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 2016. 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)
C.Janaway@soton.ac.uk
Anya Farennikova (Bristol)
anya.farennikova@bristol.ac.uk
Peter Sedgwick (Cardiff)
Sedgwick@cf.ac.uk
Christine Hauskeller (Exeter)
C.Hauskeller@exeter.ac.uk
Philip Stratton-Lake (Reading)
p.j.stratton-lake@reading.ac.uk
Ayla Gol (Aberystwyth)
ayg@aber.ac.uk
Bristol
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/school-of-arts/people/group/dept/2245
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
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
Cardiff
http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/contactsandpeople/academic/philosophy.html
Andrew Edgar
Medical ethics; philosophy of sport; the philosophies of Oakeshott and
Collingwood; critical theory of the Frankfurt school; the aethetics and
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; 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
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http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/
John Dupre
Philosophy of mind; philosophy of science (theories and experimental
work in affective science); phenomenology of affectivity and the body.
Philosophy of science, especially biology.
Robin Durie
Political philosophy; Bergson; Deleuze.
Christine Hauskeller
Critical Theory; bioethics; feminist Philosophy; philosophy of science
and medicine.
Michael Hauskeller
Posthumanism; human enhancement; meta-ethics; ethics; applied
ethics.
Joel Krueger
Phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science, with a
particular focus on empathy and social cognition.
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
Social philosophy (with a focus on philosophical and social issues
relating to slavery and the holocaust); Wittgenstein; animal ethics.
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).
Giovanna Colombetti
Reading
http://www.reading.ac.uk/philosophy/about/phil-staff.aspx
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
Moral and political philosophy, especially consequentialism, fairness,
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buck-passing, and particularism.
David Oderberg
Metaphysics, Aristotle, Aquinas, ethics, philosophy of religion
David Owens
Moral philosophy, political philosophy, moral psychology, epistemology
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.
Southampton
Philosophy
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/about/staff.page
Alex Gregory
Meta-ethics, moral psychology, normative ethics
Christopher Janaway
Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, aesthetics, ancient philosophy
Elselijn Kingma
Philosophy of medicine, philosophy of biology, general philosophy of
science, bioethics, feminist philosophy
Conor McHugh
Epistemology, philosophy of mind, value theory, philosophy of action
Denis McManus
Wittgenstein, Heidegger, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language
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
Kurt Sylvan
Epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind
Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion
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
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Southampton
Politics
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/about/staff.page
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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