We are interested in hearing from students wishing to undertake postgraduate level work in Philosophy at the MLitt or doctoral level. Please contact one of the supervisors below if you are thinking about applying for a PhD in their subject area.
Professor Michael Beaney : Supervision is offered in the history of analytic philosophy, particularly the thought of Frege, Wittgenstein, Stebbing, and Collingwood. He also has interests in creativity, historiography, and Chinese philosophy of language and logic.
Professor Vikki Entwistle : Supervision is offered in ethics, philosophy of medicine and interdisciplinary projects in philosophy and public health. Professor Entwhistle is an interdisciplinary scholar combining philosophy with social research to understand and address challenges in public health and healthcare provision in relation to human well being and social justice.
Dr Gerry Hough : Supervision is offered in philosophy of language, including opaque contexts, substitutivity, and the semantics of belief reports.
Professor Jesper Kallestrup : Supervision is offered in epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophical methodology. Recent research interests include topics in social epistemology such as testimony, trust and group knowledge, and the metaphysics of mind and knowledge such as extended knowledge and cognitive integration.
Professor Beth Lord : Supervision is offered in History of Philosophy. Dr Lord's research focuses on Spinoza and Kant, with particular emphasis on themes in Spinoza's metaphysics and political philosophy. Supervision is also offered in subjects relating to 18th-21st century continental philosophy, including continental interpretations of historical texts and interdisciplinary projects.
Dr Federico Luzzi : Supervision is offered in epistemology broadly construed--with particular emphasis on knowledge from non-knowledge--epistemic injustice, and gender equality in sports.
Dr Luca Moretti : Supervision is offered in epistemology, including the epistemology of perception broadly construed (basic knowledge, disjunctivism, immediate justification, cognitive penetrability, hinge epistemology), the epistemology of inference (transmission and failure of transmission of justification, closure and counter-closure), the epistemology of testimony, the epistemology of education, and Bayesian epistemology and its application to scepticism.
Dr Ulrich Stegmann : Supervision is offered in general philosophy of science (e.g. models, visual representations, causation, explanation, experimentation) and the history and philosophy of the life sciences (including neuroscience and biomedicine).
Dr Paula Sweeney : Supervision is offered in philosophy of language, including relativism, contextualism, vagueness, and their connections with indexicality.
Dr Stephan Torre : Supervision is offered in the metaphysics of time, tense, self-locating content, modality, and persistence through time.
