WELCOME TO PHILOSOPHY AT SUSSEX
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AHRC Doctoral and Masters Studentships in Philosophy or Social & Political Thought for entry in 2010.
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Why philosophy at Sussex?
After a Philosophy degree from Sussex
Undergraduate programmes
Postgraduate programmes
Philosophy Society
Sussex Undergraduate Philosophy Society (SUPSOC)
2009 National Student Survey results
Philosophy at Sussex came 3rd in the country, and 1st in the Russell and 1994 Groups (which include Oxford and Cambridge). For more information, see here.
2008 RAE results
Philosophy at Sussex was one of only 9 Philosophy departments in the UK to have 100% of its research activity rated as being world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised. For more information, see here.
Recent research achievements by Philosophy department members
Kathleen Stock has been awarded AHRC research leave for 2009-10 to pursue her project 'The nature of imaginative engagement with fiction'.
Murali Ramachandran has won a Mind Association Fellowship for Autumn term 2009.
Jonardon Ganeri is engaged in a major AHRC Research Project Grant (with Professor Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi of Lancaster) to investigate Indian conceptions of the self and responses to the no-self theory of the Indian Buddhists.
Tanja Staehler has just completed a Humboldt Fellowship to develop her project, 'Plato and Levinas: The Ambiguous Out-Side of Ethics'. Her monograph on the subject was published by Routledge in August 2010.
Lucy Allais's paper 'Kant's Idealism and the Secondary Quality Analogy' was awarded the Journal of the History of Philosophy prize for the best article published in 2007.
Michael Morris 's book Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy, 2007) was designated a Choice Magazine 2007 "Outstanding Academic Title" by the American Library Association.
The prestigious Journal The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain is edited from the Department of Philosophy, by Katerina Deligiorgi.
The Department of Philosophy is a member of The Institute of Philosophy.
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