Philosophy Cardiff University

Overview

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

The research in Philosophy at 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.