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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.
Professors, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers and Researchers:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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 ...

Lecturer in Philosophy
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 ...

Professor of Philosophy
Head of Research
I research metaphysics, philosophy of time (mainly time travel), philosophy of religion, and philosophy of epidemiology.
Reader in Philosophy
My main research interests are in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. I am currently focusing on philosophical issues concerning the nature of logic and the foundations of semantics.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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.

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.
Teaching Fellow
I am a Teaching Fellow in philosophy. My work is on moral philosophy and interpersonal relations.

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

H.G. Wood Professor of the Philosophy of Religion
Co-Director, Birmingham Centre for the Philosophy of Religion
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 ...

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

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Senior Lecturer in Global Ethics
I’m a Senior Lecturer in global ethics and joined the Department of Philosophy in 2016.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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.

Research Fellow
Philosophy of science, especially philosophy of physics
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.
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 of Philosophy
I tend to think about what is fundamental to subject and object: consciousness, thought, reason, space, time, possibility.

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 ...

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

Associate Professor
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 ...

Lecturer in Philosophy
I am a Lecturer 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.

Professor of Philosophy
I’m a philosopher focusing on research in metaphysics and philosophy of physics. I also have research interests in epistemology and philosophy of science. For more information please visit my personal website.
Honorary Fellows:
Dr Gary Cox
Existentialism
Dr Dan O'Brien
Philosophy of mind and language, epistemology
Dr Justin Clarke-Doane
Metaethics, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics
Dr Gideon Makin
Philosophy of language, philosophical logic, history of analytic philosophy
Dr Caroline Mullen
Applied ethics, political philosophy
Dr N. M. L. Nathan
Epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion
Dr Joakim Sandberg
Moral philosophy, business ethics, applied ethics
Dr Mark Walker
Philosophy of mind, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Spinoza