The Ferens Chair in Philosophy, established in 1927, is one of the founding Chairs of the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hull ...

and is supported by an endowment provided by the founder of the university

Thomas Ferens Thomas Robinson Ferens (4 May 1847 – 9 May 1930) was a British Liberal politician, a philanthropist, and an industrialist. He was the Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull East for 13 years, and served the city as a Justice of the Peace ...

. Previous occupants of the Chair include

Thomas Jessop Thomas Jessop (31 January 1804, in Sheffield – 30 November 1887) was a steelmaker who became Mayor of Sheffield (1863-1864) and Master Cutler (1863). As Mayor, he had to deal with the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864. Family Thomas Jessop was ...

OBE,

Alan R. White Alan Richard White (9 October 1922 – 23 February 1992) was an Analytic philosophy, analytic philosopher who worked mainly in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and, latterly, legal philosophy. Peter Hacker notes that he was "the most ski ...

, Peter Lamarque and

Kathleen Lennon Kathleen Lennon, a former Ferens Professor of Philosophy, is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull, England. Career After studying for her undergraduate degree at the University of Kent, Lennon obtained her master's degre ...

. From 2013-14 the holder of the Ferens Chair is Nick Zangwill.

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Philosophy at Hull
1927 establishments in England Professorships in philosophy University of Hull {{Philosophy-stub