Research centres and interests
The Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
CEPPA is largely supported by external funding, and aims to promote research in philosophy relevant to topics of public importance and to promote the place of philosophy in these topics.
We run a Visiting Fellowship programme bringing up to six research fellows to St Andrews for part of each year. To date CEPPA has hosted over 60 fellows from more than a dozen countries.
Other activities include conferences and public lectures together with a publication programme. CEPPA’s annual T M Knox Memorial Lecture has been delivered by Rawls, MacIntyre, Dworkin, Williams, Kenny, O’Neill, Charles Taylor, Nussbaum, Rorty, Parfit, Waldron, Raz, Sheffler, Putnam, and other distinguished philosophers.
For further particulars concerning the activities of CEPPA, contact the director, Professor John Haldane or visit the CEPPA website.
Arché: Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology
Arché was founded in 1998. It is the only philosophical research centre in the world dedicated to the core areas of analytical philosophy. Its mission is to conduct and foster collaborative research on fundamental issues in metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophies of logic, language, mathematics and mind, and to provide a dedicated training environment for younger (postdoctoral and postgraduate) researchers.
Professor Jessica Brown is the Director of Arché. Regular Visiting Professorial Fellows include Graham Priest, François Recanati, Jason Stanley, Stewart Shapiro, and Brian Weatherson.
Arché currently hosts six major AHRC projects:
- Contextualism and Relativism
- Foundations of Logical Consequence
- Philosophical Methodology
- Propositions/Indexicality in Language and Thought/Time and Tense
- Models, Modality and Meaning
- Evidence, Justification and Knowledge
For more information visit the Arché website.