Staff

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 Bakinaz Abdalla is a post-doctoral fellow associated with the Global Philosophy of Religion project. Her main areas of interest are Philosophy of Religion, Jewish and Islamic Philosophy and Digital Humanities.

Abbas Ahsan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham. He is a member of The Global Philosophy of Religion Project directed by Professor Yujin Nagasawa.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Marie-Hélène Gorisse is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Birmingham. She joined the department in December 2021 as a member of The Global Philosophy of Religion Project directed by Professor Yujin Nagasawa. Besides philosophy of religion, she specialises in South Asian philosophy, Jainism, Buddhism, and epistemology. 

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.

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

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 ...

Yujin Nagasawa specialises in the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mind and applied philosophy. He is the author of Maximal God: A New Defence of Perfect Being Theism (Oxford University Press, 2017), Miracles: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2011) and God and Phenomenal ...

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.

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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 ...

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.

Nataliia Reva is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Birmingham, and a member of The Global Philosophy of Religion Project directed by Professor Yujin Nagasawa.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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

Since joining the department in 2017, my work has focussed on the interface between philosophy and cognitive science. I have worked especially on consciousness, perception, and attention. I’m especially interested in how these faculties interact with each other in the mind. My work in these areas is collected in my papers (below).

I am currently interested in the relations between ...

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.

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.