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Faculty of Philosophy

 

Permanent Teaching Staff

Fixed Term Lecturers

Research Fellows

Affiliated Lecturers

Other Staff

Emeritus Professors

 

Permanent Teaching Staff

Professor Alexander Bird
Bertrand Russell Professor

Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Metaphysics, Epistemology

Chair of Faculty Board

Dr Julia Borcherding
Associate Professor

Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics

Professor Angela Breitenbach
Professor of Philosophy

ab335@cam.ac.uk

Kant, Philosophy of Science, Environmental Philosophy, Aesthetics

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 Neil Dewar
Associate Professor

nad42@cam.ac.uk

Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Logic

Dr Sarah Fine
Associate Professor

sjf43@cam.ac.uk

Political Philosophy, Ethics, History of Social and Political Philosophy

Dr Owen Griffiths
Assistant Professor

Logic, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Aesthetics

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 sabbatical leave in Easter Term 2025

Dr Jessie Munton
Associate Professor

Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Psychology

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

On sabbatical leave in Easter Term 2025

 

Fixed Term Teaching Staff

Dr Will Hornett
Teaching Associate

wch26@cam.ac.uk

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action, Metaphysics

Dr Matthew Simpson
Assistant Professor

ms887@cam.ac.uk

Philosophy of Language, Metaethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Pragmatism

 

 

Research Fellows 

Suf Amichay
Junior Research Fellow
Trinity Hall

sta34@cam.ac.uk

Medieval Philosophy (Hebrew, Arabic and Latin), Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics

Dr Alexander Bryan
Isaac Newton Trust Career Development Research Fellow 
Magdalene College and Newnham College

ajb387@cam.ac.uk

 

Political Philosophy, Ethics

Dr Lea Cantor
Junior Research Fellow
Peterhouse

lyc24@cam.ac.uk

Ancient (Greek and Roman) philosophy; Chinese philosophy; comparative philosophy; historiography of philosophy

Dr David Collins 

Rubinoff Early Career Research Fellow
Churchill
 
 
Aesthetics, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Pragmatism, Phenomenology and Existentialism.

Dr Laura Caponetto
Sarah Smithson Research Fellow
Newnham College

lc882@cam.ac.uk

Philosophy of Language, Feminist Philosophy, Social Philosophy

Dr Nathan Cofnas
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Philosophy of biology, ethics

Jacopo Domenicucci
Junior Research Fellow
Emmanuel College 

Risk and practical rationality

Dr Michael Gabbay
Research Fellow funded by International Federation of Computational Logic

mg639@cam.ac.uk

Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics

Prof. Paul Hoyningen Huene 
Visiting Fellow
St John's College

ph619@cam.ac.uk

Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Economics

Dr Maiya Jordan
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Moral Psychology

Dr Paula Keller
Junior Research Fellow
Jesus College
pmk41@cam.ac.uk

Feminist Epistemology, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Language

Dr Louis Klee
Assistant Professor
Trinity Hall

Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature, Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy

Dr Kamil Majcherek
Junior Research Fellow
Trinity College

Medieval Philosophy, Early modern philosophy, Metaphysics

Dr Chiara Martini
Junior Research Fellow
Corpus Christi College

cm960@cam.ac.uk

Ancient Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics

Dr Benjamin Marschall
Junior Research Fellow
Trinity College

History of Analytic Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language 

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 William Simpson
Junior Research Fellow
St Edmund's College

wmrs2@cam.ac.uk

Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, and Metaphysics
   

 

Affiliated Lecturers

   

Dr Marina Frasca-Spada
Affiliated Lecturer

History of early modern philosophy

Dr John Filling
Affiliated Lecturer

Ethics, Political Philosophy, Hegel, Marx

 

Other Staff

Dr Claire Benn
Assistant Professor
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

cmab3@cam.ac.uk

Ethics both normal and applied, and philosophy of technology

Dr Stephen Cave
Director
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

Applied ethics, ontology, philosophy of technology

Dr Spencer Johnston
Philosophy Subject Convenor (Undergraduate Admissions)

scj43@cam.ac.uk

History and philosophy of logic

 

 

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 Huw Price
Emeritus Professor

Pragmatism, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Professor T.J. Smiley
Emeritus Professor

Logic, Philosophical Logic, Aristotle