United Kingdom Ph.D. Programs

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified. Wiki Program Pages contain identical information to front-page listings, also unless otherwise specified.

Birkbeck, University of London

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• Robert Northcott // website 1, 2, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Philosophy of science, and especially the ‘special sciences’ such as biology and economics; metaphysics, especially the notions of causation and causal explanation; analysis of use of statistical techniques to measure causation, the place of causal explanation in evolutionary theory; role played by formal theory in economics (via website)

University of Bristol

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• Samir Okasha // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialities: evolutionary theory, levels of selection, population genetics, social evolution, rational choice
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes

University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science)

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• Tim Lewens // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophical bioethics

University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology)

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• John Dupre // website, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Particular interests include: biological classification, the relation of technical to everyday biological kinds and to traditional problems of essentialism; adaptationism and optimality; reductionism; indeterministic accounts of causality; evolution and the limitations of evolutionary psychology; and the biological basis of sex and gender. Also worked for several years on issues in the philosophy of economics (via website)
• Sabina Leonelli // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Data-Intensive Science and Practices of Data Sharing and Re-Use; Open Science and Open Data; The Regulatory Role and Epistemic Impact of Bioinformatics in Biology and Biomedicine; Bio-Ontologies; History and Epistemic Status of Model Organism Research; History, Philosophy and Sociology of Plant Biology; The Role of Embodied Knowledge and Skills in Scientific Understanding; Abstraction and Modelling Processes in Biology; Distributed Cognition and Division of Scientific Labor; Unity, Disunity and Integration in Science: Early American Pragmatism; Science Policy and the Globalisation and Political Economy of Scientific Research (via website)
• Staffan Muller-Wille // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: History and philosophy of systematics; history of heredity; history of race and kinship (via website)

King's College London

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• Matteo Mameli // website, PhilPapers
• Nick Shea // website, PhilPapers

Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion)

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• Brian Garvey // website, PhilPapers

University of Leeds

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• Gregory Radick // website 1, 2, PhilPapers

London School of Economics (Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method)

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• Jonathan Birch // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialities: Natural selection, evolution of social behaviour, evolutionary transitions, human evolution.
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes

University College London (Science and Technology Studies)

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• Phyllis Illari // website, PhilPapers

University of Oxford

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• Ellen Clarke // website 1, , 2, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Biological Individuality, Evolutionary Transitions, evolution of cooperation, natural selection, Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science