Academic staff
On this page you can find research profiles and contact details for academic staff currently working in the Department of Philosophy. If you aren’t sure who to contact then get in touch using our general contact details. For details of our honorary and retired staff, as well as our teaching fellows, please follow the link below.
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Joshua Forstenzer
Senior Lecturer in PhilosophyDepartment of Philosophy
Interests are in political and social philosophy, American Pragmatism, and philosophy of education. Current project: participatory democracy, youth politics and civic education in higher education
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j.i.forstenzer@sheffield.ac.uk
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Max Khan Hayward
Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Political PhilosophyDepartment of Philosophy
Max's research interests include normative ethics, metaethics and moral psychology. He is also interested in the history of Philosophy, including British Empiricists and the American Pragmatists.
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m.hayward@sheffield.ac.uk
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Angie Hobbs
Professor of the Public Understanding of PhilosophyDepartment of Philosophy
Angie's research interests include ancient Greek philosophy and ethics (ancient and modern), notably the ethics of flourishing and virtue; heroism, courage and fame; love and desire; friendship.
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a.hobbs@sheffield.ac.uk
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Yonatan Shemmer
Senior Lecturer in PhilosophyDepartment of Philosophy
Yonatan's research interests include the philosophy of action, the philosophy of practical reason and the contribution of these two fields to Ethics and to the theory of normativity in general.
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y.shemmer@sheffield.ac.uk
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Gerardo (Jerry) Viera
Lecturer in Philosophy of ScienceDepartment of Philosophy
Jerry's research interests lie at the intersection between philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and related fields. The main focus of his research concerns temporal perception and cognition.
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g.viera@sheffield.ac.uk