The Department hosts public lectures on behalf of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. We also run special research seminars, reading groups, workshops and conferences. We publish a regular bulletin, The Reasoner, to highlight the latest research on reasoning, inference and method.
Our lecturers are highly respected in their fields. All are active researchers who contribute to contemporary debates through their publications.
Our research is highly rated. Following the most recent Research Excellence Framework, the Times Higher Education ranked us 5th in the UK for research quality.
The Department is defined by two research clusters – Theoretical Reasoning and Practical Reasoning. Within these clusters, our staff research on a broad range of areas including:
The Department co-founded the Southern Normativity Group and founded The Reasoner, a monthly bulletin on reasoning and method.
Our staff have won prestigious awards from The Aristotelian Society, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Society of Aesthetics, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, British Logic Colloquium, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Mind Association.
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Lecturer in Philosophy Dr Graeme Forbes assesses the merits of the installation of a 10,000-year clock inside a mountain in Texas.
Philosophers from Kent and comedy writers met at the Aesthetics and Comedy conference to analyse what makes us laugh and why.
