Philosophy

Pursue innovative research with experts working at the cutting-edge of their fields. Staff specialisms cover most traditional areas of Philosophy at Cardiff University, including analytic, continental and empirical approaches and an exciting range of growing sub specialties. 

We have particular strengths in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and the intersections between these.

The research in Philosophy Philosophy at Cardiff University Cardiff University covers normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics. Many of our staff have overlapping expertise in normative theory, practical reason, moral psychology and social-political philosophy, with our work in applied ethics including research on health, biobanking, nutrigenomics and sport.

Programme aims

• The research programme aims to offer knowledge and expertise to take you on to a role in Higher Education, or employment requiring high-level skills in research or advanced subject knowledge.

• This PhD programme recruits a diverse range of Home/EU and International students who want to engage in a research environment that is characterised by the combination of expertise across both analytic and continental approaches to philosophy.

Career Prospects 

In recent years, students gaining PhDs in Philosophy from Cardiff have gone on to lecturing positions at Soka University, Japan and Nanyang Technological University Singapore, while others have secured posts outside Higher Education in the teaching profession.

Areas of research include:

• Normative ethics (esp. Kantian ethics, virtue ethics, anti-theory)
• Metaethics (including practical reason)
• Moral psychology
• Applied ethics (including medical ethics, ethics of sport, risk)
• Philosophy of normativity (e.g. practical and epistemic normativity and rationality)
• Political philosophy