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

Permanent Teaching Staff

Dr Arif Ahmed University Reader ama24@cam.ac.uk	Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics
Professor Alexander Bird Bertrand Russell Professor ajb368@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Metaphysics, Epistemology
Dr Julia Borcherding University Lecturer jasb5@cam.ac.uk	Early modern philosophy, ethics On research leave in Easter Term 2022 from 01/05/22-31/07/22
Dr Angela Breitenbach University Lecturer ab335@cam.ac.uk	Kant, philosophy of science, environmental philosophy, aesthetics On leave Lent Term 2022
Professor Clare Chambers Professor of Political Philosophy cec66@cam.ac.uk	Political Philosophy On research leave from 1/10/2018 to 30/09/2021 [Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship], and on sabbatical leave in Lent Term 2022
Dr Sarah Fine (starts 1st September 2021)	Political Philosophy, Ethics, History of Social and Political Philosophy
Dr Neil Dewar (starts 1st September 2021)	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 On sabbatical leave in Lent Term 2022
Professor Rae Langton Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy *Chair of the Faculty* rhl27@cam.ac.uk	History of Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics and Feminist Philosophy On sabbatical leave for 2021-22
Dr Jessie Munton University Lecturer jm2200@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of mind, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Psychology On research leave for Michaelmas Term 2021 (CRASSH Early Career Research Fellowship)
Professor Alex Oliver Professor of Philosophy ado10@cam.ac.uk	Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics On sabbatical leave in Easter Term 2021 and Easter Term 2022
Professor Michael Potter Professor of Philosophy michael.potter@phil.cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophical Logic, History of Analytic Philosophy On sabbatical leave in Michaelmas Term 2021
Dr Paulina Sliwa University Senior Lecturer pas70@cam.ac.uk until 31st August 2021	Ethics, Epistemology

Fixed Term Lecturers

Dr John Filling Lecturer jf582@cam.ac.uk	Ethics, Political Philosophy, Hegel, Marx
Dr Owen Griffiths Lecturer oeg21@cam.ac.uk	Logic, Philosophy of Language, History of Analytic Philosophy
Dr Nikhil Krishnan Lecturer nk459@cam.ac.uk	Ethics, Metaethics, Political Philosophy, History of 20th-Century Philosophy
Dr Tom McClelland Lecturer twm30@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Mind and Action, Philosophy of Psychology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics, Epistemology
Dr Maeve McKeown Lecturer mm2143@cam.ac.uk until 31st July 2021	Ethics, Political Philosophy, Feminism

Research Fellows

Dr Adam Bales Junior Research Fellow St John's College atb39@cam.ac.uk	Decision Theory, Practical Rationality
Dr Ali Boyle Research Associate in Kinds of Intelligence Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge & Centre for Science and Thought, University of Bonn asb69@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Mind and Psychology
Dr Jeremy Butterfield Senior Research Fellow Trinity College jb56@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Physics
Dr Stephen Cave Senior Research Associate Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence sjc53@cam.ac.uk	Applied ethics, ontology, philosophy of technology
Jacopo Domenicucci Junior Research Fellow Emmanuel College jd667@cam.ac.uk	Risk and practical rationality
Dr Daisy Dixon Junior Research Fellow Peterhouse dd426@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Art, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
Dr Michael Gabbay Research Fellow funded by International Federation of Computational Logic mg639@cam.ac.uk	Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics
Dr Antara Haldar Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow ah447@cam.ac.uk	Law and Development, Law and Economics, Legal theory
Dr Spencer Johnston British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow scj43@cam.ac.uk	Medieval Philosophy, Mathematical Logic
Dr Maiya Jordan British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow moj22@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Moral Psychology
Dr Yang Liu Leverhulme Early Career Fellow yl587@cam.ac.uk	Logic, Philosophy of Probability, Rational Choice
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
Professor Huw Price Leverhulme CFI Academic Director hp331@cam.ac.uk	Pragmatism, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
Dr Matthew Simpson Isaac Newton Research Fellow Robinson College ms887@cam.ac.uk	Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
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

Emeritus Professors

Professor Simon Blackburn Emeritus Professor	Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Psychology
Professor Raymond Geuss Professor of Philosophy	Political and Social Thought, Aesthetics
Professor Jane Heal Professor in Philosophy	Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
Professor D.H. Mellor Emeritus Professor died 21 June 2020	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