Staff
Teaching and research staff
- Peter Ainsworth (Post-doc) - philosophy of physics, philosophy of science
- Justin Alam - ethics, Kant
- Chris Bertram - political philosophy
- Alexander Bird - philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology
- Anthony Everett - phil. of language and mind, metaphysics, philosophical logic
- Jonathan Grose (Post-doc) - philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind
- Leon Horsten - philosophy of logic, mathematics and language; epistemology and metaphysics
- James Ladyman - philosophy of physics, metaphysics, epistemology
- Alex Malpass - metaphysics and temporal logic, history of logic, philosophy of science, contintental/existentialist philosophy
- Michelle Montague - philosophy of mind, metaphysics
- Seiriol Morgan - ethics, Kant
- Samir Okasha - philosophy of biology, philosophy of science
- Cedric Paternotte (Post-doc) - philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of social science
- Giles Pearson - ancient philosophy, ethics
- Richard Pettigrew - philosophy of mathematics, formal epistemology
- Andrew Pyle - history and philosophy of science, C.17 philosophy
- Finn Spicer - epistemology, philosophy of mind
- Dagmar Wilhelm
Research Associates and Fellows
- Staffan Angere - logic, metaphysics, philosophy of science
- Scott Berman - Greek philosophy, contemporary metaphysics
- Ken Binmore - game theory, evolutionary ethics and political theory
- Michael Bresalier - history of medicine
- Mazviita Chirimuuta - visual perception, philosophy of colour, neuroscience (philosophically and empirically)
- Nivedita Gangopadhyay - consciousness
- Hannes Leitgeb - logic, epistemology, phil. of mathematics, phil. of language, cognitive science
- Øystein Linnebo - philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics
- John Mayberry - mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics
- Stuart Presnell - phil. of science
- Jonathan Webber - ethics, moral psychology
- Carolyn Wilde - phil. of art, Wittgenstein
- Gareth Williams - history of medicine
- Andrew Woodfield - philosophy of mind, philosophy of language
Principal administrative responsibilities
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Head of Subject (research, postgraduate studies, and staff development): James Ladyman
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Head of Education (undergraduate studies): Finn Spicer
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Undergraduate Admissions: Andrew Pyle
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Postgraduate Admissions: Leon Horsten
Administrative staff
A full list of administrative staff and their responsibilities is available on the School of Arts website:
Recent members of staff
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James Doyle - ancient philosophy, mind and action
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Naomi Goulder
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Hannes Leitgeb - now at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
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Emma Tobin - philosophy of science - now at University College London
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Jonathan Webber - ethics, existentialism - now at Cardiff University
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Øystein Linnebo - now at Birkbeck College, University of London
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Andrew Woodfield
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Alison Hills - ethics, Kant - now at St John's College Oxford
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Carolyn Wilde - Wittgenstein, aesthetics - retired Sept 2005; email: carolyn.wilde@bristol.ac.uk
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Jessica Brown - philosophy of mind, epistemology - now at St Andrews University
Visiting Lecturers and Researchers
The University has two lecture endowments which fairly frequently fund series of philosophy lectures. These series are of varying length, usually between five and twelve lectures, and usually involving seminars as well. In recent years we have welcomed:
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Alan Chalmers (Flinders)—2006-7
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Ed Zalta (Stanford)—2006
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Hartry Field (NYU)—2006
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Toby Handfield (Monash)—2005
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Don Ross (Alabama/Cape Town)—2005
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Sungho Choi (Seoul, now Sydney)—2004-5
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Kim Sterelny (ANU/Wellington)—2004