Members of the Philosophy department faculty are at the forefront of the research areas in which they teach. The department is one of the few in the UK that has both teaching and research strengths in Anglo-American 'analytic' philosophy, and Modern European or 'continental' philosophy. Listed below are some of the recent awards, prizes and fellowships achieved by members of the Philosophy department, together with links to each individual's personal profile.
Awards and prizes
Andrew Chitty won an AHRC research leave award for 2011, to pursue his research project 'Freedom and Sociality in the work of Karl Marx'.
Lucy Allais won a Humbolt Fellowship for 2011, to develop a project on Kant's Transcendental Idealism.
Kathleen Stock was awarded an AHRC research leave award in 2009-10 to pursue her project 'The nature of imaginative engagement with fiction'.
Murali Ramachandran won a Mind Association Fellowship for Autumn term 2009.
Jonardon Ganeri has recently completed 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 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 July 2009.
See a full list of the Philosophy Department's faculty research interests