“Should Foreign Tourism Be Discouraged?” Emily Thomas says ‘no’, defending the value of travel on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze.

Congratulations to Professor Philip Goff

Professor Nancy Cartwright gives lectures at both Condorcet Lecture and at first ever Mary Hesse Lecture.

Congratulations to Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy who has won The British Society for the History of Science’s (BSHS) Pickstone Prize.

On 22 June 2024, our Department of Philosophy threw a party to honour and celebrate the world-class academic achievements of our colleague, Nancy Cartwright, to mark the occasion of her 80th birthday.

Durham University's Transformative Humanities launched yesterday and gathered more than 130 researchers, colleagues, students, and partners from across the region and beyond to celebrate this new interdisciplinary framework.

Dr Jack Symes has been recognised as one of the UK’s most promising arts and humanities early career researchers.

Science is rightly celebrated, but as the problem of consciousness is revealing, there may be a limit to what we can learn through science alone, argues Professor Philip Goff in our Department of Philosophy.

A researcher in our Philosophy department has released his second book, which aims to explore the mysteries behind how everything came to exist.

As part of World Day of Social Justice, Dr Simona Capisani, who works in our Philosophy department, explains how her research looks to address structural and historical injustices and inequalities in the context of climate and environmental change.

We have launched a new Global Research Brochure where we shine a light on some of our incredible researchers who are making a difference in the world.

Professor Peter Vickers from our Department of Philosophy discusses the findings of his new research paper published in the journal of Astrobiology.