Philosophy Program
Research
Staff Research Interests:
Contemporary European Philosophy
- Feminism and epistemology - Philipa Rothfield
- Heidegger's thought - George Vassilacopoulos
- Merleau-Ponty - Philipa Rothfield
- Philosophy of the body - Philipa Rothfield, Jack Reynolds
- Postmodernism - Philipa Rothfield
- Hegel - George Vassilacopoulos
- Post-structuralism (esp. Derrida & Deleuze) - Jack Reynolds
- Existentialism & Phenomenology (esp. Sartre, Heidegger & Merleau-Ponty - Jack Reynolds
- Philosophy of Otherness/Alterity/Intersubjectivity - Jack Reynolds
Epistemology
- Feminist epistemology - Freya Mathews
Environmental Philosophy
- Environmental metaphysics & epistemology
Freya Mathews
- Environmental ethics - Andrew Brennan, Norva Y.S. Lo, Janna Thompson
Feminism
- Corporeal feminism - Philipa Rothfield
- French feminism - Philipa Rothfield
- Feminist epistemology - Janna Thompson
- Feminist social theory - Janna Thompson, Toula Nicolacopoulos
- Feminist epistemology and ecofeminism - Freya Mathews
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Philosophy & History of Science
- Comparative history of science & medicine - Andrew Brennan
- Post-Popperian philosophy of science - John Fox
- Strong research programmes & the sociology of science - John Fox
Logic and Philosophical Logic
- Entailment & conditionals - Andrew Brennan
- Relevant logic proof theory & semantics - Ross Brady
- Set-theoretic and semantic paradoxes - Ross Brady, John Fox
- Substitutional semantics - John Fox
- Classicality, negation & entailment - Ross Brady
Metaphysics
- Identity & personal identity - Andrew Brennan
- Nominalism - John Fox
- Theories of truth - John Fox
Moral Philosophy (Ethics, Applied Ethics & Metaethics)
- Environmental Ethics - Andrew Brennan, Norva Y.S. Lo, Janna Thompson
- Ethics - Norva Y.S. Lo
- Meta-ethics (e.g. theories of value, anti-rationalism, humanism, empirical ethics, moral epistemology, subjectivity & objectivity) - Norva Y.S. Lo
- Communitarianism - Toula Nicolacopoulos
- David Hume's moral philosophy - Norva Y.S. Lo
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Moral Psychology
- Moral motivation, reason and emotion - Norva Y.S. Lo
Philosophy of Mathematics
- Foundations of mathematics - John Fox
Philosophy of Psychology
- Psychotherapy
- Evidence for psychoanalytic theory - John Fox
- Freud and feminism - John Fox
- Moral Psychology
- Moral motivation, reason & emotion - Norva Y.S. Lo
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Philosophy of social sciences - Janna Thompson
- Philosophy & environmental policy - Andrew Brennan
- Worldviews, attitudes & social policy - Andrew Brennan, Norva Y.S. Lo
Political Philosophy
- Justice & communities
- Communitarianism - Toula Nicolacopoulos
- War & Peace - John Fox
- Criteria for just wars; war & respect for human rights - Janna Thompson, John Fox
- Pacifism; nuclear deterrence - John Fox
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Philosophy of international relations - Janna Thompson
- Time & Politics (evaluating the strengths & weaknesses of analytic & continental political philosophies & their differing temporal assumptions) - Jack Reynolds
- Violence & Dirty Hands - Jack Reynolds
Comparing 'Analytic' & 'Continental' Methods
(esp. reflective equilibrium, thought experiments, condeptual & linguistic analysis, prpbability & decision theory, transcendental arguments, phenomenological, hermeneutical, genealogical & deconstructive methods) - Jack Reynolds
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