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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

On research leave from 1st September 2023 - 31st August 2024 (Leverhulme Research Fellowship)

Dr Julia Borcherding
Associate Professor

Early modern philosophy, ethics

 

Professor Angela Breitenbach
Professor of Philosophy

Chair of The Faculty

(1st Jan - 31st Aug 2024).  

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

On sabbatical leave in Lent Term 2024

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

 

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

 

Dr Jessie Munton
Associate Professor

 

Philosophy of mind, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Psychology

On sabbatical leave in Lent Term 2024

 

Professor Alex Oliver
Professor of Philosophy

ado10@cam.ac.uk

Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics

On sabbatical leave in Easter Term 2024

Professor Michael Potter
Professor of Logic

mdp10@cam.ac.uk

Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophical Logic, History of Analytic Philosophy

 

 

 

Fixed Term Teaching Staff

Colette Olive
Teaching Associate

cmo42@cam.ac.uk

Aesthetics, Ethics, Kant, Post-Kantian Philosophy, Continental Philosophy

Dr Will Hornett
Teaching Associate

wch26@cam.ac.uk

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action, Metaphysics

Dr Christopher Masterman
Teaching Associate

cm789@cam.ac.uk

Metaphysics, Logic, and Philosophy of Language

 

 

Research Fellows 

Dr Farbod Akhlaghi
Junior Research Fellow
Christ's College

Ethics, Meta-Ethics, (Meta-)Metaphysics

 

Suf Amichay
Junior Research Fellow
Trinity Hall

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 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

Dr Maiya Jordan
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Moral Psychology

Paula Keller
Junior Research Fellow

Jesus College

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 

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