People

UCL has one of the largest philosophy departments in the UK, with research strengths in many areas.

Academic

You can also find a list of our staff, by area of specialisation, on the Research page. Here, they are listed alphabetically (by role).

Academic permanent staff

Dr Simona Aimar: Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics, Semantics
Dr Tim Button: Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mathematics, Metaphysics
Dr Nilanjan Das: Epistemology, Indian Philosophy
Dr Luke Fenton-Glynn: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
Prof Sebastian Gardner: Aesthetics, German Idealism, 19th-century German Philosophy, Kant
Dr Amanda Greene: Ethics, Legal Philosophy, Plato, Political Philosophy
Dr Ulrike Heuer: Philosophy of Action, Ethics
Dr Joe Horton: Ethics, Political Philosophy
Prof John Hyman: Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Art, Epistemology, Ethics, Wittgenstein
Prof Mark Eli Kalderon: Ancient philosophy (Aristotle & Epidocles), Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Colour
Dr Douglas Lavin: Philosophy of Action, Ethics, History of Ethics
Dr Fiona Leigh: Ancient Philosophy (particularly Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind)
Dr Rory Madden: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
Prof Véronique Munoz-Dardé: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Rawls, Rousseau
Prof Lucy O'Brien: Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Emotion, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
Dr Lavinia Picollo: Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mathematics, Metaphysics
Dr Sarah Richmond: Ethics, Sartre
Prof Daniel Rothschild: Philosophy of Language, Linguistic Semantics
Dr Robert Simpson: Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Social Epistemology
Dr Tom Stern: Aesthetics, 19th-century German Philosophy
Dr Han van Wietmarschen: Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy
Prof James Wilson: Normative Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Philosophy of Public Policy
Prof José Zalabardo: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophical Semantics, Wittgenstein

Research fellows

D r Merrick Anderson: Ancient Philosophy (particularly Plato's moral and political philosophy)
Dr Alexander Greenberg: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Legal Philosophy
Kacper Kowalczyk: Decision Theory, Ethics, Metaphysics
Dr James Nguyen: Philosophy of Science

Associate Lecturers

Dr Owen Griffiths: Logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics
Dr Richard Healey: Moral, Political, Legal Philosophy
Dr Rory Phillips: German Idealism, Philosophy of Religion
Dr Ben Sorgiovanni: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Wittgenstein, Ethics
Dr Saloni de Souza: Ancient Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy of Medicine, Metaphysics

Affiliated academic staff

Dr Richard Breheny (Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences)
Prof Robyn Carston (Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences)
Prof Sarah Edwards (Dept of Science & Technology Studies)
Dr Nathan Klinedinst (Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences)
Prof George Letsas (Faculty of Laws)
Dr Saladin D Meckled-Garcia (Dept of Political Science)
Prof David J Pym (Dept of Computer Science and the Alan Turing Institute)
Dr Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (Institute of Advanced Studies)
Prof Philip Schofield (Faculty of Laws)
Dr Yasutada Sudo (Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences)

Honorary & Emeritus

Prof Rachel Barney (Visiting Professor)
Prof Timothy Clarke (Honorary Senior Lecturer)
Prof Malcolm Budd (Emeritus Grote Professor)
Prof Marcus Giaquinto (Honorary Emeritus)
Prof Ted Honderich (Emeritus Professor)
Dr Nils Kürbis (Honorary Research Fellow)
Prof Michael Martin (Honorary Professor)
Prof Paul Snowdon (Emeritus Professor)
Dr Barry Stocker (Honorary Senior Research Associate)
Prof Nick Zangwill (Honorary Research Fellow)
Dr Arnold Zuboff (Honorary Senior Research Associate)

Administrative

Administrative staff

The Department Office is located in room 101 of 19 Gordon Square and is open for student enquiries 10-12 and 2-4pm.

Department Manager
Sophie Grant
s ophie.grant@ucl.ac.uk

Graduate Administrator
Richard Edwards
r.edwards@ucl.ac.uk

Undergraduate Administrator
Emily Wilkes
e.wilkes@ucl.ac.uk

BA Teaching and Learning Administrator
Joe Tilley
joseph.tilley@ucl.ac.uk

BA Student Adviser
Karthik Sundaram
k.sundaram@ucl.ac.uk

Academic staff by administrative role

Head of Department: Prof Daniel Rothschild
Departmental Tutor (Undergraduates): Prof José Zalabardo (Term 1) / Dr Nilanjan Das (Terms 2&3)
Departmental Graduate Tutor (Taught students): Dr Rory Phillips
Departmental Graduate Tutor (Research students): Dr Han van Wietmarschen
Admissions Tutor (BA): Dr Sarah Richmond
Outreach /Widening Participation Officer: Dr Lavinia Picollo
Affiliate Tutor: TBC
Placement Coordinator (Research Students): Dr Fiona Leigh
Chair of Examiners: Dr Joe Horton
Chair of Departmental Teaching Committee: Dr Joe Horton
Chair of Departmental Staff Student Consultative Committee (department chair): Prof Daniel Rothschild
E-Learning Champion: Richard Edwards
NSS Liaison Officer: Emily Wilkes
Inclusion Lead: Sophie Grant
Green Champion: Sophie Grant

Students

PhD students

Showkat Ali: Ethics, Political Philosophy
Euan Allison
Thomas Avery
George Britten-Neish
Christabel Cane
Lucas Chebib
Chandler Clark
Nicholas Currie: Early Modern Philosophy, Kant, History of Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Representationalism
Catherine Dale: Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Feminist Philosophy, (Later) Wittgenstein
Luca Dondoni
Will Eckersley
Sepehr Ehsani
Taylor Enoch: Aesthetics, Neuroesthetics, Phenomenology
Lawrence Evans
Jessica Fischer
Josh Goh
Alice Harberd
Lizzy Holt
Jack Hume
Tasnim Ismail
Kirstine La Cour
Antonio Lao
Chris Leak
Kim Leontiev
Michael Markunas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception and Neuroscience
Alex Murphy
Oushinar Nath
Pat Nogoy
Bárbara Núñez de Cáceres Gonzalez
Filippa Ronquist
Rebecca Rowson
Kenta Sekine
David Sommer
Leora Sung
Jean-Philippe Thomas
Michael Thorne
Nikhil Venkatesh
Victor Weber
Fiona Whittingham
Tom Williams

MPhil Students

Samuel Abel
Liam Barer
Daniel Beatty
Rosa Bell
Dominic Bowles
James Brassington
James Cornish
Laura Custers
Benjamin Davis
Beatrice Doidge
Thomas Forster
India Griffiths
Adam Haddour
Daniel Hague
Matthew Harris
Karri Heikkinen
Ömer Kayacı
Dilara Küçük
Hongyi Li
Harry Long
Katie Lowe
Joshua Mellor
Jelena Milosavljevic
Alba Miriello
Dylan Ngan
Asia Sakchatchawan
Achilleas Sarantaris
Erica Stanley
Helena Ward
Liane Wergen
Yiran Yang