Who's who
Head of Philosophy, Professor Thomas Uebel
Thomas Uebel gained his undergraduate degree in philosophy at University College London and his PhD at M.I.T. in 1989. Prior to coming to Manchester in 1998 he held postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern University, University of Pittsburgh, Technical University Berlin and taught at the University of Vienna and the London School of Economics.
His research interests combine history of analytical philosophy and history of philosophy of science with systematic issues in epistemology and philosophy of social science. He is editor/co-editor of several volumes dealing with different aspects of logical empiricism and current philosophy of science (including The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism, CUP 2007), author/co-author of several books on the Vienna Circle (including Empiricism at the Crossroads, Open Court 2007) and author/co-author of numerous articles in journals and collections.
Director of Graduate Studies (Research), Dr Joel Smith
Joel completed his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Cambridge (1995), before gaining an MPhil (2000) and PhD (2003) at University College London. He then spent five years as a member of the philosophy department at the University of Essex, first as a teaching fellow (2003-2005), then as a research fellow (2005-2008). Joel was appointed to a lectureship at Manchester in 2007.
His research interests are in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of psychology and phenomenology. He works, in particular, on self-consciousness and consciousness of others.
Director of Graduate Studies (Taught), Dr Catharine Abell
Catharine completed her PhD in 2003. She joined the Discipline Area as lecturer in January 2006. Before her arrival at Manchester, she held lecturing positions at Macquarie University and The University of Adelaide.
Since arriving at Manchester, she has spent three years at Macquarie University in Sydney, on a Macquarie University Research Fellowship.
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr Graham Stevens
Graham Stevens did his first degree in English at the University of Portsmouth before going to Southampton University to do a Masters and then a PhD in Philosophy. He taught at Southampton before coming to Manchester in 2003, and was made a Senior Lecturer in 2007.
Graham's research is mainly centred on the Philosophy of Language and the History of Analytical Philosophy (especially the philosophy of Bertrand Russell). He has written two books: The Russellian Origins of Analytical Philosophy (Routledge 2005) and The Theory of Descriptions (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and has published numerous papers.