History of Philosophy
We bring the history of philosophy into dialogue with debates and issues in contemporary philosophy.
Our staff have diverse interests in the history of philosophy that range from ancient philosophy through to philosophy in the phenomenological tradition and issues in the history of analytic philosophy.
We have special research strengths in early modern philosophy and post-Kantianism and critical theory.
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- Dr Keith Allen Locke on perception, Margaret Cavendish and Merleau-Ponty.
- Professor Tom Baldwin (emeritus)
G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and early analytic philosophy; Merleau-Ponty.
- Dr James Clarke Rousseau's moral psychology, especially his account of amour-propre and political philosophy. Post-Kantian practical philosophy, especially Erhard, Fichte, and Hegel and the philosophy of recognition.
- Dr Stephen Everson Ancient philosophy with emphasis on Plato and Aristotle.
- Dr Johan Gustafsson Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick and John Locke.
- Dr Owen Hulatt Spinoza's metaphysics, Hegel's aesthetics and social philosophy. Adorno's critical theory and Althusser's Marxism.
- Dr David Ingram
Rationalist metaphysics (Spinoza & Leibniz)
- Professor Marie McGinn (Emeritus) Wittgenstein.
- Professor Matthew Ratcliffe Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.
- Professor Tom Stoneham Berkeley, Margaret Cavendish, Arthur Collier, Richard Burthogge and Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
- Dr Rob Trueman The history of early analytic philosophy (Frege, Wittgenstein and Ramsey).
- Andrew Ward (Honorary Life Fellow) Hume and Kant.
- Professor Catherine Wilson Descartes, Leibniz and Kant.
- Professor Sarah Hutton The history of early modern philosophy, especially 17th-century British philosophy. Special interests in the Cambridge Platonists and women philosophers.
- Thomas Dowling (twd510
@york.ac.uk )
An historical review and reconstruction of 'reification' (supervisors: Dr James Clarke and Dr Owen Hulatt) - Denise Goh (denise.goh
@york.ac.uk )
Post-truth as a Struggle for Recognition: a critical analysis of ideology, identity, and institutions in knowledge preservation (supervisors: Dr James Clarke and Dr Owen Hulatt)