REF 2021: Reducing Coercion in Psychiatric Care
The impact case study bears evidence of the contribution philosophical thinking can provide to improve psychiatric practice.
REF 2021: Managing Knowledge of Genetic Relatedness in Donor Conception
What kind of information should donor-conceived people be able to find out about their donor and donor-conceived siblings?
Life, Death and Meaning
Can we see the value in things only if they are fragile and bound to perish? Why should it be necessary for life to have not only a beginning, but also an end? Would that imply that for the world as a whole to have meaning, it too will have to end one day? And why should we need a final purpose, instead of an open-ended sequence of purposes to find meaning in life?
Philosophy and the Future
Our pioneering Philosophy and the Future research theme focuses on the ethical, political, social, metaphysical and spiritual implications of climate change, technological and scientific developments, and emerging forms of social and political interaction.
Philosophy in the World
The Department of Philosophy has a long and distinguished history of combining research excellence in core areas of philosophy with innovative work at the frontiers of the discipline as this intersects with matters of wider public concern.
Entrapment, Criminal Justice, and Ethics
What makes an act one of entrapment? Is entrapment morally permissible? If so, under what constraints? What are entrapment’s normative implications for practical ethics and for criminal justice?
Normative Implications of the Metaphysics of Extra-Corporeal Gestation
This project will use the current philosophical debate about the metaphysics of pregnancy, and technological developments in reproductive sciences, as springboards for discussing the normative consequences of how we fundamentally conceive of the relation between foster and gravida.
