Research in the Department of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy research projects

Research Projects & Publications

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
--Socrates

The Department of Philosophy is a strong research department being currently ranked by the independent Philosophical Gourmet Report equal ninth overall among UK philosophy departments. We are also ranked joint 4th in the world for Philosophy of Art, and joint 8th in the world for Metaphysics.

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Featured projects

Mind & Narrative

Professor Gregorie Currie discusses whether literary claims of insight into mind and motivation are exaggerated.

»More information on Mind and Narrative available soon.

Philosophy of Sport

Professor Stephen Mumford asks "Why watch sport?"

» More information on the Philosophy of Sport available soon.

Ethics

Dr Uri Leibowitz ponders whether lying can sometimes be acceptable.

» More information on Ethics available soon.

» additional research projects in the Department of Philosophy

Research Publications and Expertise

We are home to the major journal, Analysis and number among our faculty an editor of Mind and Language and two members of the editorial board of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

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The guide can be searched by subject area - everything from narrative or sport to ethics or epistemology - or by using an expert's name.

Seminars and events

Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Event - Science, Art and the Sacred

Date: 27/06/2012
Location:: Leeds Art Gallery
Description: In collaboration with the Leeds Art Gallery, the AHRC funded project "Method in Philosophical Aesthetics: the challenge from the sciences" will be hosting a major public event on the relationship between science, art and religion on the evening of the 27th of June 2012.

Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference - Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art?

Date: 28 - 30/06/2012
Location:: Leeds Art Gallery
Description: An international conference in association with the University of Leeds, the University of Nottingham and the Royal Institute of Philosophy. The conference will involve speakers with a variety of perspectives, ranging from those with a good deal of enthusiasm for "empirical philosophy" to those more inclined to favour traditional, a priori approaches.

Reality Making: Exploring Fundamentals in Metaphysics

Date: 10 - 12/07/2012
Description: This conference will focus on recent debates in metaphysics surrounding questions of grounding, fundamentality, essentialism and the monism vs pluralism debate.

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