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Professor Katherine Hawley FBA

Metaphysics, including identity, time, parthood and social metaphysics; epistemology, including applied and social epistemology; ethics, including trust, distrust and trustworthiness
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2020
Year of birth
1971
Year of death
2021
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy

Last post

University of St Andrews Professor of Philosophy

Past appointments

University of St Andrews Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

University of St Andrews Lecturer

Newnham College, University of Cambridge Research Fellow

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Professor Helen Beebee FBA

Metaphysics of science, in particular causation, laws of nature and natural kinds; the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility; the epistemology of analytic philosophy

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Professor Simon Blackburn FBA

Ethics, including applied ethics, philosophy of the mind, philosophy of language and metaphysics

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Professor Helen Steward FBA

The metaphysics of agency and free will; causation and explanation; determinism, indeterminism and natural laws; minimal agents (e.g. plants and insects); the ontology of the mind.

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