Guy Longworth

Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department

Email: G dot H dot Longworth at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44(0)24 765 24543
Room: S2.53

Research supervisory interests: Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Epistemology, Early 20th Century Analytic Philosophy

Keith Ansell-Pearson

Professor of Philosophy

Director of the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy

Course Convenor: MA Continental Philosophy

Email: k dot j dot ansell-pearson at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 2327
Room: S2.44

Sameer Bajaj

Assistant Professor

PPE Admissions Tutor

Email: Sameer dot Bajaj at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.39

Research Interests: Political and moral philosophy

Miguel Beistegui

Honorary Professor of Philosophy

Research interests: '20th Century German & French Philosophy (Heidegger, Deleuze and Foucault); philosophy and literature (Proust, metaphor and tragedy); the ethics and politics of desire

Andrei Bespalov

WIRL COFUND Fellow

Email: Andrei dot Bespalov at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.63

Research Interests: Moral and Political philosophy, political epistemology, theories of justice and public reason.

Stephen Butterfill

Professor of Philosophy

Course Convenor: Philosophy and Psychology

Secretary: UG Examinations

Email: s dot butterfill at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: 44 (0)24 7652 2085
Room: S2.48

Research supervisory interests: Philosophy of Mind, Psychology

Lucy Campbell

Assistant Professor

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Email: Lucy dot Campbell at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.69

Ext: 22965

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind and Action; Epistemology

On Fellowship Research Leave 2020

Quassim Cassam

Professor of Philosophy

Director of Research

Email: q dot cassam at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: 44 (0)24 76522 953
Room: S2.45

Research supervisory interests: Kant, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind

Mat Coakley

Teaching Fellow

PG Examinations Secretary (2020/21)

Email: M dot Coakley at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.54

Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Economics

Andrew Cooper

Assistant Professor

Director of Communications; Organiser of Department Colloquiua (2020/21)

Email: andrew dot j dot cooper at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.41

Diarmuid Costello

Professor of Philosophy

Course Convenor: MA Philosophy and the Arts

Co-Director: CRPLA

Lead: NSS and TEF Preparations

Email: D dot Costello at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: S2.47

Research supervisory interests: Post-Kantian Continental Aesthetics, Contemporary Analytic Philosophy of Art, Recent Theories of Art and Photography

Adina Covaci

Teaching Fellow

Email: Adina dot Covaci at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.43

Research Interests: Moral Philosophy, and the intersection of Ethics, Metaethics, and Social Epistemology.

Thomas Crowther

Reader in Philosophy

Lead: Athena Swan Re-submission

Email: t dot crowther at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: S2.52

Research supervisory interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology and, Aristotle (specifically topics in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind and Action).

Walter Dean

Associate Professor

Course Convenor: Maths and Philosophy

Email: W dot H dot Dean at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: 44 (0)24 7615 0966
Room: S2.70

Research supervisory interests: Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Logic, Mathematical Logic

Away from the Department on a Humboldt Fellowship January 2021-July 2022

Benedict Eastaugh

Teaching Fellow

Email: Benedict.Eastaugh@warwick.ac.uk

Room: TBC

Research Interests: Mathematical and Philosophical Logic; Philosophy of Mathematics; Social Choice Theory; Formal Epistemology

Naomi Eilan

Professor of Philosophy

Course Convenor: MPhil Philosophy

Director: WMA

Email: n dot eilan at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: 44 (0)24 7652 2136
Room: S.2.60

Research supervisory interests: Consciousness and self consciousness; philosophy of mind; philosophy of psychology; metaphysics; Wittgenstein

Benjamin Ferguson

Director, PPE

Email: Benjamin dot Ferguson at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S1.43

Research Interests: Moral and Political Philosophy

Christoph Hoerl

Professor of Philosophy

Deputy Head of Department and Director of Education (2020/21)

Course Convenor: UG Philosophy

Email: C dot Hoerl at warwick dot ac dot uk
Phone: +44 (0)24 7652 2476
Room: S2.51

Research supervisory interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Epistemology, Metaphysics

Stephen Houlgate

Professor of Philosophy

Senior Tutor

Email: Stephen dot Houlgate at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 3320
Room: S2.46

Research supervisory interests: Kant, Hegel, German Idealism; Nietzsche, Derrida; History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Spinoza)

David James

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies 2020/21

Email: D dot N dot James at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: S2.72

Research supervisory interests: German Idealism, Rousseau, Political Philosophy

Eileen John

Associate Professor

Lead: Student Wellbeing and Chair of Equality and Welfare Committee (2020/21)

Co-Director: CRPLA

Email: eileen dot john at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: 44 (0)24 7657 2527
Room: S2.59

Research supervisory interests: Philosophy of literature, aesthetics, art and values

Massimiliano Lacertosa

Teaching Fellow

Email: massimiliano dot lacertosa at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.50

Research Interests: Ethics, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Chinese Philosophy, Continental Philosophy and the issues of comparative analysis.

Hemdat Lerman

Teaching Fellow

Room: S2.64

Associate Fellow of the Consciousness and Self-Consciousness Research Centre

Organiser: Postgraduate Warwick Mind and Action (WMA) Seminar

Email: h.lerman@warwick.ac.uk

Daniele Lorenzini

Assistant Professor

Deputy Director, Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy

PhD Core Seminar Co-ordinator

Email: Daniele dot Lorenzini at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.58

Research Interests: Post-Kantian European Philosophy (especially 20th-Century French Philosophy), Moral and Political Philosophy, Ordinary Language Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

Richard Moore

Senior Research Fellow

Email: Richard dot Moore at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.49

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Language and Psychology

Matthew Nudds

Professor of Philosophy

Chair of Social Sciences Faculty

Email: matthew dot nudds at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44(0)24 7652 2581
Room: S1.51

Research supervisory interests: Philosophy of Mind and Psychology, Philosophy of Perception (especially the senses), Philosophy of Language

James Openshaw

Postdoctoral Researcher (funded by an Analysis Trust and Mind Association Award until 2021)

Email: James dot Openshaw at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.63

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind; epistemology and philosophy of language; memory and singular thought.

Fabienne Peter

Professor of Philosophy

Email: F dot Peter at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: S2.57

Research supervisory interests: moral and political philosophy, philosophy of economics

On Research Leave 2021

Peter Poellner

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

Research supervisory interests: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Value, Philosophy of Mind, Husserl, Nietzsche

Johannes Roessler

Associate Professor

Lead: Professional Development

Student Teaching Assistant Co-ordinator

Email: J.Roessler@warwick.ac.uk
Tel: 44 (0)24 7652 2503
Room: S2.55

Research supervisory interests: Epistemology, philosophy of mind and action (esp. perceptual knowledge, self-knowledge, rational explanation)

Karen Simecek

Associate Professor

Director of Student Experience and Progression

Convenor: Undergraduate SSLC

Email: K dot D dot Simecek at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44(0)24 7652 4321
Room: S2.61

Research interests: Philosophy of Literature (esp. poetry), Aesthetics, Moral Reasoning and the Emotions

On Maternity Leave from March 2020

Tom Sorell

Professor of Politics and Philosophy

Email: t dot e dot sorell at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44(0)2476 528 031
Room: B1.41
Advice and Feedback Hours: Tuesdays 11am

Research supervisory interests: Descartes; Hobbes; historiography of early modern philosophy; naturalism; moral theory and applied ethics; contemporary liberal political philosophy; history of political philosophy; the relation between philosophy and natural science

Kirk Surgener

Director of Student Experience and Progression (PPE)

Email: K.A.Surgener@warwick.ac.uk

Research supervisory interests: political, moral, legal as well as metaethical questions and issues in the philosophy of language

Patrick Tomlin

Reader in Philosophy

Director of Politics, Philosophy, and Law (PPL)

Email: Patrick dot Tomlin at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel: 44 (0)24 7657 5898

Room: S2.43

Research interests: Political, Moral, and Legal Philosophy

Daniel Vanello

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Email: D dot Vanello dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.63

Research Interests: Ethics and the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology; Moral Understanding, with particular focus on the emotions, social interaction and communication.

Barney Walker

Acting Admissions Tutor and Teaching Fellow

Email: B dot Walker dot 3 at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.64

Research interests: Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind

David Bather Woods

Acting Director of Student Experience and Progression (from March 2020)

Tutor: Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment

Lead: WP and Outreach

Email: d dot woods at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.38

Research Interests: Schopenhauer, pessimism, evil, punishment

Firat Akova

Thesis Title: 'Effective Altruism and Extreme Poverty'

Email: F dot Akova at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Patrick Tomlin

Alex Andreou

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: A dot Andreou at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Miguel de Beistegui and Guy Longworth

Adam Bainbridge

Thesis Title: 'How Kant’s Third Critique addresses Worries within Contemporary Visual Arts Criticism'

Email: A dot Bainbridge at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Diarmuid Costello

Christine Battersby

Emeritus Reader

Email: C.Battersby@warwick.ac.uk

Leonello Bazzurro Gambi

Thesis Title: 'Poetics of Assemblage: The Experimental Poetry of Juan Luis Martinez'

Email: L dot Bazzurro-Gambi at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Eileen John and Daniel Katz

Jack Blaiklock

Thesis Title: 'Intersubjectivity and the Phenomenology of Value'

Email: J dot Blaiklock at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Fabienne Peter and Naomi Eilan

Diogo Carneiro

Thesis Title: 'Intersubjective Objectivity in Social Justice'

Email: D dot Carneiro at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Fabienne Peter

Matt Chennells

Thesis Title: Common knowledge, uncertainty and commitment in shared activity

Email: M dot Chennells at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Steve Butterfill and Nicholas Chater

Jonathan Clarke-West

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: Jonathan dot Clarke-West at warwick dot co dot uk

Supervisors: Miguel de Beistegui

Maria Corrado

Thesis Title: 'Audition and the World'

Email: M dot Corrado at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Matthew Nudds

Kate Williams Courage

Academic Support Librarian (Philosophy)

Email: k dot courage at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel: +44 (0)24 765 28151

Victoria Cox

Senior Programmes Co-ordinator

Email: victoria dot cox at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel: +44(0)24 765 73312

I co-ordinate the delivery of taught programmes in Philosophy, with particular responsibility for Undergraduate Degree programmes. This includes being the first point of contact for Undergraduate enquiries and oversight of essay and examination processes.

Chris Earley

Thesis Title: The Cognitive Value of Contemporary Art

Email: Chris dot Earley at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Quassim Cassam and Diarmuid Costello

Brigid Evans

Thesis Title: 'Making Monsters: Iagoian Injustice and Epistemic Abuse'

Email: Brigid dot Evans at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Fabienne Peter and Matthew Clayton

Bernardo Ferro

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: Bernardo dot Ferro at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: David James and Andrew Cooper

Bill Fulford

Director of Philosophy and Mental Health, Warwick Medical School

Email: k dot w dot m dot fulford at warwick dot ac dot uk

Karolos Galazoulas

Thesis Title: 'Nietzsche's Ethical Pragmatism'

Email: K dot Galazoulas at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Keith Ansell-Pearson

Simon Gansinger

Thesis Title: 'The Principles of Sovereignty: Legal Unity and the Normative Conditions of Legal Change'

Email: Simon dot Gansinger at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: David James and Sameer Bajaj

Jacinto Gemora

Thesis Title: 'Escaping (with) Identity: Derrida, Deleuze and Identity Politics'

Email: Jacinto dot Gemora at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Stephen Houlgate and Keith Ansell-Pearson

Michele Giavazzi

Thesis Title: 'Rule of the Knowers: Epistocracy's Challenge to Democratic Theory'

Email: M dot Giavazzi at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Fabienne Peter

William Gildea

Thesis Title: Creatures of Welfare: A Theory of the Moral Status of Humans and Animals

Email: William dot Gildea at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Patrick Tomlin and Victor Tadros

Raffaele Grandoni

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: Raffaele dot Grandoni at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Daniele Lorenzini, Keith Ansell-Pearson and Stuart Elden

Daniel Griffin

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: Daniel dot Griffin at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Eileen John and Massimiliano Lacertosa

Emily Hargreaves

Departmental Administrator

(Research, Teaching & Learning)

Email: E dot Hargreaves at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.71a

Tel: +44 (0)24 765 22320

Johan Heemskerk

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: J dot Heemskerk at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Stephen Butterfill and Guy Longworth

Jae Hetterley

Thesis Title: 'Heidegger's Kant: Towards a Transcendental Phenomenological Ontology'

Email: J dot Hetterley at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Diarmuid Costello and Miguel de Beistegui

Samuel Honsbeek

Thesis Title: 'The Invention of Knowing: On Nietzsche's Genetic Approach to Epistemology'

Email: S dot Honsbeek at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Keith Ansell-Pearson

Susanna Jackman

PPE Academic Administrator

Email: ppeoffice at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S1.45-47

Tel: +44 (0) 2476 575577

I have day-to-day responsibility for the administrative operations of the PPE and PPL programmes, developing and managing the necessary systems and procedures for these multi-departmental degree programmes. I provide input to the development of financial, HR and other strategies in order to provide a comprehensive administrative service for staff and students.

Dino Jakusic

Sessional Teacher

Email: Dino dot Jakusic at warwick dot ac dot uk

Daz Kittendorf

IT Manager for Philosophy, PAIS and Sociology

Email: Daryl dot Kittendorf at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel: +44 (0) 24765 75747

Room: D1.27

Tristan Kreetz

Thesis Title: 'The Constitution of Consciousness'

Email: T dot Kreetz at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Thomas Crowther

Fraser Logan

Thesis Title: Honesty & Obedience: Nietzsche on the Preconditions of Freedom

Email: Fraser dot Logan at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Keith Ansell-Pearson and Peter Poellner

Giulia Lorenzi

Thesis Title: Is music perception special? An analysis of the varieties of auditory perception

Email: Giulia dot Lorenzi at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Thomas Crowther and Matthew Nudds

Gianluca Lorenzini

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: G dot Lorenzini at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Diarmuid Costello and Eileen John

Michael Luntley

Professor of Philosophy

Email: michael dot luntley at warwick dot ac dot uk

Research supervisory interests: Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Thought, Metaphysics of Reasons and Values

Giulia Luvisotto

Thesis Title: 'A Wide View of Responsibilities for Attitudes'

Email: G dot Luvisotto at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Johannes Roessler

Judith McAllister

Admissions officer (PG): Politics and International Studies and Philosophy

(Monday and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am-12pm)

Room: S1.54

Tel: 02476 573 289

Email: j dot mcallister at warwick dot ac dot uk

I am responsible for the processing and selection of formal applications to PAIS PG Taught Programmes. I also have oversight of the processing of the Philosophy PG Taught Programme and Philosophy Research applications, as well as PAIS PG Research applications. Additionally, I undertake various other processes relating to scholarship selection and postgraduate mobility.

Zehao Miao

Thesis Title: 'Kant and Hegel on Reason and Nature'

Email: Z dot Miao dot 2 at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Stephen Houlgate and David James

David Miller

Emeritus Reader

Email: d.w.miller@warwick.ac.uk

Kieran Moore

IT Support Officer for Philosophy, PAIS and Sociology

Email: Kieran dot Moore at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel: +44 (0) 24761 50264

Room: D1.27

Robert Moseley

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: R dot Moseley dot 2 at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Keith Ansell Pearson

Adam Neal

Thesis Title: 'Social Poverty'

Email: Adam dot Neal at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Eileen John and Patrick Tomlin

Chenwei Nie

Thesis Title: 'Experience, Reasoning and Delusion'

Email: C dot Nie dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Johannes Roessler

Filip Niklas

Thesis Title: 'Freedom's Negativity: Hegel's Logical Concept of Self-Determination''

Email: F dot Niklas at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Stephen Houlgate

Chris Noonan

Thesis Title: 'Assessing the Significance of Evolutionary Debunking: Arguments Against Moral Realism'

Email: C.Noonan@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisor: Fabienne Peter

Andrew Paull

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: Andrew dot Paull at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: David James and Andrew Cooper

Camilla Pitton

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: Camilla dot Pitton at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Daniele Lorenzini, David James and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa

Ahilleas Rokni

Thesis Title: 'Ontology and Reality: What is the Structural Relationship Between Hegel's Logic and His Realphilosophie?'

Email: A dot Rokni at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Stephen Houlgate

Lorenzo Serini

IATL/IAS Early Career Teaching Fellow (until July 2021)

PhD Thesis Title: 'Nietzsche's Idiosyncratic Scepticism'

Email: L.Serini@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisor: Keith Ansell-Pearson

Jaideep Shah

Thesis Title: 'Immanence in Hegel and Deleuze'

Email: J.Shah.1@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisors: Stephen Houlgate and Keith Ansell-Pearson

Jack Shardlow

Teaching Assistant

Email: J.Shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

Clare Simpson

PA to Head of Department

Email: Clare dot Simpson at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room S2.66

Tel: 02476 150816

I provide administrative support for the Head of Department. I also communcate news and information both internally and externally, and ensure that events, including lectures and seminars, are promoted as widely as possible through the Departmental website and by other means.

Normal working hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00am-3.30pm

Jacob Sipes

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: Jacob dot Sipes at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisors: Stephen Butterfill and TBC

Chloe Stamper

PPE and PPL Programme Officer

Email: ppeoffice at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S1.45-47

I provide administrative support for both multi-departmental undergraduate degrees: Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) and Politics, Philosophy and Law (PPL). I am the first point of contact for prospective students, current students and staff.

Shaun Stevenson

Thesis Title: 'Positively Dead: An Evaluation of Death in Deleuze'

Email: Shaun.Stevenson@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisor: Keith Ansell-Pearson

Zak Stinchcombe

Thesis Title: 'What Makes Bad Books Good? The Relationship Between Ethical and Aesthetic Value'

Email: Z.Stinchcombe@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisor: Eileen John

Gabor Tahin

Thesis Title: 'Other Times II: An Instrumentalist Approach to Temporality'

Email: Gabor dot Tahin at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Thomas Crowther

Kerry Law

Programmes Officer

Email: pgphilsec at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel: +44 (0)24 761 50522

I co-ordinate the delivery of taught and research programmes in Philosophy, with particular responsibility for postgraduate degree programmes. I am the first point of contact for prospective postgraduate candidates, managing queries and arranging viva examinations.

Sarah Taylor

Finance Co-ordinator

Email: sarah dot j dot taylor at wawick dot ac dot uk

Tel: +44 (0)24 765 23421

Federico Testa

Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, and Sessional Teacher

Email: f.testa@warwick.ac.uk

Maureen Tod

PPE Programme Administrator

Email: ppeoffice@warwick.ac.uk

Room: S1.45-47

Tel: +44 (0)24 765 22582

I provide secretarial and administrative services and support for this unique mulit-departmental undergraduate degree. I am the main point of contact for students to assist in guiding them through their studies.

Roger Trigg

Emeritus Professor

Email: R.H.Trigg@warwick.ac.uk

Alex Underwood

Thesis Title: 'Subject and Subjection'

Email: A.Underwood@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisor: Stephen Houlgate and Miguel de Beistegui

Kartik Upadhyaya

Thesis Title: 'Why Hypocrisy is Wrong'

Email: K.Upadhyaya@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisor: Kimberley Brownlee and Victor Tadros

Theofano Vasilopoulou

Thesis Title: TBC

Email: Theofano.Vasilopoulou@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisors: Miguel de Beistegui

Martin Warner

Associate Fellow of the Department and of the Centre for Research in Philosophy

Email: martin.warner@warwick.ac.uk

Simon Wimmer

Thesis Title: 'Reflections on Knowledge and Belief'

Email: S dot B dot Wimmer at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Guy Longworth

Mert Yirmibes

Thesis Title: 'Hegel's Treatment of Modality in the Context of Contemporary Modal Metaphysics'

Email: M dot Yirmibes at warwick dot ac dot uk

Supervisor: Stephen Houlgate