The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce three new appointments: Emma Bullock, Philip Goff and Maria Kronfeldner will become faculty members from August 1, 2014.
Emma brings to the department specialisation in Medical Ethics, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine and Normative Ethics. She graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2012 and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Philosophy of Medicine ‘Concepts of Health’ Research Seminar at the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London. She was earlier a Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Australian National University and a Part-time Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Emma is appointed as Assistant Professor at CEU and will share her time between the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Law and Bioethics.
Philip is appointed as Associate Professor and brings to the department specialisation in the Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion. He is currently a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Earlier he held several positions, among them a Visiting Fellowship and later a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University; a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, as part of the AHRC project on ‘Phenomenal Qualities’ at The University of Hertfordshire; and a Visiting Research Fellowship at King’s College London. Philip earned his PhD at the University of Reading in 2006. He has published widely, mainly in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind.
Maria, who is appointed as Associate Professor at CEU, specialises in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences. She has published widely in this area, and has been awarded for some of her publications (The Karl Popper Essay Prize of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science; The Philosophical Quarterly International Essay Prize). Maria is currently a Junior Professor at Bielefeld University. Earlier she held several fellowships, among them at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin; at the Fishbein Center for History of Science and Medicine of the University of Chicago; at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh; and at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science of the University of Sydney. She earned her PhD at the University of Regensburg in 2006.
The Department extends a very warm welcome to Emma, Maria and Philip!