Philosophy Field
Core Staff
Professor
Alison Assiter (BA Bristol, B.Phil Oxford, D.Phil Sussex)
Feminist philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, Enlightenment
philosophy.
Dr Havi Carel (BA, MA Tel-Aviv, PhD Essex)
Phenomenology, philosophy of medicine, philosophy and film, the metaphysics of death and psychoanalysis.
Dr Iain Grant (BA Reading, MA, PhD Warwick) - Field Leader
Kant and postkantian philosophy, contemporary continental philosophy,
metaphysics, philosophy of nature, history and philosophy of science.
Dr John Sellars (BA Wales, MA, PhD Warwick)
Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphilosophy
Dr Sean Watson (BA UWE, PhD Warwick)
Bergson, Deleuze, philosophy of the body, philosophy of neuroscientific psychology, philosophy of desire, systems theory and autopoiesis.
Contributing Staff
Dr Nick Buttle (BA, MA, PhD Lancaster)
History of Political Thought (especially Roman period), Global Ethics, Global Justice, Human Rights, Warfare, Nationalism.
Dr Simon Thompson (BA Kent, M.Phil, D.Phil, Oxford)
Political theory, especially the politics of recognition, deliberative democracy, and politics and emotions.
Dr Greg Tuck
Philosophy and Film, Phenomenology
Visiting Staff 2009-10
Dr Darian Meacham (BA McGill University, MA, PhD Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Phenomenology, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, 20th Century French Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Bioethics (specifically what phenomenological accounts of vulnerability and enhancement can contribute to the field).
Jeremy Dunham (BA UWE)
PhD thesis on 'Monadology and Metaphysics'; Early Modern Philosophy, especially Leibniz, Metaphysics and British Idealism.
Simone Duca (BA, MA Milan)
Andrew Atkinson (BA Ulster, MA, PGCE Bristol, MA London)
