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Research @ Edinburgh

In the latest UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), 65% of Philosophy's research activity was judged to be either 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'.

As a guide, this puts us on a par with philosophy at Oxford and Cambridge, and so confirms our status as one of the leading departments of philosophy in the UK for research.

Research Clusters

While we have research expertise in all the main areas of philosophy, we have specific research strengths in the following five areas:

These research clusters are the focus for a range of regular research activities, such as conferences, workshops, reading groups, colloquia, and so forth. They also host externally funded research projects. We offer specific research training for postgraduates in these areas, and each cluster will have a large group of doctoral students affiliated to it. We offer dedicated MSc courses in all five areas.

Research Groupings

In addition to our five research clusters, we also have two research groupings:

These are areas of research concentration which we believe have the potential to eventually develop into a fully-fledged research cluster. Like a research cluster, a research grouping hosts a range of regular research activities, and will also typically have several doctoral students affiliated to it.

Eidyn Research Centre

In addition to our research clusters and groupings, we also host a research centre:

Eidyn is home to a number of research projects, from externally funded large-scale collaborative projects to small pilot projects. These projects span across nearly all of our research clusters and groupings.

News

3 Minute Thesis Competition Winners (College heat)

31 May 2013

CHSS have nominated three candidates to go through to the University heat...

3 Minute Thesis Competition Winners

19 May 2013

The PPLS heat of the 3 minute thesis competition was won by...

Edinburgh at the HowTheLightGetsIn2013

2 May 2013

Michela Massimi (Philosophy) will take part in two roundtables...

Royal Institution Public Lectures in collaboration with Philosophy

26 Apr 2013

The Ri will host in June a series of three public lectures...

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Events

The Philosophy of Luck

19 Jun 2013

The aim of the workshop is to bring together philosophy academics and postgraduates to discuss th...

The Gettier Problem at 50

20 – 21 Jun 2013

Conference programme

Thursday, 20 June

The Greco Workshop

24 Jun 2013 16:00 – 19:00

Time 
16:00 – 16:45 John Greco: "Knowledge, Virtue and Safety"
16:45 – 17:15 Di...

Kant and the Laws of Nature

27 – 28 Jun 2013

The theme of this workshop is Kant’s view on the lawfulness of nature, and in particular the role...

Epistemology Research Group

9 Jul 2013 15:30 – 17:00

Speaker: Nikolaj Pedersen (Underwood International College (UIC), Yonsei University)
Title: 'TBA'

Embodied Music Cognition (EMuCog) Conference

22 – 23 Jul 2013

The purpose of this conference is to stake out the possibilities of a distinct research field for...

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