Areas of strength
Philosophy research at the University of Hertfordshire has several major areas of concentration and strength.
Philosophy research areas
Ethics, broadly construed, including:
- the relation between narrative, literature and ethics
- information and computer ethics
- philosophical and religious aspects of love and friendship
- moral agency
Philosophy of Art and Philosophy of Literature
Philosophy and Ethics of Information
Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Cognitive Science and AI, with particular expertise in topics relating to:
- information
- representation
- perception
- consciousness
- social cognition
- intersubjectivity
- folk psychology
- enactive, embodied, extended approaches to the mind
Research on these topics is both philosophically and empirically informed and focused.
Metaphysics, with strengths in time, perception, consciousness, idealism and structural realism.
Specific thinkers, especially Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein.