Philosophy research

Research theme/s:

Environment and ethos of Philosophy research

All of our carry out research. UH Philosophy achieved excellent results in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), with 28% of our research outputs being judged 4* ('world-leading') and a further 42% of it judged 3* ('internationally excellent'). All staff in Philosophy were submitted for this exercise.

Our research strengths include Philosophy of Mind & Action, Metaphysics (esp. Philosophy of Time), Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Perception, Aesthetics (esp. Philosophy of Literature), Moral Philosophy (inc. Moral Psychology), Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Methodology, Kierkegaard, Hume, Lakatos, and Wittgenstein.

We offer Masters by Research and PhD degrees on a broad range of areas of supervision topics in any of the above fields. Recent doctoral theses in Philosophy completed at UH include Zuzanna Rucinska’s , Colin Rittberg’s , Istvan Zardai’s , Neil O'Hara's 'Basic Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality' (2017) and Katja Behrens’ .

Three of our Philosophy staff have recently been awarded Major Research Fellowships: Professor John Lippitt’s for his project (2018-2020), on (2019-2021) and Dr Michelle Liu won an early career fellowship on The abundance of meaning: polysemy and its applications in philosophy (2021-23). wss awarded a 6-month Research Fellowship by the Mind Association, for a project on truth in fiction (2019-2020).

We hold a fortnightly Research Seminar with visiting speakers and have organised major international conferences. Most recently we hosted the European Society for Philosophy & Psychology (ESPP 2017) Conference and in 2021 hosted the of the Aristotelian Society & Mind Association. The 91였튬 is also home to the British Wittgenstein Society. In 2019 our annual Francis Bacon Lecture for the general public was given by Prof Hans-Johann Glock, on .

Get in touch

For more information about our Philosophy research, please contact Dr Craig Caddick-Bourne, Research Leader.

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