South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP)

Consortium for

Arts and Humanities Research Council funding

of postgraduate research students

Academic staff in Philosophy and their research specialisms

Note: This a general list: there is no guarantee that everyone listed will be available for supervision in 2017. It is best to check with individuals themselves, with departments, or with a member of the subject Panel.

SWW DTP Philosophy Subject Panel members

Chris Janaway (Southampton)
(Panel Chair)
Richard Pettigrew (Bristol)
Alessandra Tanesi (Cardiff)
Christine Hauskeller (Exeter)
Brad Hooker (Reading)
Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth) /





Aberystwyth Staff in Philosophy (International Politics)

Richard Beardsworth / ethics, global ethics, responsibility, cosmopolitanism
Inanna Hamati-Ataya / epistemology, sociology of epistemology, knowledge
Milja Kurki / Philosophy of science, philosophy and critical theory, posthumanism, new materialism
Mustapha Pasha / non-western epistemology, nihilism, postcolonialism, islam
Jenny Edkins / poststructualist philosophy, memory, trauma
Kamila Stullerova / political philosophy, political theory, environment and political philosophy
Andrew Davenport / Marx, Marxist philosophy, critical theory, political theory
Patrick Finney / philosophy of history, political philosophy, memory and history

Bristol (Philosophy)

Tudor Baetu / philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of biology
Chris Bertram / Political philosophy, political theory, global justice, ethics of immigration
Alexander Bird / Philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, metaphysics of science, epistemology
Joanna Burch-Brown / Ethics, environmental ethics
Catrin Campbell-Moore / logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of probability, formal epistemology
Havi Carel / Phenomenology, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of film
Anthony Everett / Philosophy of language, aesthetics
Anya Farennikova / Philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science
Kentaro Fujimoto / Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical logic
Leon Horsten / Philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic, theories of truth
James Ladyman / Philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics
Seiriol Morgan / Kant, Heidegger, political philosophy
Samir Okasha / Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, epistemology
Giles Pearson / Ancient philosophy, Aristotle, aesthetics
Richard Pettigrew / Philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, formal epistemology
Andrew Pyle / History of philosophy, early modern philosophy, philosophy of science
Finn Spicer / Philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology
Karim Thébault / Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of economics

Cardiff (Philosophy)

Andrew Edgar / Medical ethics; philosophy of sport; the philosophies of Oakeshott and Collingwood; critical theory of the Frankfurt school; the sociology of music.
Richard Gray / Philosophy of perception with particular interest in the individuation of the senses and unusual senses; philosophy of mind; philosophy of language.
Elizabeth Irvine / Philosophy of psychology and neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology
Simon Robertson / Ethics (meta-ethics, practical reason, normative ethics, moral psychology, value theory); Nietzsche; philosophy of normativity; philosophy of risk
Peter R. Sedgwick / Nietzsche, Deleuze and Oakeshott; post-structuralist and postmodern thought; critical theory and literary theory; the Frankfurt school; political philosophy; history of ideas.
Nicholas Shackel / Rationality; meta-ethics; ethics of Belief; paradox
Alessandra Tanesini / Epistemology, especially virtue epistemology; feminist philosophy; philosophy of mind and language; Wittgenstein; Nietzsche.
Jonathan Webber / Moral psychology; Existentialism; virtue ethics; Kantian ethics; applied ethics.
Huw Williams / political philosophy; international political theory; the history of ideas in Wales; Rawls.

Exeter (Philosophy)

Giovanna Colombetti / Philosophy of cognitive and affective science; philosophy of emotion; phenomenology; embodied and situated cognition.
John Dupre / Philosophy of science, especially biology.
Robin Durie / Political philosophy; Bergson; Deleuze.
Christine Hauskeller / Philosophy of the life sciences; philosophy of biomedicine; critical theory; the Frankfurt School; feminist philosophy; social philosophy; bioethics, science and technology studies.
Michael Hauskeller / Posthumanism; human enhancement; meta-ethics; ethics; applied ethics.
Joel Krueger / Phenomenology and cognitive science (embodied cognition, emotions, social cognition, psychopathology); comparative philosophy; philosophy of music.
Robert Lamb / Political philosophy; philosophy of history.
Sabina Leonelli / Philosophy of science; pragmatism; philosophy of data-intensive science, bioinformatics, model organism research, translational research and Open Science.
Staffan Mueller-Wille / History and philosophy of the life sciences (with a focus on heredity and race and kinship); epistemology.
Lenny Moss / Philosophy of biology; continental philosophy.
Nigel Pleasants / Applied ethics (death, killing, slavery and abolition, genocide, the Holocaust, animals); social philosophy (ontology, epistemology, moral change); philosophy of the social sciences; Wittgenstein.
Tom Roberts / Philosophy of mind; philosophy of psychology and cognitive science; especially embodied; extended and situated cognition and emotion
Astrid Schrader / Science and technology studies, new materialisms, feminist epistemology; poststructuralist theory, Derrida, Heidegger, posthumanism and animal studies; environmental philosophy.
Edward Skidelsky / Ernst Cassirer; philosophy of art (as a social practice); virtue ethics; ethics and economics.
Adam Toon / Philosophy of science (with a focus on scientific modelling and the role of material culture in scientific reasoning).

Reading (Philosophy)

Emma Borg / Philosophy of Language, philosophy of mind and Cognitive Science
Max de Gaynesford / Philosophy of mind and language; philosophy of logic; epistemology; history of 20th century philosophy (Heidegger; Wittgenstein; Putnam; McDowell); poetry; film.
Luke Elson / Meta-ethics, moral philosophy, vagueness
Nat Hansen / Philosophy of language, contextualism in epistemology, semantics and pragmatics, the philosophy of J.L. Austin and ordinary language philosophy.
Brad Hooker / Normative ethics, especially consequentialism and fairness
David Oderberg / Metaphysics, Aristotle, Aquinas, ethics, philosophy of religion
John Preston / Philosophy of science (natural, social and cognitive), Wittgenstein, cognitive science, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.
Severin Schroeder / Wittgenstein, Aesthetics, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language.
James Stazicker / Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, epistemology and metaphysics.
Philip Stratton-Lake / Meta-ethics, especially moral epistemology and buck-passing, normative ethics, especially intuitionism.
Reading (Politics)

Alan Cromartie / History of Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of History
Brian Feltham / practical reason, value theory, contractualism, partiality and impartiality, political legitimacy, consensus, Rawls, feminism
Robert Jubb / methods in political philosophy, egalitarianism, responsibility, particularly for structural injustice
Catriona McKinnon / Climate justice, toleration, freedom of expression, liberalism, contemporary political philosophy
Patrick Tomlin / Distributive justice, fairness, aggregation, children, punishment, Just War Theory, moral uncertainty

Southampton (Philosophy)

Giulia Felappi / Philosophy of language, philosophical logic, early analytic philosophy.
Alex Gregory / Meta-ethics, moral psychology, normative ethics, disability
Christopher Janaway / Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, aesthetics, ancient philosophy
Elselijn Kingma / Philosophy of medicine, philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, bioethics, feminist philosophy
Brian McElwee / Normative ethics, applied ethics, J. S. Mill
Conor McHugh / Epistemology, philosophy of mind, value theory, philosophy of action
Denis McManus / Wittgenstein, Heidegger, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language
Will McNeil / Epistemology, philosophy of perception, problems of other minds, philosophy of psychology
Ray Monk / Wittgenstein, early analytic philosophy, philosophy of biography
Sasha Mudd / Kant, history of modern philosophy, ethics, philosophy of history
Alex Neill / Aesthetics, history of aesthetics
Aaron Ridley / Aesthetics, philosophy of music, Nietzsche
Genia Schönbaumsfeld / Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion
Kurt Sylvan / Epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind
Naomi Thompson / Metaphysics, philosophy of fiction, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science
Lee Walters / Metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of logic and language
Jonathan Way / Meta-ethics, practical reason, epistemology, action theory
Daniel Whiting / Epistemology, philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind
Fiona Woollard / Normative ethics, applied ethics, philosophy of sex, pregnancy and motherhood

Southampton (Politics)

Chris Armstrong / Political philosophy, especially equality and justice (social and global).
Russell Bentley / History of political thought, especially Plato and Aristotle; political philosophy
Jonathan Havercroft / international political theory; history of political thought, especially 17th century; Wittgenstein.
David Owen / Critical theory; Nietzsche; political philosophy, especially citizenship, democracy, and migration.
Ben Saunders / Applied ethics; J. S. Mill; normative ethics; political philosophy, especially democracy and justice
Tracy Strong / Aesthetics; history of political thought; Hobbes; Nietzsche; political philosophy, especially citizenship; Rousseau.

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