School Postgraduate Taught Director, Programme Lead for five MA programmes and the MPhil B in Philosophy.

 

- Convenor of the M-level module in Philosophy of Cognitive Science.

- Teaching on the M-level module in Philosophy of Health and Happiness (convened by Heather Widdows) and on the Research Skills and Methods module for MA students (convened byYujin Nagasawa).

 

- Philosophy of Psychology (e.g. agency, rationality and self knowledge)

- Philosophy of Psychiatry (e.g. the nature of mental illness, status of psychiatry as a science)

- Empirically-informed Philosophy of Mind (e.g. theories of belief ascriptions, animal minds)

- Issues in Biomedical Ethics (e.g. animal rights, reproductive autonomy, death and immortality)

 

Please contact me directly if you are thinking of applying to the University of Birmingham for a place in our MA, MPhil or PhD programmes, and want to work with me on one of the areas listed above. It would be great if you could send me a short research proposal together with your informal inquiry.

 

 

 

NEW PROGRAMME: MA in the Philosophy of Health and Happiness founded and run by the Health and Happiness Research Cluster, now also on Twitter!