{"id":701,"date":"2017-06-22T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T11:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?page_id=701"},"modified":"2021-11-03T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:18:11","slug":"supervision-areas-in-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?page_id=701","title":{"rendered":"SUPERVISION AND RESEARCH INTERESTS IN PHILOSOPHY"},"content":{"rendered":"

This page is intended to help those interested in studying philosophy as a research student at the Open University identify a potential supervisor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Areas of research and graduate supervision in the Open University Philosophy Department<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alex Barber<\/a><\/strong>
\nEthics, including metaethics, normative, applied; ethical topics that overlap with other areas of philosophy, such as philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political philosophy.<\/p>\n

Dan Cavedon-Taylor<\/a><\/strong>
\nPhilosophy of mind and psychology, in particular perception and related sensory states; philosophy of art and aesthetics, in particular the visual arts and the nature of aesthetic judgment; social epistemology.<\/p>\n

Azita Chellappoo<\/strong><\/a>
\nPhilosophy of biology, medicine and science, in particular boundaries between the biological and the social, concepts of health and disease and the nature of cultural evolution; feminist philosophy; philosophy of race and decolonial theory.<\/p>\n

Sophie Grace Chappell<\/a><\/strong>
\nNormative ethics, applied ethics, metaethics; ancient philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle; epistemology; philosophy of religion; philosophy of mind and action; feminist philosophy and philosophy of gender.<\/p>\n

Cristina Chimisso<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory of philosophy, especially late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; French philosophy; history of philosophy of science; philosophy of science, especially in the French tradition; historical epistemology, historiography; sociology of scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n

Sean Cordell<\/a><\/strong>
\nMoral, social and political philosophy and their intersections; applied ethics; virtue ethics (ancient and contemporary); the ethics of social roles; the nature, agency and\/or morality of social groups and organisations.<\/p>\n

Manuel Dries<\/a><\/strong>
\nPost-Kantian European Philosophy, in particular 19th and 20th-century German and French philosophy; ethics; philosophy of mind.<\/p>\n

Derek Matravers<\/a><\/strong>
\nAesthetics: in particular, the philosophy of fiction and narrative, and the philosophy of conservation (that is, the conservation of artefacts rather than the conservation of nature).<\/p>\n

Jon Pike<\/a><\/strong>
\nPhilosophy of sport, including the ethics of doping and anti-doping, the definition, metaphysics and value of sport, and related issues in applied ethics; political philosophy; and moral philosophy as it impinges on the political.<\/p>\n

Mark Pinder<\/a><\/strong>
\nPhilosophy of language; philosophical methodology, especially conceptual engineering; epistemology; philosophical logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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