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Keith Allen
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Biography

After studying in Cambridge and University College London, I started at York in 2007. My primary research interests include philosophy of perception, colour, early modern philosophy, phenomenology, and x-phi (experimental philosophy). 
 
In a Naïve Realist Theory of Colour (Oxford University Press, 2016) I defend a naïve realist (or ‘primitivist’) theory of colour, according to which colours are mind-independent properties of objects that are distinct from those described by science. My work on colour is part of a wider interest in the philosophy of perception, where I defend a naive realist (or ‘relationalist') theory of perception. 
 
I am interested in related questions in the history of philosophy, particularly in  early modern philosophy and phenomenology, and I collaborate on work that uses empirical methods to investigate both the psychological mechanisms of perception and ordinary beliefs about it.   

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Professor Keith Allen
Head of Department
Department of Philosophy

Tel: 01904 323255