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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

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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Rae Langton FBA

Ethical aspects of speech act theory and social epistemology; metaphysics of properties; history of philosophy, especially Kant; free speech, hate speech and media ethics; feminist perspectives on pornography and objectification

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Professor David Papineau FBA

David Papineau has worked in many areas of philosophy, including scientific realism, representation, evolution and cognitive structure, consciousness, perception, physicalism, probability and natural kinds. He is currently completing a project arguing that statistical practice holds the key to the nature of causation. His ten books include Reality and Representation, Thinking about Consciousness, Philosophical Devices and The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience.

Professor David Papineau FBA

Professor Jonathan Wolff FBA

Political Philosophy, inequality, global health ethics, and values in public policy

Jonathan Wolff FBA (credit (credit the Blavatnik School of Government))

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