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
Ancient Philosophy
Medieval (including Arabic) Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy (including Kant)
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Philosophy (including history of both Analytic and Continental Philosophy)
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Lecturer in Philosophy
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Professor of Philosophy
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Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind and Psychology (including Theory of Action)
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Senior lecturer in Philosophy (Mind and Psychology)
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Professor of Philosophy
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Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy
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Professor of Philosophy of Science
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Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Philosophy of Language, Logic and Linguistics
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Professor of Philosophy
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Reader in Logic
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Professor of Philosophy
Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
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Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy
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Lecturer in Philosophy
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science
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Professor of Philosophy
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Professor of Philosophy
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Reader in Philosophy
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Reader in Philosophy
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Professor of Philosophy of Science
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
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Professor of Philosophy
Ethics and political philosophy
Philosophy and Medicine
Philosophy of Religion
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Professor of Philosophy
Aesthetics
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Lecturer in Philosophy
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Professor of Philosophy