The department’s philosophical expertise covers a broad range of contemporary practical and theoretical philosophy as well as much of the history of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics and ancient Chinese philosophy through to present day Analytic and Continental traditions.
The department’s research activity is divided into the following five research clusters, each (very approximately!) associated with a range of subdisciplines as follows.
Formal Methods: Logic, Epistemology
History of Philosophy: Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, and Kant, Continental
Metaphysical Foundations of the Sciences: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics
Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy: Politics, Ethics
Rationality, Action, and Mind: Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, and Action, Language, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion
Our research clusters meet weekly or fortnightly during term-time to host a visiting speaker, discuss a work in progress paper, or read recent work relevant work. If you’d like to inquire about research supervision or know more about anyone’s work and specific expertise, please click through to individual profiles. If you’re interested in cluster activities, please click above, which will either take you to a staff member’s email address or the relevant website. The below list only includes current academic faculty; all associated and emeritus members of the department are here.
List of Department of Philosophy staff by research interest
Aesthetics
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Ancient
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Continental Philosophy
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Professor Clare Carlisle
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Professor Sacha Golob
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Dr Rachel Cristy
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Professor Peter Adamson
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Dr Joachim Aufderheide
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Dr Lea Cantor
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Dr Shaul Tor
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Dr Zita Toth
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Professor Clare Carlisle
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Dr Rachel Cristy
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Professor Sacha Golob
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Ethics
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Epistemology
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Language
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Professor Maria Alvarez
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Dr Joachim Aufderheide
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Professor Clare Carlisle
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Dr Julien Dutant
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Dr Jessica Fischer
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Dr Michael Garnett
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Professor Elselijn Kingma
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Dr Matteo Mameli
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Dr Lucy McDonald
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Professor Eliot Michaelson
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Professor Andrea Sangiovanni
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Professor Bill Brewer
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Dr Julien Dutant
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Alex Grzankowski
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Professor David Papineau
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Dr Henry Schiller
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Logic (including
Philosophical Logic)
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Medieval, Early Modern,
and Kant (including post-Kant)
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Metaphysics
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Dr Julien Dutant
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Dr Jessica Leech
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Dr Carlo Nicolai
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Professor Mark Textor
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Professor Maria Alvarez
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Dr John Callanan
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Professor Clare Carlisle
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Dr Rachel Cristy
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Professor Sacha Golob
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Dr Stephen Harrop
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Professor Mark Textor
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Dr Zita Toth
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Dr Jessica Leech
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Dr Jasper Reid
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Philosophy of Mind,
Psychology, and Action
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Philosophy of Science
(including Philosophy of Physics
and Mathematics)
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Philosophy of Religion
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Professor Clare Carlisle
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Dr Stephen Harrop
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Dr Zita Toth
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Politics
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