Dorothea Debus
Lecturer

Profile

Career

2007 - Lecturer in Philosophy University of York
2004 - 2007 Supernumerary Teaching Fellow St John's College, Oxford
2004 DPhil  Oxford
2000 BPhil Oxford
1998 MA Munich

Departmental roles

  • Admissions Tutor for Undergraduates
  • Sociology/Philosophy Joint Executive Committee member

Research

Overview

Research interests

Philosophy of Mind and Psychology; Ethics, Epistemology and Metaphysics.

Current projects

At present, I am thinking and writing about memory and the emotions. I have recently also started work on a new research project, tentatively entitled 'Mind and Will: The Metaphysics and Ethics of Mental Life', which explores how subjects take an active part in their own mental lives.

Publications

Selected publications

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Free Will and Moral Responsibility
  • Knowledge and Perception

Postgraduate

  • Epistemology and Metaphysics
  • MA Project on 'Emotions and Their Objects'
  • MA thesis supervision
  • PhD thesis supervision
Dorothea Debus (c) Ian Martindale (www.ianmartindale.co.uk)

Contact details

Dr Dorothea Debus
Lecturer
Department of Philosophy
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

Tel: 01904 323263