Our members of staff are offering high quality PhD supervision in the areas listed below. If you are considering applying for our PhD course and work on these areas, feel free to contact our potential supervisors for details about the admissions process. You can find their contact details from our staff profiles. The only exception to this is that, if you are interested in supervised by one of our Distinguished Research Professors, please contact Professor Scott Sturgeon here at Birmingham.
Professor Lisa Bortolotti
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Philosophy of psychology
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Philosophy of psychiatry
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Empirically informed philosophy of mind
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Biomedical ethics
Dr Darragh Byrne
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Reference
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Consciousness (especially semantic and epistemic issues)
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First-person knowledge
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A priori knowledge
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Objectivity, realism and anti-realism
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Rule-following and the normativity of meaning
Dr Justin Clarke-Doane
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Metaphysics
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Epistemology
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Philosophy of mathematics
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Philosophy of logic
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Metaethics
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Moral responsibility (certain areas)
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Philosophy of psychiatry (certain areas)
Research Professor Hartry Field
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Philosophy of mathematics
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Metaphysics
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Epistemology
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Logic
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Philosophy of science
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Philosophy of language
Professor Field will co-supervise students with other members of staff. For more information, please contact Professor Scott Sturgeon.
Research Professor Kit Fine
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Metaphysics
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Logic
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Philosophy of language
Professor Fine will co-supervise students with other members of staff. For more information, please contact Professor Scott Sturgeon.
Dr Nikk Effingham
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Analytic metaphysics (including areas that crossover into philosophy of mind and philosophy of science)
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Certain areas of philosophy of religion
Dr Nicholas Jones
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Metaphysics
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Philosophy of language
Dr Iain Law
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Metaethics
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Applied ethics
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Philosophy of medicine
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Ethical theories
Professor Yujin Nagasawa
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Philosophy of religion
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Philosophy of mind
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Applied philosophy (medical ethics, meaning of life, death)
Research Professor Stephen Neale
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Philosophy of language and linguistics
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Logic
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Philosophy of mind
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Metaphysics
Professor Neale will co-supervise students with other members of staff. For more information, please contact Professor Scott Sturgeon.
Research Professor Susanna Siegel
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Perception
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Philosophy of mind
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Epistemology
Professor Siegel will co-supervise students with other members of staff. For more information, please contact Professor Scott Sturgeon.
Dr Alex Silk
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Philosophy of language
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Normative ethics
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Metaethics
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Formal semantics and pragmatics
Dr Maja Spener
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Philosophy of mind
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Philosophy of psychology and cognitive science
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Epistemology
Professor Scott Sturgeon
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Epistemology
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Metaphysics
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Philosophy of science
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Philosophy of mind
Dr Jussi Suikkanen
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Metaethics
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Ethical theories
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Happiness and wellbeing
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Population ethics and ethics of global warming
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Practical reason, reasons, rationality, and value
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Certain topics in political philosophy such as distributive justice
Dr Mark Walker
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Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kant
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The objectivity of aesthetics
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Rationality and self-deception
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Egoism and altruism
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The nature of moral concepts
Research Professor Ralph Wedgwood
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Metaethics
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Epistemology
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Philosophy of mind
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Philosophy of language
Professor Wedgwood will co-supervise students with other members of staff. For more information, please contact Professor Scott Sturgeon.
Professor Heather Widdows
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Bioethics and public health
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Global ethics, global justice, and duties beyond borders
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Iris Murdoch
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Moral theory, particularly virtue ethics
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Neo-colonialism and multiculturalism
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Women's rights and reproductive rigths
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Ethics of war, terrorism and torture
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The application of moral theory to policy and practice
Dr Jeremy Williams
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Moral and political philosophy
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Applied ethics (especially abortion and ethics of war)
Dr Alastair Wilson
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Metaphysics
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Epistemology
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Philosophy of physics
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Philosophy of science