Areas of research and graduate supervision in the Open University Philosophy Department
Alex Barber:
Ethics (including metaethics and applied ethics), epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of linguistics, some topics in philosophy of science.
Chris Belshaw:
Environmental philosophy; philosophy and animals; issues in life and death (including bioethics, population ethics, happiness and the meaning of life); value theory; personal identity.
Timothy Chappell:
Normative ethics, applied ethics, metaethics; ancient philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle; epistemology; philosophy of religion; philosophy of mind and action.
Cristina Chimisso:
History of philosophy, especially twentieth century; history of philosophy of science, especially twentieth century; philosophy of science in the French tradition; historical epistemology; historiography; sociology of scientific knowledge.
Derek Matravers:
Aesthetics; in particular, the philosophy of fiction and narrative. Also moral and political philosophy.
Jon Pike:
Political philosophy, and moral philosophy as it impinges on the political. Within political philosophy; Marx, Aristotle, egalitarianism and social justice, political obligation, analytical accounts of discrimination, and applied ethics and political action.
Carolyn Price:
Predominantly the philosophy of mind, especially theory of content (including teleosemantics), rationality, emotions and moral psychology. Also a broader interest in normativity; her work on emotion bears on specific questions in ethics and aesthetics. She has also written on metaphysics, especially in connection with functions and functional explanations.
Nigel Warburton:
Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Photography, Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Free Expression, Philosophy and the Internet, Atheism.
Robert Wilkinson:
Comparative aesthetics, especially if the comparisons involve Japan or China; the philosophy of Nishida Kitarō; the philosophy of Santayana.
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