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

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Keith Allen

Professor

Head of Department

Research interests:

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

Professor Sandrine Berges

British Academy Global Professor

Beverley Braithwaite

Administrator

Lauren Bramley

Student Wellbeing Officer

Jamie Buckland

Senior Lecturer

Chair of Departmental Education Committee

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

James Clarke

Senior Lecturer

Convener, MA in Political, Legal, Philosophy

Research interests:

  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Agency
  • Metaphysics of Mind

Giacomo Floris

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Research interests:

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

Giorgia Garilli

Student Services Administrator

Liz Greensted

PA to Head of Department / Research Administrator

Stephen Holland

Professor

Research interests:

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

Owen Hulatt

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Aesthetics (Analytic and non-Analytic)
  • History of Philosophy
  • Maimonides
  • Spinoza
  • Adorno

David Ingram

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Chair, Departmental Education Committee

Research interests:

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Time

Isabel Jagoe

Head of Faculty Operations

Christopher Jay

Lecturer

Director of First-Year Programme

Mary Leng

Professor

Deputy Head of Department

Research interests:

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

Alessandro Maniscalco

Finance Assistant

Fiona Meadows

Student Services Manager

Daniel Morgan

Lecturer

Exams and Disability Officer

Equality Champion

Research interests:

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

Paul Noordhof

Anniversary Professor of Philosophy

Research interests:

  • Belief
  • Causation
  • Consciousness
  • Imagination
  • Representation

Karen Norris

Student Services Coordinator

Martin O'Neill

Professor of Political Philosophy

Research interests:

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

Christian Piller

Professor

Visiting Students/Exchange

Research interests:

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

Matthew Ratcliffe

Professor

Director of Research

Research interests:

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

Anna Richardson

Student Services Administrator

Louise Richardson

Senior Lecturer

Director of Postgraduate Research

Fiora Salis

Lecturer

Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes

Careers, Industrial Placement

Research interests:

  • Imagination
  • Memory
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Fiction
  • Scientific models
  • Scientific thought experiments
  • Computational creativity

Andzelika Skarupa-McShane

Deputy Student Services Manager

Tom Stoneham

Professor of Philosophy

Convener, MA in Applied Ethics and Governance of Data Privacy

Research interests:

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

Dr Mike Stuart

Lecturer

Convener, MA in AI and Technology

Research interests:

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

Alan Thomas

Professor

Research interests:

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

Rob Trueman

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

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

David Worsley

Senior Lecturer

Undergraduate Admissions, Outreach, and Open Day Officer

Research interests:

  • Philosophy of religion
  • Philosophical theology
  • Analytic theology