Departmental officers
Research interests:
- Perception
- Colour
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Experimental Philosophy
Research interests:
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Philosophy of Science
- Fictionalism
- Maths and Metaethics
- Sex and Gender
Research interests:
- Philosophical logic
- Metaphysics
- History of early analytic philosophy
- Philosophy of language
Research interests:
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Psychiatry
- Philosophy of Mind
- Emotions, Feelings, and Moods
- Interpersonal Experience
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
Christian Piller
Professor
Exams and Disability Officer, including Board of Examiners Chair, Semester 1 2026 - 2027
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)
Daniel Morgan
Lecturer
Exams and Disability Officer, including Board of Examiners Chair, Semester 2 2026 - 2027
Equality Champion, Semester 2
- d.morgan@york.ac.uk
- +44 (0)1904 323262
- I/A/016A
Research interests:
- Addiction and compulsion
- Praise- and blame-worthiness
- Temporal thought
- Self-consciousness and self-knowledge
- Free will
Research interests:
- Philosophy of religion
- Philosophical theology
- Analytic theology
Louise Richardson
Senior Lecturer
Director of Postgraduate Research, Semester 1 2026 - 2027
Equality Champion, Semester 1
Research interests:
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Time
Research interests:
- Imagination
- Memory
- Knowledge
- Understanding
- Fiction
- Scientific models
- Scientific thought experiments
- Computational creativity