Research degrees
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Theoretical Philosophy
People
Staff
- Professor Keith Allen Colour, the philosophy of perception and meta-philosophy.
- Emeritus Professor Greg Currie Art and cognitive science, the imagination and its place in the architecture of mind and philosophy of literature.
- Honorary Visiting Professor Dorothea Debus (University of Konstanz) Memory, imagination, attention, perception and the emotions
- Dr Stephen Everson Philosophy of mind, metaphysics and the philosophy of language.
- Honorary Visiting Professor Kathleen Higgins (Austin, Texas) Philosophy of grief, philosophy of music, Nietzsche, aesthetics
- Dr Owen Hulatt Jewish philosophy, analytic and continental approaches to aesthetics.
- Dr David Ingram Metaphysics, and philosophy of time.
- Dr Christopher Jay Religious fictionalism, Kant's philosophy of religion and moral philosophy.
- Honorary Visiting Professor James Ladyman(University of Bristol) Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of information, philosophy of mathematics.
- Emeritus Professor Peter Lamarque Philosophy of literature especially, interpretation, literature and truth. Art ontology, poetry, narrative and the self.
- Dr Mary Leng Philosophy of mathematics and science and meta-metaphysics.
- Dr Daniel Morgan Philosophy of mind and moral psychology.
- Professor Paul Noordhof Consciousness, representation, imagination, self-deception and belief and mental causation.
- Dr Christian Piller Epistemology.
- Honorary Visiting Professor Jennifer Radden(University of Massachusetts Amherst, Boston) Philosophy of psychiatry; emotions
- Professor Matthew Ratcliffe Phenomenology, philosophy of psychiatry, social cognition, emotions and feelings. Perception and religious experience.
- Dr Louise Richardson The philosophy of perception and the senses.
- Dr Fiora Salis Nature and varieties of imagination.
- Professor Tom Stoneham
The phenomenal characters of perceiving and pseudo-perceiving, self knowledge and temperal externalism. - Honorary Visiting Professor Eleonore Stump (St Louis University)
Philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics and medieval philosophy.
- Dr Mike Stuart
Philosophy of scientific methods, artificial intelligence, scientific imagination, aesthetics of science, empirical methods in philosophy
- Dr Rob Trueman Philosophical logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics.
- Andrew Ward (Honorary Life Fellow) Personal identity.
- Dr David Worsley Philosophy of religion and analytic theology; moral character and virtue.
PG Researchers
- Jake Dorothy (jake.dorothy@york.ac.uk)
A Phenomenological Analysis of Self in Complex Trauma (supervisor: Professor Matthew Ratcliffe) - James Dyer (james.dyer@york.ac.uk)
Understanding Gender Identity (supervisor: Professor Mary Leng) - Siying Jiao (sj1494@york.ac.uk)
Olfaction, Gustation and Aesthetics (supervisor: Dr Louise Richardson) - Nasir Khan (nasir.khan@york.ac.uk)
Deflationary Neutral Monism: one order of existence and power (supervisor: Professor Paul Noordhof) - Jacob O'Sullivan (jacob.osullivan@york.ac.uk)
Should we accept the existence of mathematical objects? An evaluation of mathematical fictionalist attempts to remove ontological commitment to mathematical entities. (supervisor: Professor Mary Leng) - Heather Perfect (heather.perfect@york.ac.uk)
Omnisubjectivity: Can God know exactly what it is like to be me? /Can a successful account of how God gains knowledge of individual subjective experience be provided? - Daryl Tyrer (daryl.tyrer@york.ac.uk)
Can the evolutionary naturalist account for realism in metaphysics and science? (supervisors: Professor Mary Leng and Professor Tom Stoneham) - Jane Wilson (jejw501@york.ac.uk)
A theory of forgiveness (supervisors: Professor Christian Piller and Dr Martin O'Neill) - Sarah Wood (sarah.wood2@york.ac.uk)
What it is like to have Dementia: A Phenomenological Study (supervisor: Professor Matthew Ratcliffe)