Department of Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy is one of the largest and most distinguished in the country. We have 22 permanent academic staff and 4 research fellows, and teach a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees. We have research strengths in: history of philosophy; philosophy of mind and psychology; philosophy of language and linguistics; metaphysics and philosophy of science; ethics, politics and aesthetics.

The AHRC has allocated King's 4 Doctoral Awards and 4 Master's Awards to start in 2010 for UK and EU graduate students in philosophy. This is over 10% of the total allocated to UK universities and the largest single allocation apart from Oxford. The closing date for King's AHRC applications is 1st February 2010. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact John Callanan.  
 
Zach Abrahams from Cornell is here this year on a Norman Malcolm Fellowship, and Michael Campbell from King's is visiting Singapore and Monash this term on a King's Partnership grant. These are part of our programme of financially supported exchanges, which allows our students to spend time at other universities including Cornell and North Carolina.
 
Professor MM McCabe has been elected President of the British Philosophical Association and Professor David Papineau has been elected President of the Mind Association.
 
Peter Adamson, Rai Gaita, MM McCabe, David Papineau and Thomas Pink have all recently made contributions to the popular 'Philosophy Bites' series of podcasts. See the recent podcasts and broadcasts by members of the Department.
 
The Welcome Trust has made a £1.95 million award for 2009-14 to King's for research in Medical Humanities including Philosophy of Medicine.