Drawing on philosophy’s past to shape its future.
Our research spans a broad range of areas and is characterised by a distinctive collaborative and interdisciplinary ethos. Departmental research is organised into three core research sections. Within these sections, we pursue a variety of research activities, including major, externally funded research projects, and ongoing international collaborations. Click on the research section links below for further information concerning the research interests and activities of our academic staff and research students working within each section.
We collaborate with interdisciplinary centres within the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York:
Several of our academic staff and postgraduate students are members of the Centre for the History of Philosophy - one of the UK’s largest groups of scholars working in the history of philosophy.
We also have strong links with the York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy.
This Forum brings together philosophy postgraduate research students from the Universities of Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York to foster research links in the postgraduate community and enhance their research skills.
