Staff research specialisms
Our team work across a wide range of specialisations. Their "More about..." links give more details of their research expertise and contact details.
PhD Supervision
We have a great track record of successfully supervising PhD candidates. Explore staff specialisations below and contact relevant people to discuss your research interests.
If you are unsure if we can offer the supervisory support you are looking for contact our postgraduate admissions tutor Zachary Hoskins
You may also be able to build a supervisory team across the eight universities of the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.
Stephen Barker
Particular interests
- Philosophy of Language and Logic
- Expressivism
- Metasemantics
- Paradoxes
- Time/persistence/time and physics
- Powers ontology/causation
- Holistic/relationalist ontology
- Metametaphysics
- Buddhist Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Psychology
Broader interests
Metaethics; Philosophy of Language; Eastern Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind and Psychology
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Koshka Duff
Particular interests
- Social Philosophy
- Race, gender, class, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity
- Political Philosophy
- Policing, criminal punishment, incarceration
- Borders, militarism
- Surveillance, protest, dissent, resistance
- Penal abolition
- Democracy
- Education
- Feminist Philosophy
- Critical theory
- History of Political Thought
- Autonomia/operaismo
- Situationism
- Republicanism
- Anarchism
- Anti-imperialist and de-colonial theory and black radical traditions
Broader interests
German-language philosophical traditions; aesthetics (esp. philosophy of music and poetry); radical psychiatry and anti-psychiatry
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Matthew Duncombe
Particular interests
- Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Ontology
- Logic
- Epistemology
- Dialectic
- Plato
- Hellenistic Philosophy
- Stoicism
- Scepticism
- Socratic schools
Broader interests
History of Philosophy; History of Analytic Philosophy; Aristotle; Applied Philosophy; Metaphysics; Ontology; Philosophical Logic; Virtual reality and philosophy; Interdisciplinary projects (especially with classics, humanities, social sciences, computer science)
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Andrew Fisher
Particular interests
- Moral realism
- Open question arguments
- Error-theory
- Moral psychology
- Internalism vs externalism
- Theories of motivation
- Faith schools and indoctrination
- Nature of teaching
Broader interests
Metaethics; Analytic Philosophy of Education; Pedagogy; Philosophy with Children (P4C); Technology and Teaching
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Craig French
Particular interests
- Perception
- Philosophy of Mental Health
Broader interests
Philosophy of Mind and Psychology; Epistemology (especially perceptual knowledge, ways of knowing, perceptual justification)
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Philip Goodchild
Particular interests
- Religious metaphysics
- Philosophical critiques of capitalism
- Key figures in continental philosophy such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Bergson, Weil, Heidegger, Deleuze
Broader interests
Philosophy of Religion; Continental Philosophy
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Michael Hannon
Particular interests
- Analytic epistemology
- Knowledge
- Justification
- Skepticism
- Disagreement
- Testimony
- Political epistemology
- Fake news
- Echo chambers
- Epistemic democracy
- Political ignorance
- Rationality
Broader interests
Epistemology; Metaethics; Political Philosophy
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Zachary Hoskins
Particular interests
- Philosophy of criminal law
- Punishment theory
- Collateral consequences of a conviction
- Criminalisation
- Political obligation
Broader interests
Legal Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Moral Philosophy
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Mark Jago
Particular interests
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- Truth
- Truthmaking
- Paradoxes
- Possible/impossible worlds
- Formal logic
- Formal epistemology
- Metaphysics (of objects/properties)
- Grounding
- Indexicals
- Meaning
- Content in Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language
Broader interests
Philosophy of Language; Metaphysics of Mind; History of Analytic Philosophy; Frege; Russell; Wittgenstein
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Lina Jansson
Particular interests
- Scientific explanation
- Scientific laws (Laws of Nature)
- Non-empirical criteria for theory choice (simplicity, unification, etc.)
- Theory confirmation and selection
Broader interests
Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Physics; Metaphysics
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Ian James Kidd
Particular interests
- Philosophy of illness
- Virtue and vice epistemology
Broader interests
Virtues and vices; Buddhist Philosophy (especially moral philosophy); Chinese Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Science
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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko
Particular interests
- Philosophy of Recreation
- Social Ontology
Broader interests
Political Philosophy; Moral Philosophy
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Katie Monk
Harold Noonan
Particular interests
- Identity and personal identity
- Naming and necessity
- Frege
- Philosophy of language
- Philosophical logic
- Hume
Broader interests
Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics
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Stefano Predelli
Particular interests
- Formal Semantics
- Theory of conversation
- Pragmatics
Broader interests
Ontology of Art
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Jon Robson
Particular interests
- Aesthetics and meta-aesthetics
- Videogames
- Philosophy of Religion
Broader interests
Epistemology; Metaphysics
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Benedict Rumbold
Particular interests
- Normative Ethics
- Contractualism
- Consequentialism
- Aggregation
- Universalizability
- Fairness
- Egalitarianism
- Prioritarianism
- Moral status (animals)
- Particularism
- Scanlon
- Parfit
- Rawls
- Kant
Broader interests
Moral Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Early modern Philosophy; Applied Moral and Political Philosophy
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Antonio Salgado Borge
Particular interests
- Spinoza
- Especially his metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Rationalism and Empiricism
- Philosophy of mind
- Political philosophy
- The Enlightenment
- Toleration
- Feminism
Broader interests
Metaphysics; Philosophy of mind; Ancient Philosophy (especially Aristotle); Early Analytic Philosophy; Medieval Philosophy; Philosophy of History; Political Philosophy; Feminism.
Neil Sinclair
Particular interests
- Metaethics
- Moral semantics
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Psychology( especially anti-realism)
- Aesthetics (especially anti-realism)
- Environmental Ethics
Broader interests
Moral Philosophy; Normative Ethics; Applied Ethics (especially artificial intelligence)
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Jonathan Tallant
Particular interests
- Philosophy of Time
- Trust
- Non-empirical criteria for theory choice (simplicity, unification, etc.)
- Grounding
Broader interests
Metaphysics; Metametaphysics
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Christopher Woodard
Particular interests
- Consequentialism
- Rule- or collective-consequentialism
- Well-being and ill-being
- Utilitarianism
Broader interests
Moral Philosophy; Normative Ethics; Applied Ethics; Political Philosophy
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