PHILOSOPHY

Where we’ve come from: UH Philosophy in REF 2014

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One of top 4 UH units of assessment (19% 4*; 47% 3*)

Some highlights: Impact performance - ‘The unit has a clear focus on

impact’ (30% 4*; 50% 3*) ‘The unit has a particularly impressive record at securing

grant income’: £1.49m total: £157k per FTE (sector average £70k)

despite being one of only 6 (of 40) submissions to the Philosophy sub-panel in post-92 institutions

Where we are heading: some specific areas of research strength Ethics, including:

moral psychology; moral agency; virtues and vices; ethics of cognition; ethics of forgiveness; religious ethics

Metaphysics esp. time, consciousness, perception

Philosophy of Action Philosophy of Art, Literature and Fiction Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Religious Thought and Philosophy of

Religion Specific philosophers

e.g. Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein

Contributions to UH themes

Heritage, Cultures and Communities

Performance and performativity

FaithsCultural history and heritage

Identity and social cohesion

Text, narrative and image

Visual, media & material cultures

• Heritage Ethics

• Mathematical Cultures

• Shakespeare and Philosophy

• Kierkegaard

• Wittgenstein

• Wittgenstein’s England exhibition

• Moral psychology of forgiveness, hope and humility

• Religious views of sexuality

• Religious thought and philosophy of religion

• Ethics of belonging

• Kierkegaard

• Ethics of cognition• Ethics of belonging

• Shakespeare and Philosophy

• Philosophy of fiction & literature

• Philosophy of film

Contributions to UH themes

Information and Security

Space

Global Economy Health and Wellbeing

• Ethics of risk-taking• Modelling virtues and vices in

leadership

• Metaphysics of persons: psychological aspects

• Modelling virtues and vices in education

• Mathematical Cultures (Education)• Schools Shakespeare Adaptation

Project (Education)• Kierkegaard and psychotherapy• Forgiveness in therapeutic practice

• Why we communicate & ICTs• Virtues and vices in policing• Action in ethics• Ethics of risk-taking• Ethics of cognition• Ethics of belonging• Philosophy of understanding• Philosophy of language

• Space-time theories

UH Philosophy: Pathways to impact

Changing information communication technologies (Microsoft Research)

Changing the ethical culture of policing (Hertfordshire Constabulary)

Changing the way Shakespeare is taught

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Changing… financial and socio-economic

policies on the ethics of risk-taking

heritage management policy how mathematicians are trained

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UH Philosophy: Pathways to impact

how virtues and vices are unconsciously modelled in teachers and trainers of medics and lawyers

the way forgiveness is addressed in psychotherapy

the way memory is understood

UH Philosophy: International collaborations

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Working with: Educationists, Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, Psychologists, Theologians, Fellow philosophers

BelgiumFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNetherlandsSpainSwitzerland

USA

DenmarkFinlandNorway

Canada

Australia