Staff research specialisms
Our team work across a wide range of specialisations. Their "More about..." links give more details of their research expertise and contact details.
Stephen Barker
Particular interests
- Philosophy of Language and Logic
- Expressivism
- Metasemantics
- Paradoxes
- Time/persistence/time and physics
- Powers ontology/causation
- Holistic/relationalist ontology
- Metametaphysics
- Buddhist Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Psychology
Broader interests
Metaethics; Philosophy of Language; Eastern Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind and Psychology
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Koshka Duff
Particular interests
- Social Philosophy
- Race, gender, class, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity
- Political Philosophy
- Policing, criminal punishment, incarceration
- Borders, militarism
- Surveillance, protest, dissent, resistance
- Penal abolition
- Democracy
- Education
- Feminist Philosophy
- Critical theory
- History of Political Thought
- Autonomia/operaismo
- Situationism
- Republicanism
- Anarchism
- Anti-imperialist and de-colonial theory and black radical traditions
Broader interests
German-language philosophical traditions; aesthetics (esp. philosophy of music and poetry); radical psychiatry and anti-psychiatry
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Matthew Duncombe
Particular interests
- Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Ontology
- Logic
- Epistemology
- Dialectic
- Plato
- Hellenistic Philosophy
- Stoicism
- Scepticism
- Socratic schools
Broader interests
History of Philosophy; History of Analytic Philosophy; Aristotle; Applied Philosophy; Metaphysics; Ontology; Philosophical Logic; Virtual reality and philosophy; Interdisciplinary projects (especially with classics, humanities, social sciences, computer science)
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Andrew Fisher
Particular interests
- Moral realism
- Open question arguments
- Error-theory
- Moral psychology
- Internalism vs externalism
- Theories of motivation
- Faith schools and indoctrination
- Nature of teaching
Broader interests
Metaethics; Analytic Philosophy of Education; Pedagogy; Philosophy with Children (P4C); Technology and Teaching
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Craig French
Particular interests
- Perception
- Philosophy of Mental Health
Broader interests
Philosophy of Mind and Psychology; Epistemology (especially perceptual knowledge, ways of knowing, perceptual justification)
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Philip Goodchild
Particular interests
- Religious metaphysics
- Philosophical critiques of capitalism
- Key figures in continental philosophy such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Bergson, Weil, Heidegger, Deleuze
Broader interests
Philosophy of Religion; Continental Philosophy
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Michael Hannon
Particular interests
- Analytic epistemology
- Knowledge
- Justification
- Skepticism
- Disagreement
- Testimony
- Political epistemology
- Fake news
- Echo chambers
- Epistemic democracy
- Political ignorance
- Rationality
Broader interests
Epistemology; Metaethics; Political Philosophy
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Zachary Hoskins
Particular interests
- Philosophy of criminal law
- Punishment theory
- Collateral consequences of a conviction
- Criminalisation
- Political obligation
Broader interests
Legal Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Moral Philosophy
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Mark Jago
Particular interests
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- Truth
- Truthmaking
- Paradoxes
- Possible/impossible worlds
- Formal logic
- Formal epistemology
- Metaphysics (of objects/properties)
- Grounding
- Indexicals
- Meaning
- Content in Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language
Broader interests
Philosophy of Language; Metaphysics of Mind; History of Analytic Philosophy; Frege; Russell; Wittgenstein
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Lina Jansson
Particular interests
- Scientific explanation
- Scientific laws (Laws of Nature)
- Non-empirical criteria for theory choice (simplicity, unification, etc.)
- Theory confirmation and selection
Broader interests
Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Physics; Metaphysics
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Ian James Kidd
Particular interests
- Philosophy of illness
- Virtue and vice epistemology
Broader interests
Virtues and vices; Buddhist Philosophy (especially moral philosophy); Chinese Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Science
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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko
Particular interests
- Philosophy of Recreation
- Social Ontology
Broader interests
Political Philosophy; Moral Philosophy
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Katie Monk
Harold Noonan
Particular interests
- Identity and personal identity
- Naming and necessity
- Frege
- Philosophy of language
- Philosophical logic
- Hume
Broader interests
Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics
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Stefano Predelli
Particular interests
- Formal Semantics
- Theory of conversation
- Pragmatics
Broader interests
Ontology of Art
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Jon Robson
Particular interests
- Aesthetics and meta-aesthetics
- Videogames
- Philosophy of Religion
Broader interests
Epistemology; Metaphysics
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Benedict Rumbold
Particular interests
- Normative Ethics
- Contractualism
- Consequentialism
- Aggregation
- Universalizability
- Fairness
- Egalitarianism
- Prioritarianism
- Moral status (animals)
- Particularism
- Scanlon
- Parfit
- Rawls
- Kant
Broader interests
Moral Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Early modern Philosophy; Applied Moral and Political Philosophy
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Neil Sinclair
Particular interests
- Metaethics
- Moral semantics
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Psychology( especially anti-realism)
- Aesthetics (especially anti-realism)
- Environmental Ethics
Broader interests
Moral Philosophy; Normative Ethics; Applied Ethics (especially artificial intelligence)
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Jonathan Tallant
Particular interests
- Philosophy of Time
- Trust
- Non-empirical criteria for theory choice (simplicity, unification, etc.)
- Grounding
Broader interests
Metaphysics; Metametaphysics
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Christopher Woodard
Particular interests
- Consequentialism
- Rule- or collective-consequentialism
- Well-being and ill-being
- Utilitarianism
Broader interests
Moral Philosophy; Normative Ethics; Applied Ethics; Political Philosophy
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