Current Vacancies in the UCL Philosophy Department

1) Readership in Philosophy of Language

2) Research Associate in the Philosophy of Race

How to Apply

Applicants should register and submit an application online via: www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs by the closing date.

Reference Numbers (which link to the UCL jobs notice) are below:

• Readership Philosophy of Language - Ref:1326096
• Research Associate in the Philosophy of Race - Ref 1328185

If there are any queries please contact the Professor Paul Snowdon, Head of Department,  by email at p.snowdon@ucl.ac.uk

Additional Information

UCL

UCL is the largest of the London universities. UCL is consistently rated as one of the top multi-faculty universities, both in the UK and in the world, and has an annual turnover in excess of £500m.

UCL is one of the UK’s premier research institutions. It has immense research strength across all areas and is developing numerous inter-disciplinary research ventures. Located in the Bloomsbury area, UCL has excellent facilities and the research resources available in this part of London (the British Library, for example) are unrivalled in the UK.

The Philosophy Department

The Department is housed principally in 19 Gordon Square, a mid-19th century house built by Thomas Cubitt, which is located in the heart of Bloomsbury. The Department currently has 14 full-time, and two part-time, permanent teaching staff, one full-time temporary staff, and two departmental administrators.

For administrative purposes, the Department is located in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Academic links are not bound by the location in this particular Faculty, and academic staff have links with colleagues in many other departments in UCL.
UCL is widely considered to have one of the leading philosophy departments in the UK. It has particular research strengths in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of perception, metaphysics, epistemology, moral and political philosophy, and Kantian and post-Kantian continental philosophy.

In the UK’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the UCL Philosophy Department obtained the highest percentage (45%) of research activity rated 4* (‘world leading’) of any philosophy department in the country. The department’s overall quality profile was 45% at 4*, 30% at 3*, 20% at 2* and 10% at 1*.

(see: www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2008/dec/18/rae-2008-philosophy)

Academic Staff and Research Interests

• Professor Sebastian Gardner (Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Kant, Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy)
• Professor Marcus Giaquinto (Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language and Logic, Plato)
  
• Dr. Mark Eli Kalderon (Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Meta-Ethics)
  
• Dr. Fiona Leigh (Ancient Philosophy, Ethics)
  
• Dr. Rory Madden (Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology)
  
• Professor Michael Martin (Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language, Kant)
  
• Professor Véronique Munoz-Dardé (Political Philosophy, Ethics)
  
• Dr. Lucy O'Brien (Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, The First Person and Subjectivity, Political Philosophy)
  
• Professor Michael Otsuka (Political Philosophy, Ethics, Freedom of the Will)
  
• Professor Christopher Peacocke (Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics) In residence at UCL May-July each year.
  
• Dr. Ian Phillips (Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, metaphysics and epistemology)
  
• Dr. Sarah Richmond (Phenomenology, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychoanalysis)
  
• Professor Paul Snowdon (Philosophy of Mind, Perception, Personal Identity)
  
• Dr. Tom Stern (Continental Philosophy)
  
• Professor Jonathan Wolff (Political Philosophy, Ethics, Marx)
  
• Dr. José Zalabardo (Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Wittgenstein)

Administrative Staff

• Mr. Richard Edwards
• Mrs. Ann Higginson
  

Teaching and Learning

The Department teaches three UCL graduate degree programmes, and five undergraduate programmes.
The graduate programmes are the MA, M.Phil Stud and PhD. The Department has a thriving research student community, currently with around 40 research students. The department has a strong placement record: recent PhDs have secured posts at such places as Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, Manchester, Edinburgh, Reading, Keele, UCL School of Public Policy, York, Stirling and Roehampton (see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/alumni/placement-record.htm).
The undergraduate programmes are the Single-Subject degree in Philosophy and Combined studies with Economics, French, Greek, and History of Art.  The total annual undergraduate intake is about 50 students for the Single-Subject degree and about 15 for the Joint degrees. The Department also makes a number of its courses available to students in other UCL Departments.

Inquiries

Informal inquiries about the position may be made to Professor Paul Snowdon, Head of the Philosophy Department (p.snowdon@ucl.ac.uk), phone number 020 7679 3075.
Departmental webpage: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy
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