Philosophy News
New staff: Welcome and Introductions
The Philosophy department is delighted to welcome the following new staff to its growing community:
John joined the department on the 1st July 2016 as Assistant Professor and was previously Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Hungary. John works mainly on issues pertaining to social cognition -- especially mindreading, perspective taking, joint action, and the sense of commitment -- but is also interested in lots of issues in cognitive science and in the philosophy of cognitive science. For more information please see: https://warwick.academia.edu/JohnMichael. John will be leading a 5 year starting grant from the European Research Council to investigate the sense of commitment in joint action (ERC StG 679092: The Sense of Commitment). For more information please see the recent press release
Mrs Jayne Parker
Jayne joins the department as Project Administrator for the Sense of Commitment project and will work two days a week to support John Michael and his research team over the next five years. Jayne previously worked in the Warwick Medical School in a very similar role supporting the Mental Health Project ‘MILESTONE’.
Tom joined the department on the 1st September 2016 as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow and will be with us for the next 3 years in this role. Tom works mainly in the area of Cognitive Phenomenology. He was previously a post-doc on the Architecture of Consciousness project at the University of Manchester, and a fixed-term lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
John joined the department on the 1st September 2016 for 2 years as a Teaching Fellow with academic responsibility within the department for admissions, outreach and recruitment activities. John comes to us from Dublin City University and will develop and lead the Department’s recruitment, admissions and outreach strategies. John will also contribute to the first year tutorial teaching this year. John’s research interests include: The ethics and nature of formative influence; Religious Education; Moral Education; Philosophy of Education; Ethical Theory; Philosophy of Religion.