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Dr D’Oro was awarded a PhD from the University of Essex in 1995 for a thesis on the philosophy of Kant and Hegel and the relationship between transcendental and objective idealism. She is interested in epistemological and metaphysical questions in both the Anglo-American and European traditions. Her current research interests are in metaphilosophy and the philosophy of action. The metaphilosophical issue with which she is concerned is that of the relationship between philosophy and science and whether philosophy is an autonomous discipline with its own method and subject matter. These meta-philosophical views have led her to defend a particular position in the philosophy of action, according to which the question “how is mental causation possible?” should be construed not in metaphysical terms, as asking “how can the mind fit in the natural world?” but in conceptual terms as asking: “what are actions?” and “under what conditions is an autonomous science of the mind possible?” These arguments have been developed in several journal articles that have appeared in Metaphilosophy, The European Journal of Philosophy, Ratio, Inquiry and in a manuscript provisionally entitled “From a Conceptual Point of View”. The manuscript was completed thanks to an AHRC research leave award for the academic year 2006-07. Her interests in metaphilosophy and the philosophy of action developed out of a reading of R. G. Collingwood. She is the joint editor of Collingwood’s An Essay on Philosophical Method (Oxford, 2005) and the author of Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience (Routledge, 2002). The latter was completed thanks to an AHRB research leave award for the academic year 2000-01. Please follow this link for a list of publications and further details:
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