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Departmental officers

Keith Allen

Professor

Head of Department

Research interests:

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

Mary Leng

Professor

Deputy Head of Department Semester 1 2025-2026

Research interests:

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

Rob Trueman

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Head of Department Semester 2 2025-2026

Research interests:

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

Matthew Ratcliffe

Professor

Director of Research

Research interests:

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

Jamie Buckland

Senior Lecturer

Chair of Departmental Education Committee

Research interests:

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

David Ingram

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Chair, Departmental Education Committee

Research interests:

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Time

Daniel Morgan

Lecturer

Equality Champion

Exams and Disability Officer, including Board of Examiners Chair

Research interests:

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

Christopher Jay

Lecturer

Director of First-Year Programme

David Worsley

Senior Lecturer

Undergraduate Admissions, Outreach and Open Day Officer

Research interests:

  • Philosophy of religion
  • Philosophical theology
  • Analytic theology

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

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)