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 Claire Field: Epistemology, Ethics, Normativity
Dr Alexander Greenberg: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Legal Philosophy
Dr James Nguyen: Philosophy of Science

Teaching fellows

D r James Hutton: Kant, Moral Epistemology
Kacper Kowalczyk: Decision Theory, Ethics, Metaphysics
Rowan Mellor: Ethics, Political Philosophy
Rory Phillips: German Idealism, Philosophy of Religion
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 Sarah Broadie (Honorary 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 Gorden Square. The office is currently closed as our administrative staff are working remotely.

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

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

Undergraduate Programme Administrator
Ronan McCoy
ronan.mccoy@ucl.ac.uk

Academic staff by administrative role

Head of Department: Prof James Wilson (interim head whilst Prof Daniel Rothschild is on leave)
Departmental Tutor: Dr Robert Simpson
Departmental Graduate Tutor (Taught students): D r James Hutton
Departmental Graduate Tutor (Research students): Dr Ulrike Heuer
Admissions Tutor: Dr Sarah Richmond
Outreach /Widening Participation Officer: Dr Lavinia Picollo
Affiliate Tutor: Rowan Mellor
Careers Liaison Tutor: Dr Nilanjan Das
Chair of Examiners: Dr Joe Horton
Chair of Departmental Teaching Committee: Dr Joe Horton
Chair of Departmental Staff Student Consultative Committee (department chair): Prof James Wilson
E-Learning Champion: Richard Edwards
NSS Liaison Officer: Alex Velleley
Inclusion Lead: Dr Sarah Richmond

Students

PhD students

Naomi Alderson
Showkat Ali: Ethics, Political Philosophy
Euan Allison
Thomas Avery
Sebastien Bishop-Bennett
George Britten-Neish
Niels Christensen
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
Will Eckersley
Sepehr Ehsani
Taylor Enoch: Absurdism, Aesthetics, Existentialism, Metaphilosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Psychology
Jessica Fischer
Josh Goh
Lisa Grant
Tasnim Ismail
Charles Jansen
Kim Leontiev
Heejin Kwon
Kirstine La Cour
James Laing: Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
Chris Leak
Michael Markunas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception and Neuroscience
Rowan Mellor
Oushinar Nath
Pat Nogoy
Bárbara Núñez de Cáceres Gonzalez
David Olbrich: Philosophy of Action, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Normativity
Filippa Ronquist
Rebecca Rowson
Vittorio Sandri
Kenta Sekine
David Sommer
Leora Sung
Winnie Sung
Shunichi Takagi: Early Analytic Philosophy (esp. the Tractatus), Wittgenstein's Nachlass.
Nikhil Venkatesh
Victor Weber
Tom Williams

MPhil Students

Lea Bourguignon
Lisa Cernilogar
Cristina-Diana Craciun
Benjamin Davis
Kate Fisk
Alice Harberd
Matthew Harris
Lizzy Holt
Jack Hume
Tyler Leli
Hongyi Li
Joshua Mellor
Alba Miriello
Sjoerd Oppenheim
Riccardo Pellegrini
Elena Raimondi
Achilleas Sarantaris
Leonardo Serafini
Erica Stanley
Jean-Philippe Thomas
Albin van Latum
Anaïs White
Fiona Whittingham
Ying Xue