UCL Department of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy,
University College London
Parent institution	University College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Head of Department	Daniel Rothschild
Website	Department of Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London.

Affiliated centres

The Keeling Centre for Ancient Philosophy (named after Stanley Victor Keeling)^[1]
Watling Archive (archive of John Leonard Watling's published and unpublished writings)^[2]

Rankings

The Philosophical Gourmet Report 2021-22 lists the department at 6th in the UK and 41st in the English-speaking world.^[3]

QS World University Rankings places the department at 7th in the UK and 20th globally in 2019.^[4]

Permanent Faculty

Simona Aimar
Nilanjan Das
Luke Fenton-Glynn
Sebastian Gardner
Amanda Greene
Ulrike Heuer
Joe Horton
John Hyman (Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic)
Mark Eli Kalderon
Douglas Lavin
Fiona Leigh
Rory Madden
Véronique Munoz-Dardé
Lucy O'Brien
Lavinia Picollo
Sarah Richmond
Daniel Rothschild (Head of Department)
Robert Simpson
Tom Stern
Han van Wietmarschen
James Wilson
José Zalabardo^[5]

Honorary Faculty

Tamsin De Waal
M.M. McCabe
Anthony Savile
Victor Verdejo
Jonathan Wolff
Arnold Zuboff^[6]

Emeritus Professors

Malcolm Budd
Marcus Giaquinto
Ted Honderich
Paul Snowdon^[7]

Notable alumni

Keith Simmons
David Conway
James Garvey
Momtazuddin Ahmed
Marjorie Wallace
Ricky Gervais
Peter Warlock
Jonathan Dimbleby

References

^ "The Keeling Centre for Ancient Philosophy". UCL Philosophy. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
^ "Watling Archive". UCL Philosophy. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
^ "Overall Rankings". The Philosophical Gourmet Report. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
^ "Philosophy". Top Universities. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
^ "Permanent Academic Staff". UCL Philosophy. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
^ "Honorary Academic Staff". UCL Philosophy. 26 July 2018.
^ "Emeritus Professors". UCL Philosophy. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.

External links

Official Website

University College London

Academic activities

Faculties, schools and groupings	Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Slade School of Fine Art) Faculty of Brain Sciences Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Faculty of the Built Environment (The Bartlett) Faculty of Engineering Sciences School of Energy and Resources School of Management Faculty of Laws Faculty of Life Sciences School of Pharmacy Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Faculty of Medical Sciences Medical School Faculty of Population Health Sciences Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences School of Slavonic and East European Studies Institute of Education Neuroscience
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Institutes and laboratories	Ear Institute Eastman Dental Institute Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Institute of Archaeology Institute for Global Health Institute of Jewish Studies Institute of Neurology Institute of Ophthalmology Institute of Security and Crime Science Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory
Other	Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic Pender Chair Papers from the Institute of Archaeology Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences Public Archaeology Quain Professor Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering Slade Professor of Fine Art Transcribe Bentham

University

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