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History of Philosophy
People
Staff
- Professor Keith Allen Locke on perception, Margaret Cavendish and Merleau-Ponty.
- Professor Tom Baldwin (emeritus)
G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and early analytic philosophy; Merleau-Ponty.
- Dr James Clarke Rousseau's moral psychology, especially his account of amour-propre and political philosophy. Post-Kantian practical philosophy, especially Erhard, Fichte, and Hegel and the philosophy of recognition.
- Dr Stephen Everson Ancient philosophy with emphasis on Plato and Aristotle.
- Dr Owen Hulatt Spinoza's metaphysics, Hegel's aesthetics and social philosophy. Adorno's critical theory and Althusser's Marxism.
- Honorary Visiting Professor Sarah Hutton The history of early modern philosophy, especially 17th-century British philosophy. Special interests in the Cambridge Platonists and women philosophers.
- Dr David Ingram
Rationalist metaphysics (Spinoza & Leibniz)
- Professor Marie McGinn (Emeritus) Wittgenstein.
- Professor Matthew Ratcliffe Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.
- Professor Tom Stoneham Berkeley, Margaret Cavendish, Arthur Collier, Richard Burthogge and Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
- Dr Rob Trueman The history of early analytic philosophy (Frege, Wittgenstein and Ramsey).
- Mr Andrew Ward (Honorary Life Fellow) Hume and Kant.
- Professor Catherine Wilson Descartes, Leibniz and Kant.
PG Researchers
- Thomas Dowling (twd510@york.ac.uk)
An historical review and reconstruction of 'reification' (supervisors: Dr James Clarke and Dr Owen Hulatt) - Denise Goh (denise.goh@york.ac.uk)
Post-truth as a Struggle for Recognition: a critical analysis of ideology, identity, and institutions in knowledge preservation (supervisors: Dr James Clarke and Dr Owen Hulatt)