Philosophy Research

Keele philosophy research activities are organised by the Keele Forum for Philosophical Research. These include the Keele Forum for Philosophical Research Annual Lecture and Conference, the Royal Institute of Philosophy Invited Lectures, Postgraduate Research Seminars, reading groups, special lectures and other events organised by the Research Centre for SPIRE (School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy).

We have research strengths in many of the main areas of philosophy, with particular expertise in the following areas: Kantian philosophy (all aspects); metaphilosophy; philosophy of mind and action; Collingwood; Rorty. Other research strengths include history of philosophy; political philosophy; environmental philosophy; metaphysics; moral philosophy, in particular normative ethics and metaethics.

The Forum for Philosophical Research provides a centre for the activities of the UK Kant Society and of the Kantian Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research.

Selected publications by staff

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  • Baiasu S. 2011. Kant and Sartre: Rediscovering Critical Ethics. Palgrave MacMillan
  • Baiasu S, Pihlstroem S, Williams H. 2011. Metaphysics and Politics in the Wake of Kant. In Politics and Metaphysics in Kant. Baiasu S, Pihlstroem S, Williams H (Eds.). University of Wales Press.
  • Baiasu S. 2011. Practical Justification in Kant. In Practical Justification in Kant: Interpretative Essays. Baiasu S and Timmons M (Eds.). Oxford University Press
  • Baiasu S. 2011. Space, Time and Mind-dependance. Kantian Review, vol. 2(16).
  • Baiasu. 2011. Dealing Morally with Religious Differences. In Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation. Mookherjee M (Ed.). Springer
  • D'Oro G. (Ed.) 2012. Reasons and Causes: causalism and anti-causalism in the philosophy of action. forthcoming: Palgave Macmillan.
  • D'Oro G. 2012. Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.
  • D'Oro G. 2011. Davidson and the Autonomy of the Human Sciences. In Dialogues with Davidson. Malpas J (Ed.). MIT.
  • D'Oro G. 2007. The gap is semantic, not epistemological. Ratio, vol. 20(2), 168-178.
  • D'Oro G. 2002. Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience. Routledge.
  • Tartaglia J. 2011. Philosophy Between Science and Religion. Papers in Philosophy, vol. 12(2), 224-241.
  • Tartaglia J. 2010. Did Rorty's Pragmatism Have Foundations?. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 18(5), 607-627.
  • Tartaglia J. 2009. Richard Rorty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers. Routledge.
  • Tartaglia J. 2008. Consciousness, Intentionality, and the mark of the mental: Rorty's challenge. The Monist, vol. 91(2), 324-346.
  • Tartaglia J. 2007. Rorty and the Mirror of Nature. Routledge.

Recent Keele Philosophy graduates who have secured academic posts in philosophy:

  • Graeme Forbes (Southwestern College, Kansas, then University of Kent)
  • Lisa McNulty (Regent's University, London)
  • Katie Harrison (University of Sheffield, then University of St. Andrews)
  • Liam Shields (University of Manchester)
  • Wade Allen (Austin Community College, Texas)