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James Andow
Philosophical Methods; Experimental Philosophy; Environmental Philosophy.My research focuses on philosophical methods. I ask questions about the place of intuitions and empirical research in philosophy. My research also touches on issues in environmental philosophy, epistemology, ethics, free will and moral responsibility, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and aesthetics.more... -
John Collins
Philosophy of language; philosophy of linguistics; philosophy of mind.My research focuses on language as a cognitive capacity and how meaning is determined as an interaction between a uniform syntax and contextual factors. This involves both high-level theoretical work about the nature of language and mind as well as detailed analysis of particular kinds of construction. My recent work has focused on fiction, quantification, weather reports ('It's raining'), and copredication.more...
I also have a keen interest in the 17th century, Kant, early analytical philosophy, the concept of truth, and the philosophies of science and mathematics. I am currently writing a monograph about the nature of the formal variable in logic and language. I am happy to supervise in any of these areas. -
Eugen Fischer
Experimental philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of philosophy, methodology of (experimental) philosophy; Wittgenstein, JL Austin and ordinary language philosophy.I combine experimental and theoretical work. The experimental work studies cognitive sources of philosophical problems. The project ‘Experimental argument analysis: Reasoning with stereotypes’ examines how stereotypes and comprehension biases influence verbal reasoning. Another project examines folk theories, belief fragmentation, and conflicts between folk beliefs. The studies use methods from psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. These include eye tracking, corpus methods, and distributional semantic analysis. My theoretical research explores how empirical findings help ‘dissolve’ philosophical problems. I focus on problems about the nature of perception and consciousness. I am also interested in consequences for ‘conceptual engineering’ and for the interpretation of philosophical texts. My earlier work explores aims, methods, benefits, and limitations of philosophy as ‘therapy’ and as ‘work on oneself’.more... -
Tom Greaves
Eco-Phenomenology; Environmental Aesthetics; Existential Phenomenology.I am interested in how perceptions of nature form and are informed by imagination, understanding and the limits of understanding. The guiding thought of my work is that environmental ethics and aesthetics need to be grounded in lifeworld experiences of nature. I use the methods of eco-phenomenology and environmental hermeneutics to explore the implications of limit experiences of nature, focusing on contemporary forms of sublimity and ephemerality. I have broad interests in the environmental humanities, and I am the editor of the interdisciplinary journal Environmental Values.more...
I also have wider research interests in existential phenomenology (especially Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty); critical theory; the philosophy of R. G. Collingwood; philosophy as a way of life and self-cultivation philosophies; and comparative philosophies (especially classical Greek, Roman and Daoist philosophy). I am happy to supervise projects on any of these or related topics. -
Oskari Kuusela
Philosophical methodology; History of analytic philosophy including Wittgenstein; Ethics; Philosophy of language and logic.A central focus for my research is the methodology of philosophy, and connected with that philosophy of logic and language. I also work on ethics and metaethics, and the history of analytic philosophy, especially Wittgenstein which I’m mostly known for. A new emerging research area for me is metaphysics where I argue for a logic based ontologically light approach that has its roots in my work on philosophical methodology.more... -
Davide Rizza
Philosophy of mathematics; Philosophy of science; Dewey; History of logic.In my research I investigate the construction and development of mathematical methods as problem-solving instruments arising within scientific practice. I carry out this work with a special reference to the mathematisation of social science, in particular utility theory, measurement theory, and voting theory, but I also find it helpful to examine the genesis and growth of applications of mathematics usually neglected by philosophers (e.g. to operations research or genetics).more...
I am also interested in American pragmatism, especially the work of John Dewey, and in the history of logic. -
Maria Serban
Ggeneral philosophy of science, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of biology, feminist philosophy.I am a philosopher of science focusing on modelling practices in the life sciences. My research is, for the most part, in the philosophy of cognitive science and neuroscience. In my work I try to think about the broader context of scientific research, specifically the ethical, political and cultural implications of the way in which biological and psychological research is used in multidisciplinary projects as well as in medical practice. A more recent strand in my work is looking into how feminist thinking can shape philosophical debates on objectivity, truth and the scientific method.more... -
Philip Wilson
Translation and Philosophy; Simone Weil.I research the interface between translation and philosophy. I am particularly interested in how translation and mysticism can be made to speak to each other and am currently completing a monograph on the subject, written from a Wittgensteinian perspective. I supervise in translation and philosophy, and in the application of Wittgenstein to the arts, and am interested in applications in these areas, as well as the philosophy and/or literary work of Weil, or any aspects of the philosophy of literature.more...
With Piers Rawling (Florida State University, USA) I have edited The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy, a field-defining work, and have published a monograph on how Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy can be related to translation. I also translate from German, French and Latin, and with Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (Pardubice University, Czech Republic) I have prepared a translation and edition of Simone Weil’s play Venice Saved (Routledge 2019).