
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
Interests: philosophy of agency, moral philosophy, the nature of rationality, emotions, processes, causation, and the metaphysics of mind
Interests: 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 the 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: 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 (esp. 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, mind and representation; philosophy of psychology and the cognitive sciences; Thomas Reid and the Scottish Enlightenment
View ProfileInterests: John Henry Newman, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Ricoeur
View ProfileInterests: metaethics, moral psychology, moral epistemology, philosophy of disability, history of analytic philosophy
View WebsiteInterests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Psychology, Moral Psychology, Autism Spectrum Disorder
Interests: phenomenology (including the Brentano school), philosophy of value, philosophy of emotion, ethics and the philosophy of action
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Interests: philosophy of language and mind, joint action and communication
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Interests: Early Modern philosophy, contemporary (causation, grounding, philosophy of mind), and continental philosophy (esp. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and French phenomenology)
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Interests: philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and social epistemology
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Interests: political epistemology, voting ethics, epistemic democracy, virtue and vice epistemology, moral and epistemic responsibility, moral encroachment, testimony, epistemic justice
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Interests: gender and feminism in architectural practice, representations of architecture and their relationship to architectural experience
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Interests: ethics, rationality theory, philosophy of emotions, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and environmental ethics
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Interests: Intersection of epistemology, theory of normativity and philosophy of mind; the role of truth in political deliberation and democratic legitimacy; epistemic agency; the epistemology of political disagreement
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