In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), the Philosophy department at Sussex was one of only 9 Philosophy departments in the country to have 100% of the research we submitted judged as internationally recognised or better; meanwhile, 60% was judged as world-leading or internationally excellent.
For many in the Philosophy department 2008 was our first RAE submission, and we expect to produce even better work in time for the next assessment.
The Philosophy faculty includes experts on Aristotle, Blanchot, Burge, Davidson, Fichte, Frege, Habermas, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Kripke, Lewis, Levinas, Marcuse, Marx, Nietzsche, Plato, Rousseau, Quine, Schiller, Spinoza and Wittgenstein. We work on issues such as: descriptions; semantic externalism; forgiveness; causation; retributive and restorative justice; the relationship between language and the world; the imagination; the nature of knowledge; metaphor; identity; counterpart theory; immanent criticism; the ontology of the musical work; externalism in action ethics; fictional objects; definitions of art; normativity; and constructivism.