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PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH

In a broad sense, philosophy is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand the world and humanity's place in it. Those who study philosophy are perpetually engaged in asking, answering, and arguing for answers to life’s most basic questions. As an academic discipline, Philosophy pursues questions that have been of perennial interest to everyone. More details on some of our ongoing research projects can be found below.

View all our funded research projects              Research Lead for Philosophy Dr Tom Walker

Impact and Knowledge Exchange

See how our research is making an impact on the world.
Philosophy, Citizenship and Schools

Jeremy Watkins and Dave Archard delivered a sustainable model of citizenship education that is particularly tailored to the needs of post-conflict societies and that has been embedded in a number of teacher training courses in Northern Ireland.

Leadership of Fertility Treatment

Dave Archard, Emeritus Professor of philosophy at Queen's, provided ethical advice on all new biotechnological developments affecting those tens of thousands of prospective parents seeking fertility treatment.

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Treating people as objects

Tom Walker seeks to critically analyse the ways in which efforts to control the movement of people and objects across borders are becoming increasingly entangled, and the ethical implications of this entanglement.  

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 Chronic illness and the moral obligations of healthcare professionals

In the treatment of chronic disease patients are normally active partners in treatment delivery. Tom Walker examines the ethical implications of this for healthcare professionals’ obligations.

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Generous Questions Podcast
A podcast about philosophy that's made in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast.

Dr Joe Morrison asks colleagues, students and visiting academics a bunch of questions about the ideas that they're exploring.

Visit the website      Find it on Apple Podcasts      Find it on Stitcher

Read this article about the podcast on the American Philosophical Association blog


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Find out more about the discipline's pioneering research.
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