Dr Edward Elliott

Profile

I joined the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science in January 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher, and began as a Lecturer in July of the same year. Between Febrary 2017 and January 2019, I was a Marie Curie Fellow, working on a project concerning degrees of belief and the philosophy of mind.

Responsibilities

• Director of PGT
• MA Director Philosophy
• Integrated Project Leader

Research interests

My research focuses on decision theory especially as it relates to the philosophy of mind, so issues concerning the nature of graded belief and desire and their relationships to behaviour and evidence. I also do research in the philosophy of language (especially theories of meaning and content), formal semantics (especially two-dimensional semantics and possible worlds theories of content), and metaethics (especially moral functionalism and moral nihilism).

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Qualifications

• PhD, Australian National University 2015

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for Metaphysics and Mind
• Philosophy

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