Staff

Staff by research supervision area: find a research supervisor in Philosophy

Head of Department:

Professor Nikk Effingham

Professor Nikk Effingham

Professor of Philosophy
Head of Department

I research metaphysics, philosophy of time (mainly time travel), philosophy of religion, and philosophy of epidemiology.

Professors, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers and Researchers:

Professor Lisa Bortolotti

Professor Lisa Bortolotti

Professor of Philosophy

I am a philosopher of the cognitive sciences, focusing on the philosophy of psychology and psychiatry. I am also interested in some issues in biomedical ethics. I am the Editor in Chief of Philosophical Psychology.

My main interests lie in the strengths and limitations of human cognition and agency, investigating faulty reasoning and irrational beliefs, delusions, confabulations, distorted ...

Dr Chiara Brozzo

Assistant Professor in Philosophy

I work primarily in philosophy of cognitive science (including philosophy of psychology, empirically-informed philosophy of action and philosophy of psychiatry) and in aesthetics. My research in philosophy of cognitive science is about how we get things done (or fail to do so), and one of the main questions I investigate is: what drives or motivates our actions? I am therefore interested in ...

Dr Darragh Byrne

Dr Darragh Byrne

Associate Professor in Philosophy
Head of Education for the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion

My main interests are in philosophy of mind and language, though I tend to preoccupy myself with relatively general issues that arise where those areas intersect with epistemology and metaphysics, rather than with fine-grained debates internal to the philosophies of mind and language. Thus, I have tried to defend very broadly empiricist conceptions of linguistic understanding and concept ...

Dr Iain Law

Dr Iain Law

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

I’m a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and also Head of Education for the School of Philosophy, Theology & Religion. My main interests are in meta-ethics, applied ethics and ethical theory, and I’m currently working on papers in moral theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of medicine and applied ethics.

Dr Herjeet Marway

Dr Herjeet Marway

Lecturer

I am a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. My teaching and research relates to global issues in moral and political philosophy.

Dr Mohsen Moghri

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Mohsen Moghri is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. He joined The Global Philosophy of Religion Project directed by Professor Yujin Nagasawa in September 2022, and his current research focus is on the Axiological Explanation and ...

Dr Wouter Peeters

Dr Wouter Peeters

Associate Professor in Global Ethics

I am an Associate Professor of Global Ethics. My main interests are in climate change, environmental sustainability, social justice, moral theory and bioethics. I also dabble in intersubjective ethics and recognition theory.

 

Dr Martin Pickup

Dr Martin Pickup

Associate Professor in Philosophy
Director, Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion

I am interested in the ultimate character and structure of reality, and in the ways that religious claims fit into this (or fail to). This interest manifests through research into three different areas: Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics and Early Modern Philosophy (particularly Leibniz).

Dr Elliot Porter

Teaching Fellow in Ethics

Elliot is an early career researcher, interested in personal autonomy, the philosophy of madness and mental health, and brodaer themes in social and political philosophy.  In particular, he is interested in mad perspectives as a starting point form which to do philosophy, and in the kinds of specialised moral knowledge that we have privileged access to when our perspectives are some ...

Dr Merten Reglitz

Dr Merten Reglitz

Associate Professor of Philosophy

I’m a political philosopher/theorist and my main research interests are in distributive justice, global justice and ethics, and normative approaches to the internet.

Dr Michael Rush

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

I am a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, working mainly on the nature of gratitude and the metaphysics of processes. My book for a general audience, co-written with Helen Beebee, Philosophy: Why it Matters, was published by Polity in 2019.

Dr Alex Silk

Associate Professor in Philosophy

I specialise in philosophy of language, ethics, and metaethics. My main research projects include work on context-sensitive language and normative and evaluative discourse. I also have projects on Nietzsche, predication, philosophy of law, and mood.

Dr Maja Spener

Associate Professor in Philosophy

My work focusses on issues at the intersection of philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, and epistemology. I have special interests and current research projects on introspective methods, the history of experimental psychology, introspective knowledge, psychological kinds, and the nature of perception.

Professor Scott Sturgeon

Professor of Philosophy

I tend to think about what is fundamental to subject and object: consciousness, thought, reason, space, time, possibility.

Dr Jussi Suikkanen

Dr Jussi Suikkanen

Reader in Philosophy

I am a Reader in Philosophy here at the University of Birmingham, where I have worked since September 2010. I have a wide range of interests in philosophy. Whilst my own research (described below) mainly focuses on the more theoretical side of moral philosophy in metaethics and normative ethics, I am also interested in philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and ...

Dr Ema Sullivan-Bissett

Dr Ema Sullivan-Bissett

Reader in Philosophy
Head of Research

I am a Reader in Philosophy working primarily in the philosophy of mind and psychology.

Dr Henry Taylor

Dr Henry Taylor

Associate Professor

Since joining the department in 2017, my work has focussed mainly on the interface between philosophy and STEM subjects. Much of my work is on interdisciplinary topics connected to consciousness, perception, and attention. I'm also very interested in robotics, especially the project of making robots more culturally sensitive. My work in these areas is collected in my papers (below).

One of my ...

Dr Areti Theofilopoulou

Assistant Professor in the Ethics of Non-Violence

I am an Assistant Professor in the Ethics of Non-Violence. My current research focuses on the ethics of personal relationships and particularly on domestic violence. I am also interested in criminal justice, public justification, the social contract tradition, the future of work, and mental health.

Dr Jeremy Williams

Dr Jeremy Williams

Associate Professor in Philosophy

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. My work is in moral and political philosophy, with a particular focus on bioethics, the ethics of killing, and theories of political justification, legitimacy, and toleration.