Professor David Owen FBA

Post-Kantian social and political philosophy, especially Nietzsche, Foucault and the Frankfurt School. Problems of membership and migration in global political society, especially statelessness and refugees and forced displacement
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

University of Southampton Professor of Social and Political Philosophy

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Lord Nick Stern of Brentford FBA

India; climate change; economic development and growth; economic theory; economics; government; public policy and the role of the state and economies in transition;tax reform

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Professor Adrian Favell FBA

International migration and mobilities; comparative citizenship, multiculturalism and immigration politics; sociology of the EU, particularly free movement and cosmopolitanism; urban studies; political demography; post-growth cultures; Japanese contemporary art and architecture

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Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah FBA

The philosophy of mind and language, of race and racism, and of literature and culture; ethics (including the role of experiment); honour; idealisation and ideals; social identity; African and African-American intellectual history.

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