Philosophy
Dr Christian Barry
Social and political philosophy, international economics and development,
moral philosophy,philosophy of action
Professor H Geoffrey Brennan
Political theory, economics and philosophy, and public economics.
Professor David J Chalmers
Philosophy of mind; philosophy and cognitive science; consciousness; artificial intelligence and computation; meaning and possibility; foundations of cognitive science and of physics.
Professor Martin K Davies
Philosophy of cognitive science; philosophy of mind and language; epistemology.
Dr Brian Garrett
Metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of mind, and Wittgenstein.
Professor Robert Goodin
Political theory; public policy; applied ethics; democratic theory; welfare policy.
Professor Alan R Hajek
Probability & Decision Theory, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion
Dr Brendan Jackson
Philosophy of language and metaphysics; philosophical semantics; interaction between compositional semantic structure and lexical meaning; role of extra-linguistic context; fictionalism and ontological commitment; neo-Fregean approaches to abstract objects; issues in meta-ontology.
Professor Frank C Jackson
Philosophical Logic; Cognitive Science; Epistemology and Metaphysics; Meta-Ethics.
Dr Fiona Jenkins
Nietzsche and Post-Nietzschean thinkers; Contemporary European Philosophy (with special interests in Political and Ethical questions); Feminist Theory; Philosophical Counselling; Film as Philosophy.
Dr Richard J Joyce Metaethics; philosophy of language; metaphysics; philosophy of mind; aesthetics; evolutionary ethics.
Assoc. Professor Jeanette Kennett
Moral cognition and development; mental disorder and moral agency; legal and moral responsibility; relational identity; ethical issues in institutional and social responses to addiction and mental illness; ethical issues in Behavioural genetics.
Professor Seumas Miller
Professional and applied ethics, especially police ethics, media ethics, business ethics, computer ethics, and welfare ethics; Philosophy of action (social action); Philosophy of language (pragmatics); Philosophy of literature; literary theory.
Dr Yujin Nagasawa
Applied Ethics; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Religion
Professor Thomas Pogge
Global justice
Dr Michael Selgelid
Bioethics
Dr Jeremy Shearmur
Philosophy and methodology of the Social Sciences; political philosophy; history of political thought; Hayek; Popper
Professor Kim Sterelny
Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Psychology; Philosophy of Mind.
Dr Daniel Stoljar
Philosophy of mind; metaphysics; metaethics.
Dr Udo Thiel
17th and 18thC philosophy, aesthetics, and European philosophy.