The Department of Philosophy is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

Affiliated centres

* The Keeling Centre for Ancient Philosophy (named after

Stanley Victor Keeling Stanley Victor Keeling (9 August 1894 – 28 November 1979), usually cited as S. V. Keeling, was a British philosopher, formerly a reader at University College London (UCL). He is best known for his 1934 monograph ''Descartes'', printe ...

) * Watling Archive (archive of

John Leonard Watling John Leonard Watling (18 December 1923 - 10 July 2004) was a British philosopher and Head of philosophy department at University College London The Department of Philosophy is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Uni ...

's published and unpublished writings)

Rankings

The Philosophical Gourmet Report 2021-22 lists the department at 6th in the UK and 41st in the English-speaking world.

QS World University Rankings ''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...

places the department at 7th in the UK and 20th globally in 2019.

Permanent Faculty

Honorary Faculty

* Tamsin De Waal *

M.M. McCabe Mary Margaret Anne McCabe (born 18 December 1948), known as M. M. McCabe, is emerita professor of ancient philosophy at King's College London. She has written books on Plato and other ancient philosophers, including the pre-Socratics, Socrates ...

Anthony Savile Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, ...

* Victor Verdejo * Jonathan Wolff * Arnold Zuboff

Emeritus Professors

Malcolm Budd Malcolm Budd (born 23 December 1941) is a British philosopher. Biography Budd studied mathematics and philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge. He taught at University College London from 1970 until 2001, and was appointed the Grote Professor ...

Marcus Giaquinto Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to: * Marcus (name), a masculine given name * Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name Places * Marcus, a Asteroid belt, main belt asteroid, also known as List of minor planets: 369001–370000#088, ( ...

Ted Honderich Ted Honderich (born 30 January 1933) is a Canadian-born British professor of philosophy, who was Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London. Biography Honderich was born Edgar Dawn Ross Honderich on ...

* Paul Snowdon

Notable alumni

* Keith Simmons * David Conway * James Garvey * Momtazuddin Ahmed *

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References

External links

Official Website
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