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Permanent Teaching Staff
Fixed Term Lecturers
Research Fellows
Affiliated Lecturers
Emeritus Professors

Permanent Teaching Staff

Professor Arif Ahmed Professor of Philosophy ama24@cam.ac.uk	Rational choice, Wittgenstein, religion
Professor Alexander Bird Bertrand Russell Professor *Chair of the Faculty* ajb368@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Metaphysics, Epistemology
Dr Julia Borcherding Associate Professor jasb5@cam.ac.uk	Early modern philosophy, ethics On sabbatical leave in Michaelmas Term 2022, and research leave from 1st April 2023 - 30th September 2023
Professor Angela Breitenbach Professor of Philosophy ab335@cam.ac.uk	Kant, philosophy of science, environmental philosophy, aesthetics On leave from 1st October 2022 - 31st December 2023, incorporating a Humboldt Research Fellowship
Professor Clare Chambers Professor of Political Philosophy cec66@cam.ac.uk	Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Bioethics
Dr Sophia Dandelet Assistant Professor and Sidgwick Lecturer scd58@cam.ac.uk	Epistemology, Ethics. Also interests in Feminist Philosophy.
Dr Sarah Fine Associate Professor sjf43@cam.ac.uk	Political Philosophy, Ethics, History of Social and Political Philosophy
Dr Neil Dewar Assistant Professor nad42@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Logic
Professor Richard Holton Professor of Philosophy rjh221@cam.ac.uk	Moral Psychology, Ethics, Philosophy of Law and Philosophy of Language
Professor Rae Langton Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy rhl27@cam.ac.uk	History of Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics and Feminist Philosophy On reduced duties MT2022
Dr Jessie Munton Associate Professor jm2200@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of mind, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Psychology On research leave for 2022-23 (Leverhulme Research Fellowship)
Professor Alex Oliver Professor of Philosophy ado10@cam.ac.uk	Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics
Professor Michael Potter Professor of Logic mdp10@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophical Logic, History of Analytic Philosophy

Fixed Term Teaching Staff


Dr Will Hornett Teaching Associate wch26@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action, Metaphysics
Dr Nikhil Krishnan Assistant Professor nk459@cam.ac.uk	Ethics, Metaethics, Political Philosophy, History of 20th-Century Philosophy
Mr Jack Wearing Teaching Associate jw811@cam.ac.uk	Kant, Continental Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics

Research Fellows

Dr Farbod Akhlaghi Junior Research Fellow Christ's College fa350@cam.ac.uk	Ethics, Meta-Ethics, (Meta-)Metaphysics

Dr Laura Caponetto Sarah Smithson Research Fellow Newnham College lc882@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Language, Feminist Philosophy, Social Philosophy
Dr Stephen Cave Director Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence sjc53@cam.ac.uk	Applied ethics, ontology, philosophy of technology
Dr Nathan Cofnas Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow nrc48@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of biology, ethics
Jacopo Domenicucci Junior Research Fellow Emmanuel College jd667@cam.ac.uk	Risk and practical rationality
Dr Michael Gabbay Research Fellow funded by International Federation of Computational Logic mg639@cam.ac.uk	Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics
Dr Maiya Jordan British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow moj22@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Moral Psychology
Dr Yang Liu Senior Research Fellow Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence yl587@cam.ac.uk	Logic, Philosophy of Probability, Rational Choice
Dr Kamil Majcherek Junior Research Fellow Trinity College km713@cam.ac.uk	Medieval Philosophy, Early modern philosophy, Metaphysics
Dr Benjamin Marschall Junior Research Fellow Trinity College bm515@cam.ac.uk	History of Analytic Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
Dr Lucy McDonald Junior Research Fellow St John's College lm675@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy
Professor John Marenbon Senior Research Fellow Trinity College jm258@cam.ac.uk	Medieval Philosophy
Dr Lukas Meier Junior Research Fellow Churchill College ljm204@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Mind, Personal Identity, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Dr Tushar Menon British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow tv288@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science
Dr Matthew Simpson Isaac Newton Research Fellow Robinson College ms887@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
Dr William Simpson Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College wmrs2@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, and Metaphysics
Dr Cecily Whiteley Career Development Research Fellow Magdalene College and Newnham College cmkw2@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy and metaphysics of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of psychiatry
Dr Dan Williams Junior Research Fellow Corpus Christi College dw473@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of mind and psychology

Affiliated Lecturers


Dr Marina Frasca-Spada Affiliated Lecturer mfs10@cam.ac.uk	History of early modern philosophy
Dr John Filling Affiliated Lecturer jf582@cam.ac.uk	Ethics, Political Philosophy, Hegel, Marx

Emeritus Professors

Professor Simon Blackburn Emeritus Professor	Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Psychology
Professor Raymond Geuss Emeritus Professor	Political and Social Thought, Aesthetics
Professor Jane Heal Emeritus Professor	Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
Professor Onora O'Neill Emeritus Honorary Professor	Immanuel Kant, Political Philosophy, Ethics: Obligations and Rights; Justice and Virtues, Bioethics
Professor H uw Price Emeritus Professor	Pragmatism, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
Professor T.J. Smiley Emeritus Professor	Logic, Philosophical Logic, Aristotle