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Philosophy Research
|MPhilStud/MPhil/PhD, option of joint PhD with NUS
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- RAE score: 4*-35%, 3*-40%, 2*-20%, 1*-5%.
- Current number of research staff: 21.
- Current number of research students: 60.
- Research income: £3 million in last six years (supporting projects in: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle; The Evolution of the Emotions; Human-Machine Interaction; Perception, Narrative Discourse and Conceptual Art; Towards an Aesthetic Psychology; The Dynamics of Dialogue; A Dynamic Typology of Pronouns).
- Recent publications by staff: Kripke: Names, Necessity, and Identity by Christopher Hughes. • Free Will: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Pink. • Thinking about Consciousness by David Papineau. • Great Medieval Thinkers: Al-Kindi by Peter Adamson. • Unshadowed Thought by Charles Travis.
- Weekly research seminars/reading groups: Weekly research seminar for all research students (first-year and advanced). Weekly student-run reading groups include: Names • Gender and Philosophy • Politicall Philosophy • Wittgenstein • Early Modern Philosophy • Mind • Kant • Ethics • Metaphysics
- Joint PhDs available: Exciting opportunities to gain a joint PhD with the National University of Singapore
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Peter Adamson
Duration
MPhilStud two years FT, three-four years PT. PhD two-three years FT, four-six years PT.
Location
Strand Campus; occasionally LSE, UCL and Birkbeck.
Student destinations
Many of our PhDs go on to academic work in philosophy (see the Placement Record on our website). Others go into teaching, management or the financial or public sector.
Year of entry 2012
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