Philosophy staff

Luca works at the interface of philosophy and cognitive science and he is particularly interested in affective, social, and moral cognition.

Chris' research interests include theories of punishment and alternatives to punishment, criminal law and criminal justice, emotions and expressive action and normative powers.

Megan's research concerns global justice and the environment, focusing on the political philosophy of climate change.

James works primarily in ethics and meta-ethics, but he also has research interests in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Dr Byerly's primary research interest is in Philosophy of Religion, Virtue Ethics, and Epistemology.

Jim works at the intersection of Hume studies, moral psychology, and metaethics.

Niall is interested at the moment in varieties of fictionalism and in passing off controversial alleged entities as bare particulars.

Ben is primarily interested in the ethics and politics of healthcare.

Some of Paul's research interests include epistemology, testimony, trust, second-personal attitudes and emotions.

Interests are in political and social philosophy, American Pragmatism, and philosophy of education. Current project: participatory democracy, youth politics and civic education in higher education

Dominic's research interests include philosophical questions concerning modality, the imagination, fiction, plus pictures and other forms of imagistic representation.

Max's research interests include normative ethics, metaethics and moral psychology. He is also interested in the history of Philosophy, including British Empiricists and the American Pragmatists.

Angie's research interests include ancient Greek philosophy and ethics (ancient and modern), notably the ethics of flourishing and virtue; heroism, courage and fame; love and desire; friendship.

Jules' research interests include political philosophy, moral psychology and social philosophy (in particular, feminist philosophy and philosophy of race).

Rosanna's main philosophical interests lie within the philosophy of logic and language and metaphysics.

Stephen's research interests include the philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science.

Some of Jimmy's research interests include moral realism, moral expressivism, moral psychology and moral epistemology.

Eric's research interests include personal identity, material objects, time, and death.

Komarine's research interests include agency, action and our conscious control.

Henry is currently working on a project about rational changes in preference (and other non-doxastic attitudes) funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

Yonatan's research interests include the philosophy of action, the philosophy of practical reason and the contribution of these two fields to Ethics and to the theory of normativity in general.

Contemporary unbelief, faith, and multireligiosity, especially ethnography and lived religion, Feminist and Queer approaches in religious studies.

Jerry's research interests lie at the intersection between philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and related fields. The main focus of his research concerns temporal perception and cognition.