The Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine is an

endowed chair A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of its founders and donors. Endowments are of ...

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

named after Peter Sowerby (physician and philanthropist). It was established in 2015 and is supported by the Peter Sowerby Foundation. The Chair leads the Philosophy and Medicine Project which is a joint venture between Department of Philosophy, the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, and the

Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care is an academic faculty within King's College London. The faculty is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medic ...

Peter Sowerby Professors of Philosophy and Medicine

Sherrilyn Roush Sherrilyn Roush is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy in UCLA Department of Philosophy specializing in the philosophy of science and epistemology. Career She joined King's College London in 2014 after accepting the inaugural P ...

(2015-2018) *

Alexander Bird Alexander James Bird (born 1964) is a British philosopher and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Career In 2020, Bird was elected to the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy, succeeding Huw Pric ...

(2018-2020) * Elselijn Kingma (2020-)

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