Faculty of Philosophy: people

Academic and research staff, 2026–27
Name	Post and interests	Email
Professor Catriona Bell	Professor of Moral Philosophy; Dean of the Faculty Moral psychology, blame and forgiveness, Hume	c.bell@oxenfurt.uk
Professor Judith Demery	Professor of Philosophy; Director, Centre for the Ethics of Perception Perception, recording and privacy, the ethics of looking	j.demery@oxenfurt.uk
Professor Simon Leggatt	Professor of Metaphysics; Editor, Oxenfurt Philosophical Review Persistence, causation, the metaphysics of artefacts	s.leggatt@oxenfurt.uk
Professor Hana Novotná	Professor of the History of Philosophy Early modern philosophy, Descartes and his correspondents, women philosophers of the seventeenth century	h.novotna@oxenfurt.uk
Professor Laurence Ellerby	Professor of Ancient Philosophy Plato’s later dialogues, Aristotle’s ethics	l.ellerby@oxenfurt.uk
Dr Eleanor Haworth	Associate Professor; Director at Oxenfurt, Frothly–Oxenfurt Fellowship in Machine Ethics Moral status, philosophy of mind, animal minds	e.haworth@oxenfurt.uk
Dr Ewan Strachan	Associate Professor Philosophy of language, assertion, testimony	e.strachan@oxenfurt.uk
Dr Clare Kearney	Senior Lecturer Consent, medical ethics, philosophy of law	c.kearney@oxenfurt.uk
Dr Meera Nambiar	Lecturer Political philosophy, public reason, surveillance and the state	m.nambiar@oxenfurt.uk
Dr Lewis Ormerod	Lecturer in Logic Non-classical logics, vagueness	l.ormerod@oxenfurt.uk
Dr Beatriz Carvalho	Lecturer Aesthetics, the philosophy of photography	b.carvalho@oxenfurt.uk
Dr Tobi Adebayo	Lecturer Philosophy of science, models and idealisation	t.adebayo@oxenfurt.uk
Dr Megan Thwaite	Research Fellow, Centre for the Ethics of Perception Bystanders, consent and worn cameras	m.thwaite@oxenfurt.uk

The Faculty also has 27 part-time tutors and teaching fellows, who are listed on the Faculty intranet.

Emeritus professors

Emeritus professors
Name	Title	Interests
Professor Emiel Regis Terzieff-Godefroy	Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy	Lesser evils, the ethics of medicine, moral luck
Professor Ronald Sibthorpe	Emeritus Professor of Logic	Modal logic, the history of logic at Oxenfurt

Research students

71 research students in 2026–27, of whom 52 are full time. Their thesis titles are listed in the Faculty’s annual research report.

Faculty Office

Chapter House, Ferry Lane, Oxenfurt OF1 2BT · philosophy@oxenfurt.uk · 01632 960614