Academic and postgraduate members

The Centre for the History of Philosophy is an inter-disciplinary centre with members from a variety of different universities and disciplinary backgrounds.

Our members' work and teaching covers a wide range of historical philosophy topics. Find out more about their research interests, work and publications, or get in touch using the details below.

Name	University	Research interests
Jeremy Dunham	University of Durham	Idealism; Pragmatism; 18th and 19th-century French philosophy.
Clare Mac Cumhaill	University of Durham	Women in the history of analytic philosophy (especially Elisabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch); Stumpf; Husserl.
Joe Saunders	University of Durham	Ethics and agency in Kant and the post-Kantian tradition.
Emily Thomas	University of Durham	History of metaphysics, from the mid 17th to the early 20th-century.
Elisabeth Thorsson	University of Durham	The relationship between theology and politics in 17th century Europe; Locke, Damaris Masham, Anne Conway.
Sara Uckelmann	University of Durham	History of logic, especially history of modal logic and women in the history of logic.
Nick Jones	University of Leeds	Early Modern Philosophy, especially Berkeley; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche.
Panayiota Vassilopoulou	University of Liverpool	Ancient, Hellenistic, and Late-Antique Philosophy.
Rachael Wiseman	University of Liverpool	Women in the history of analytic philosophy (especially Elisabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch); Wittgenstein.
Joshua Fortenzer	University of Sheffield	American Pragmatism (especially John Dewey).
Angie Hobbs	University of Sheffield	Ancient Greek philosophy (including its reception in the Renaissance and the First World War), and ethics from classical thought to the present.
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc	University of Sheffield	The phenomenological tradition, especially Merleau-Ponty and Fanon.
Robert Stern	University of Sheffield	Nineteenth century post-Kantian German philosophy, especially Hegel; K. E. Løgstrup; Martin Luther.
Keith Allen	University of York	The early modern period, including Locke and Cavendish, and the phenomenological tradition, particularly Merleau-Ponty.
Jim Chamberlain	University of Sheffield	Early modern philosophy with a close focus on Hume, especially his theories of moral judgement, the passions, and automatic causal reasoning.
James Clarke	University of York	Rousseau; Post-Kantian practical philosophy, especially Erhard and Fichte.
Tim Stuart-Buttle	University of York	17th to 18th-century philosophy, from Hobbes to Hegel, with a particular focus on the perceived social, political, and moral consequences of mankind's desire for esteem and recognition.
Anna Ezekiel (Honorary Fellow)	University of York	Post-Kantian German philosophy; German romanticism; Historical women philosophers, particularly Karoline von Gunderrode.
Owen Hulatt	University of York	Spinoza's metaphysics; Hegel's aesthetics and social philosophy; Adorno's critical theory; Althusser's Marxism.
Tom Stoneham	University of York	Berkeley, Margaret Cavendish, Arthur Collier, Richard Burthogge and Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
Pavel Reichl	University of Groningen	Kant and post-Kantian philosophy; Early modern philosophy; Latin American philosophy.
Tom Fawcett	Postgraduate researcher, University of Sheffield	Nietzsche and the pre-Socratics.
Roderick Howlett	Postgraduate researcher, University of Sheffield	The Frankfurt School; Kierkegaard and Adorno.
Barney Riggs	Postgraduate researcher, University of Sheffield	Kierkegaard.
Thomas Dowling	Postgraduate researcher, University of York	Critical Theory; Hegel; Lukács.