Rowland Stout
Full Professor | Head of School
Interests: Philosophy of agency, moral philosophy, the nature of rationality, emotions, processes, causation, and the metaphysics of mind.
Some of our school members following a research day in the school April 2023
From left to right: Gillian Johnston, Dr Meredith Plug, Professor Maria Baghramian, Dr Tatjana vonSolodkoff, Dr Peter Larsen, Dr Lisa Foran, Dr Melanie Altanian, Dr Georgios Petropoulos, Helena McCann, Dr Silvia Ivani, Dr Danielle Petherbridge, Professor Maeve Cooke, Dr Tim Mooney, Profesor Jim O'Shea, Dr Jenny Knell, Dr John Maguire, Dr Ruth Boeker, Dr Elma Unnsteinsson, Dr Graham Clay, Dr Patrick Dawson
Interests: Philosophy of agency, moral philosophy, the nature of rationality, emotions, processes, causation, and the metaphysics of mind.
Interests: Philosophy of language; contemporary American philosophy (Putnam, Davidson, Rorty and Quine); relativism and rationality; pragmatism; philosophy of mind; cognitive science.
View Profileinterests: Early Modern Philosophy (especially Locke and his contemporaries), Early Modern Women Philosophers, Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy, History of Ethics, Personal Identity, Agency.
View ProfileInterests: History of Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages (12th-16th centuries), Metaphysics, theories of Soul, Neoplatonism, reception of Arabic thought in the Latin West, Averroism.
View ProfileInterests: German Idealism, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty), Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), French contemporary philosophy (Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault), Critical Theory, Jewish Philosophy.
View ProfileInterests: critical social theory; political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of religion, autonomy and authority, protest and resistance, critical theorizing in the Anthropocene
View ProfileInterests: ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of criminal law
View ProfileInterests: Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy
View ProfileInterests: Philosophy of time, especially theories of time and change; metaphysics of modality; philosophy of religion
View ProfileInterests: phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of translation, ethics, aesthetics, untranslatable, nationalism, memory
View ProfileInterests: philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and social epistemology
View ProfileInterests: phenomenology, the philosophy of subjectivity and deconstruction, with particular reference to Heidegger and Derrida; Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.
Interests: Social philosophy; history of German philosophy (especially German idealism and its successors); philosophy of history; psychoanalytic social criticism.
View ProfileInterests: History of Ideas in Eighteenth-century Ireland; feminist philosophy and gender theory; aesthetic, cultural and social theory; Buddhism in the West.
View ProfileInterests: Kant, Hume, Pragmatism, Perception, Sellars, History of Analytic Philosophy
Interests: Phenomenology, Social Philosophy, subjectivity and intersubjectivity; Critical Phenomenology (especially, race, perception, affect, habit); medical humanities; phenomenological approaches to dementia and mental illness; recognition theory
View ProfileInterests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, semantics, history of analytic philosophy
Interests: Ontology, Metaontology, Fiction, fictional characters, fictional names, value of death
Interests: Philosophy of perception, temporal experience, philosophy of mind, psychology and the cognitive sciences, Thomas Reid and the Scottish Enlightenment
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