Research

Many of our teaching staff are internationally renowned scholars and researchers who are leaders in their fields.

• Professor John Bishop
  Philosophy of religion, philosophy of action.
• Associate Professor Gillian Brock
  Political philosophy, ethics, applied ethics.
• Associate Professor Jan Crosthwaite
  Bioethics.
• Associate Professor Tim Dare
  Philosophy of law, applied and professional ethics.
• Professor Stephen Davies
  Philosophy of the arts, political philosophy.
• Dr Patrick Girard
  Logic, modal logic, dynamic epistemic, doxastic and preference logic.
• Associate Professor Rod Girle
  Logic, artificial intelligence, belief revision and dialogue logics.
• Professor Rosalind Hursthouse
  Theoretical and applied ethics, Aristotle and Hume.
• Dr Vanya Kovach
  Applied and professional ethics, philosophy for children.
• Associate Professor Fred Kroon
  Logic, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology.
• Associate Professor Chris Martin
  Mediaeval and Greek philosophy, especially the history and philosophy of logic.
• Dr Jonathan McKeown-Green
  Philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of logic, philosophy of music and moral responsibility.
• Dr Timothy Mulgan
  Moral theory, political philosophy
• Professor Robert Nola
  Philosophy of science; metaphysics, including naturalism; epistemology; selected areas in social and historical studies of science; atheism; science and religion.
• Dr Glen Pettigrove
  Ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion.
• Dr Denis Robinson
  Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, identity.
• Dr Russell Matheson
  Phenomenology, critical theory, theories of intersubjectivity.
• Dr Jeremy Seligman
  Logic, philosophy of computation, classical Chinese philosophy.
• Murry Sheard
  Environmental ethics, business ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion.
• Dr Christine Swanton
  Ethics, especially virtue ethics.
• Dr Koji Tanaka
  Logic, philosophy of logic, Buddhist philosophy, classical Chinese philosophy.
• Dr Chris Tucker
  Epistemology, philosophy of religion, ethics.
• Associate Professor Robert Wicks
  Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant, history of aesthetics, existentialism, Buddhism.