Faculty of Philosophy


Teaching and Research Staff



Permanent Teaching Staff



Dr Arif Ahmed
University Senior Lecturer
Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics

Dr Angela Breitenbach
University Lecturer
Kant, Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics

Dr Tim Button
University Lecturer
Metaphysics, Philosophy of mathematics and philosophical logic

Dr Clare Chambers
University Senior Lecturer
Political Philosophy

Professor Tim Crane
Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy

Chair of the Faculty
Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Psychology

Professor Raymond Geuss
Professor of Philosophy
Political and Social Thought, Aesthetics

Dr Hallvard Lillehammer
University Senior Lecturer
Ethics, Political Philosophy

Professor Alex Oliver
Professor of Philosophy
Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics

Professor Michael Potter
Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophical Logic, History of Analytic Philosophy

Professor Huw Price
Bertrand Russell Professor
Pragmatism, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Dr Paulina Sliwa
University Lecturer

Ethics, Epistemology

Senior Research Fellows




Dr Jeremy Butterfield
Senior Research Fellow
Trinity College
Philosophy of Physics

Professor John Marenbon
Senior Research Fellow
Trinity College
Medieval Philosophy

Junior Research Fellows



Dr Laura Biron
Junior Research Fellow
Queens' College
Philosophy of Law, Ethics

Dr Adam Caulton
British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow
Philosophy of Physics

Will Davies
Junior Research Fellow
Churchill College
Colour, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind

Lorna Finlayson
Junior Research Fellow
King's College
Political Philosophy

Dr Thomas Land
Junior Research Fellow
Corpus Christi College
Kant, History of Modern Philosophy

Dr John Maier
Post Doctoral Fellow
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind and Action

Dr Brian Pitts
Post Doctoral Fellow funded by
Isaac Newton Trust
Philosophy of Physics

Tom Simpson
Junior Research Fellow
Sidney Sussex College
Testimony and social epistemology, trust, and applied ethics in the philosophy of technology

Affiliated Lecturers



Dr Sophia Connell
Teaching Associate
Ancient philosophy, Ethics, Metaphysics

Dr Michael Gabbay
Affiliated Lecturer
Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics

Professor Derek Matravers
Affiliated Lecturer
Aesthetics, Ethics, Political Philosophy

Dr Lubomira Radoilska
Affiliated Lecturer
Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

Dr Adam Stewart-Wallace
Teaching Associate
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language

Temporary Teaching Staff



Dr Luca Incurvati
Temporary Lecturer

Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophical Logic

Dr Chris Thompson
Temporary Lecturer

Political Philosophy

Dr Nicholas Vrousalis
Temporary Lecturer

Political Philosophy

Emeritus Professors



Professor Simon Blackburn
Emeritus Professor
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Psychology

Professor Jane Heal
Professor in Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

Professor D.H. Mellor
Emeritus Professor
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind

Professor Onora O'Neill
Emeritus Honorary Professor
Immanuel Kant, Political Philosophy, Ethics: Obligations and Rights; Justice and Virtues, Bioethics

Professor T.J. Smiley
Emeritus Professor
Logic, Philosophical Logic, Aristotle