Theoretical Philosophy

• Dr Keith Allen
Colour, the philosophy of perception and meta-philosophy.

• Professor Greg Currie
Art and cognitive science, the imagination and its place in the architecture of mind and philosophy of literature..

• Dr Stephen Everson
Philosophy of mind, metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

• Dr Johan Gustafsson
Decision theory, free will, personal identity, ontological proofs and the logical problem of evil.

• Dr David Ingram
Metaphysics, and philosophy of time.

• Dr Owen Hulatt
Analytic and continental approaches to aesthetics.

• Dr Christopher Jay
Fictionalism.

• Professor Peter Lamarque
Philosophy of literature especially, interpretation, literature and truth. Art ontology, poetry, narrative and the self.

• Dr Mary Leng

Philosophy of mathematics and science and meta-metaphysics.

• Dr Daniel Morgan
Philosophy of mind and moral psychology.

• Professor Paul Noordhof
Consciousness, representation, imagination, self-deception and belief and mental causation.

• Dr Christian Piller
Epistemology.

• Professor Tom Stoneham
The phenomenal characters of perceiving and pseudo-perceiving, self-knowledge and temporal externalism.

• Professor Matthew Ratcliffe
Phenomenology, philosophy of psychiatry, social cognition, emotions and feelings. Perception and religious experience.

• Dr Louise Richardson
The philosophy of perception and the senses.

• Dr Fiora Salis
Nature and varieties of imagination.

• Dr Rob Trueman
Philosophical logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics.

• Andrew Ward (Honorary Life Fellow)
Personal identity.

• Dr David Worsley
Philosophy of religion and analytic theology; moral character and virtue.

• Professor Dorothea Debus (University of Konstanz)
Memory, imagination, attention, perception and the emotions.

• Professor Michael Devitt (City University of New York Graduate Centre)
Philosophy of language, philosophy of linguistics, naturalised metaphysics.

• Professor James Ladyman (University of Bristol)
Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of information and computation, philosophy of mathematics.

• Professor Jennifer Radden (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Boston)
Philosophy of psychiatry; emotions.

• Professor Eleonore Stump (St Louis University)
Philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics and medieval philosophy.

• Chelsea Demanche (cd1605@york.ac.uk)

Neuro-diversity and the Fundamental Complexity of Consciousness (supervisor: Professor Tom Stoneham)

• Jake Dorothy (jake.dorothy@york.ac.uk)

A Phenomenological Analysis of Self in Complex Trauma (supervisor: Professor Matthew Ratcliffe) 

• James Dyer (james.dyer@york.ac.uk)
  Understanding Gender Identity (supervisor: Professor Mary Leng)
  
  
• David Garside (david.garside@york.ac.uk) (supervisors: Dr David Worsley and Professor Greg Currie)

Exploring Omnisubjectivity and the implications it has for other areas of the Philosophy of Christianity

• Siying Jiao (sj1494@york.ac.uk)

Olfaction, Gustation and Aesthetics (supervisor: Dr Louise Richardson)

• Nasir Khan (nasir.khan@york.ac.uk)

Deflationary Neutral Monism: one order of existence and power (supervisor: Professor Paul Noordhof)

• Ivan Kyambadde (isk507@york.ac.uk)
  The Biomimcry of Sentience as a Path to AGI (supervisor: Professor Tom Stoneham)
  
  
• Jacob O'Sullivan (jacob.osullivan@york.ac.uk)

Should we accept the existence of mathematical objects? An evaluation of mathematical fictionalist attempts to remove ontological commitment to mathematical entities. (supervisor: Professor Mary Leng)

• Robin Pawlett-Howell (rph512@york.ac.uk)
  Phenomenology, Self-Respect, and Justice: Creating a Dialogue Between French Phenomenology and a Rawlsian Approach to Justice (supervisors: Professor Matthew Ratcliffe and Dr Martin O'Neill)
  
  
• Angelos Sofocleous (angelos.sofocleous@york.ac.uk)
  The phenomenological experience of non-participant spectatorship in depression (supervisors: Professor Matthew Ratcliffe and Dr Keith Allen)
  
  

• Daryl Tyrer (daryl.tyrer@york.ac.uk)

Can the evolutionary naturalist account for realism in metaphysics and science? My research will focus on reformulations of Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism. Specifically, I aim to show how Plantinga’s argument can be recast as an argument for scientific anti-realism and anti-realism regarding claims about metaphysics. I propose to do this by showing how Plantinga’s argument is structurally similar to other arguments for scientific anti-realism. Then I intend to demonstrate how Plantinga’s narrower form of his argument, that the reliability of our metaphysical belief-forming mechanisms is questionable given evolutionary naturalism, can also be used to support anti-realism in metaphysics. This approach differs from Plantinga’s in that it rejects global scepticism; I am instead arguing for local scepticism regarding metaphysical claims. The result is that if we are sceptics about certain metaphysical claims underpinning the sciences, then this scepticism also affects science more generally. (supervisors: Professor Mary Leng and Professor Tom Stoneham)

• Kendra Wegscheidler (krw525@york.ac.uk)
  What is a Philosophical Novel? Exploring the Significant Philosophical Contributions Made By Literature (supervisor: Professor Peter Lamarque)
  
  
• Jane Wilson (jejw501@york.ac.uk)

A theory of forgiveness (supervisors: Professor Christian Piller and Dr Martin O'Neill)

• Sarah Wood (sarah.wood2@york.ac.uk)

What it is like to have Dementia: A Phenomenological Study (supervisor: Professor Matthew Ratcliffe)