NATALIE ASHTON
I am a final year philosophy PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, working with Duncan Pritchard and Jesper Kallestrup. In my thesis I develop a version of 'hinge' justification, and show how it can be applied to problems in both traditional and social epistemology. I'm also one of the directors of MAP UK, and I co-organise the Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group. MARY EDWARDS
I'm a PhD student at University College Cork and a Student Representative for SWIP Ireland. My main research interests are in phenomenology and the philosophy of literature. My thesis explores the philosophical significance of literature in the later work of Jean-Paul Sartre. |
LAURA FRANCES CALLAHAN
I am completing the BPhil at Oxford University, planning to start at Rutgers University in Autumn 2015. My primary interest is epistemology, extending particularly to anything to do with epistemic normativity, the ethics of belief, testimony and trust, or religious epistemology. ANNA ICHINO
I am finishing my PhD in philosophy at the University of Nottingham. My main research interests are in the philosophy of mind and psychology, with a focus on imagination and its relationship to belief. In my thesis I explore the ways in which imagination competes with belief to influence our view of the world, our reactions to it and interactions with it. I am also interested in aesthetics, notably in questions concerning the cognitive underpinnings of our engagement with fictional works of art. |
JULIA LANGKAU
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the interdisciplinary research centre Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz (Germany). I'm currently working on a project titled Emotions and Fiction. My research interests are epistemology, methodology, and aesthetics. Until 2012, I was a PhD student in the Philosophical Methodology project at the Arché Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). |
CHRIS MEYNS
I am a PhD candidate at University College London and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Toronto. From summer 2015 onward I will be a Research Associate and Project Manager in the New Directions of the Study of the Mind project at the University of Cambridge. I have worked on early modern debates in the metaphysics of mind, psychological capacities (such as sense perception, thought, memory), and subject plasticity, with additional research interests in probability, digital humanities, and philosophy of computing and information. |