Research degrees
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Practical Philosophy
People
Staff
- Emeritus Professor Tom Baldwin Bioethics, moral psychology and moral theory.
- Dr Chris Belshaw (Honorary Fellow) Applied ethics, including questions of the value of death and the nature of a person.
- Dr Jamie Buckland Practical reasoning and value theory.
- Dr Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott Social & political philosophy, moral philosophy, feminist philosophy.
- Dr James Clarke Post Kantian practical philosophy, especially that of Erhard, Fichte and Hegel. Rousseau’s moral psychology and political philosophy and philosophy of law.
- Dr Stephen Holland Applied ethics, especially bioethics and public health ethics.
- Dr Christopher Jay Metaethics, normative ethics, the demandingness of morality and Kantian ethics.
- Professor Mary Leng Metaethics, particularly analogies between debates in philosophy of mathematics and metaethics.
- Dr Daniel Morgan Moral psychology.
- Dr Martin O'Neill Social justice, equality and inequality, freedom, autonomy and responsibility and political economy.
- Professor Christian Piller Normative ethics, value theory, normativity, decision theory and social choice, population ethics, value of knowledge.
- Professor Alan Thomas Moral psychology, moral particularism, metaethics, political philosophy and political economy.
PG Researchers
- Rebecca Davis (rebecca.davis@york.ac.uk)
Thick concepts and reasons for action (supervisors: Professor Mary Leng and Dr Stephen Everson)
- Isobel Standen (isobel.standen@york.ac.uk)
Defeasible Reasoning for Resilient Autonomous Systems (supervisors: Professor Alan Thomas and Professor Radu Calinescu)