The Department of Philosophy is home to over 50 members of staff.
Find contact details and explore who does what.
Our people
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Research interests:
- Perception
- Colour
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Experimental Philosophy
Beverley Braithwaite
Administrator, Depts of Philosophy, English & Related Literature, Language & Linguistic Science (PERLLS)
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Research interests:
- Agent-neutrality/relativity in metaethics
- Practical reasoning
- Personal identity
- Buddhism
- Political theory
Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Feminist Philosophy
- Property rights
- Self-Ownership
- Privacy
Giacomo Floris
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests:
- Basic equality
- Moral status
- Relational equality
- Distributive justice
Liz Greensted
Administrator, Depts of Philosophy, English & Related Literature, Language & Linguistic Science (PERLLS)
Stephen Holland
Professor
Research interests:
- Bioethics
- Medical-aid-in-dying
- Death
- Public health ethics
- Paternalism in public health
Owen Hulatt
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Aesthetics (Analytic and non-Analytic)
- History of Philosophy
- Maimonides
- Spinoza
- Adorno
Research interests:
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Time
Research interests:
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Philosophy of Science
- Fictionalism
- Maths and Metaethics
- Sex and Gender
Alessandro Maniscalco
Finance Administrator, Depts of Philosophy, English & Related Literature, Language & Linguistic Science (PERLLS)
- d.morgan@york.ac.uk
- +44 (0)1904 323262
- I/A/016A
Research interests:
- Addiction and compulsion
- Praise- and blame-worthiness
- Temporal thought
- Self-consciousness and self-knowledge
- Free will
Paul Noordhof
Anniversary Professor of Philosophy
Research interests:
- Belief
- Causation
- Consciousness
- Imagination
- Representation
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Martin O'Neill
Professor of Political Philosophy
Research interests:
- Political philosophy
- Economic and social justice
- Political economy
- Public policy
Research interests:
- Happiness and Well-Being
- Theories of Fairness
- Ethical Theory
- Reasons and Rationality
- Selected issues in epistemology (epistemic normativity, epistemic values)
Research interests:
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Psychiatry
- Philosophy of Mind
- Emotions, Feelings, and Moods
- Interpersonal Experience
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Anna Richardson
Student Services Administrator
Research interests:
- Imagination
- Memory
- Knowledge
- Understanding
- Fiction
- Scientific models
- Scientific thought experiments
- Computational creativity
Andzelika Skarupa-McShane
Deputy Student Services Manager
Research interests:
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Nothingness and Possibility
- Perception, Consciousness and Dreaming
- Nightmares and Memory in Trauma
- AI and Data Ethics
- mike.stuart@york.ac.uk
- I/A/108
Research interests:
- Philosophy of scientific methods
- Artificial intelligence
- Scientific imagination
- Aesthetics of science
- Empirical methods in philosophy
Alan Thomas
Professor
Research interests:
- Egalitarianism
- Reasons for Action
- Virtue Ethics
- Political Economy
- Finance
Rob Trueman
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Philosophical logic
- Metaphysics
- History of early analytic philosophy
- Philosophy of language
Research interests:
- Philosophy of religion
- Philosophical theology
- Analytic theology
