Department of Philosophy, King's College London

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Department of Philosophy,
King's College London
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Established
  • 1906 - Department of Philosophy and Psychology
  • 1912 - Department of Philosophy
Parent institution
 Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London
Head of Department Maria Alvarez
Academic staff
 40
Students 450
Location
Surrey Street, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Website Department of Philosophy

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The Department of Philosophy is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. It is one of the largest and most distinguished centres for the study of philosophy in the United Kingdom.[1][2][3][4][5]

History

For over half a century since the Anglican foundation of King's College in 1829, the study of philosophy was restricted to courses within the Department of Theology and the Department of English Literature. In 1906 a separate Department of Philosophy and Psychology was explicitly established, and in 1912 Philosophy split to form its own department.[6][7]

The department is located in the Philosophy Building on Surrey Street, a set of three adjacent townhouses joined through a series of corridors and forming part of the Strand Campus of King's College.[8][9][10] The vaults along the back of the building are those containing the old Roman Baths on Strand Lane.[11][12]

In 1989, Sir Richard Sorabji founded the King's College Centre for Philosophical Studies at the department with the aim of promoting philosophy to the wider public.[13][14][15]

The Head of Department is currently Bill Brewer, Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's.[16][17]

Traditions

The Department of Philosophy owns a historic bar on its premises in Surrey Street, officially the King's College Sports & Social Club Bar but referred to informally as simply the Philosophy Bar. Management of the bar was taken over by the King's College London Students' Union in 2016.[18]

Academic staff and students of the department also make an annual trip to Cumberland Lodge, a Grade II listed country house in Windsor Great Park.[19] There is a programme of lectures, communal meals and other activities, including an annual football match played between staff and students.[20]

Student life in the department is administered mainly by the King's College London Philosophy Society.[21]

Rankings

The Department of Philosophy at King's ranks highly in both national and global rankings.[22][5][23]

The Philosophical Gourmet Report lists the department at 4th in the UK and 26th in the English-speaking world.[24]

QS World University Rankings places the department at 4th in the UK and 9th globally in 2021.[25]

Current faculty

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  • Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
  • Adrian Alsmith, Lecturer in Philosophy (Mind and Psychology)
  • Maria Alvarez, Professor of Philosophy
  • Maria Rosa Antognazza, Professor of Philosophy
  • Joachim Aufderheide, Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Bill Brewer, Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy
  • John Callanan, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Rachel Cristy, Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Julien Dutant, Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Sarah Fine, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Alexander Franklin, Lecturer in Philosophy of Science
  • David Galloway, Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Sacha Golob, Reader in Philosophy
  • Christopher Hughes, Professor of Philosophy
  • Elselijn Kingma, Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine
  • Eleanor Knox, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Jessica Leech, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Clayton Littlejohn, Professor of Philosophy
  • Matteo Mameli, Reader in Philosophy
  • Eliot Michaelson, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Carlo Nicolai, Lecturer in Philosophy
  • David Owens, Professor of Philosophy
  • David Papineau, Professor of Philosophy of Science
  • Thomas Pink, Professor of Philosophy
  • Will Rasmussen, Matilal Lecturer in Indian philosophy
  • Jasper Reid, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Andrea Sangiovanni, Professor of Philosophy
  • Matthew Soteriou, Chair in Philosophy of Mind
  • James Stazicker, Lecturer in Philosophy
  • Mark Textor, Professor of Philosophy
  • Shaul Tor, Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy
  • Raphael Woolf, Professor of Philosophy

Emeritus faculty

Former faculty

Notable alumni

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See also: List of King's College London alumni

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See also

References

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