Dr Stephen Burwood

I first came to Hull as an undergraduate and studied philosophy under Alan R. White, Paul Gilbert, and Kathleen Lennon. My degree was an eclectic mix of philosophical styles and interests that provided the foundation for an open approach the subject and which still characterizes the way philosophy is taught at Hull. After a prolonged spell outside HE, I returned to Hull and have been teaching here for 25 years. My PhD thesis was on Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein.

I consider myself to be a philosophical generalist (philosophy is a holistic discipline and is never uninteresting), though my research tends to focus primarily on the later Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind and embodied subjectivity (including the phenomenology of medicine and health), and the philosophy of higher education. Happily, these areas often overlap, allowing a productive conversation between otherwise distinct areas of enquiry. Recently, my interest in philosophy of mind and embodiment has led to a Templeton funded research project in trans-humanism, immortality, and the afterlife.