientific imagination
  • Aesthetics of science
  • Empirical methods in philosophy

Suzy Thom

Student Services Administrator

Professor

Research interests:

  • Egalitarianism
  • Reasons for Action
  • Virtue Ethics
  • Political Economy
  • Finance

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Research interests:

  • Philosophical logic
  • Metaphysics
  • History of early analytic philosophy
  • Philosophy of language

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Philosophy of religion
  • Philosophical theology
  • Analytic theology