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	Professor Alexander Bird
Post(s):	Professor, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise:	My work concerns metaphysics and the theory of knowledge as applied to science. It thus concerns the laws of nature, physical...
Keywords:	metaphysics \| laws of nature \| scientific progress \| scientific knowledge \| scientific revolutions

	Dr Anthony Everett
Post(s):	Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise:	I have a broad range of research interests within the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophical...
Keywords:	philosophy of language \| philosophy of mind \| metaphysics \| logic \| aesthetics \| Millianism \| empty names \| semantic paradoxes

	Professor Leon Horsten
Post(s):	Professor, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise:	My research is concentrated chiefly on bringing formal methods to bear on philosophical problems. Formal methods are meant...
Keywords:	formal methods \| graph theory \| probability theory \| complexity theory \| epistemology \| metaphysics \| philosophy of language \| philosophy of science

	Professor James Ladyman
Post(s):	Professor, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise:	My background is in mathematics and theoretical physics, mathematical logic and philosophy. My main area of expertise is...
Keywords:	philosophy \| philosophy of science \| philosophy of physics \| metaphysics \| philosophy of mathematics \| science and religion \| epistemology \| philosophical logic

	Dr Giles Pearson
Post(s):	Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise:	I work on ancient philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), metaethics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. My published...
Keywords:	ancient philosophy \| metaethics \| philosophical psychology \| Aristotle \| ethics \| aesthetics \| metaphysics \| desire

	Dr Andrew Pyle
Post(s):	Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy
Areas of expertise:	I have a very wide range of philosophical interests, but my research is concentrated in two central areas. One is the History...
Keywords:	philosophy of science \| scientific revolutions \| metaphysics \| epistemology \| Malebranche