Cardiff School of English Communication and Philosophy

Philosophy Research Group

Director of Research: Dr Jonathan Webber

Director of Postgraduate Studies: Dr Peter Sedgwick

Philosophy at Cardiff is a vibrant research community working across the full range of philosophical topics and rooted equally in the analytic and continental traditions of Western thought.

Alongside purely academic research, Cardiff continues its tradition of applying philosophy to issues of concern to the general public.

The Philosophy Research Group is home to a large and lively postgraduate community that includes full-time students aiming at academic careers and part-time students undertaking research within the context of established professional lives.

In addition to individual research activity, Philosophy at Cardiff
involves the following collaborative projects:

Centre for Applied Ethics

The Centre for Applied Ethics aims to facilitate research in and promote public interest in Applied Ethics. It is home of the peer refereed journals Health Care Analysis, Bioethics and Genomics and Society and Policy.

Full details of the Centre for Applied Ethics.

Research Network on Philosophy of Mind

An international collaborative network with a distinctive focus on accounts of the mind as embedded, embodied, enactive, and extended.

Full details of the Philosophy of Mind research network.

AHRC Project: Reading Sartre on Phenomenology and Existentialism

This project brings together leading academics from the disciplines of Philosophy, French Studies, and Psychology, to discuss the philosophical writings of Jean-Paul Sartre in his early, ‘existentialist’ phase. Their papers will be published as a Routledge book in 2010.

Full details of the AHRC project: Reading Sartre

Philosophy of Perception Workshop Series

Two workshops per year at which leading UK Philosophers discuss their work in progress on issues in Philosophy of Perception.

Full details of the Philosophy of Perception workshop series.

Visiting Speakers Seminar Series

Fortnightly seminars organised in conjuction with the Royal Institute of Philosophy (Cardiff branch)

Research Seminars

CESAGEN

Cesagen’s main objective is to investigate the economic and social
factors that shape natural knowledge in genomics and other life
sciences. Cesagen is a collaborative research centre based at the
universities of Lancaster and Cardiff.

Full details of Cesagen research centre.