Accepting applications from PhD students.
Email: S.Kimpton-Nye@soton.ac.uk
I am a Lecturer in Philosophy. My current research concerns the metaphysics and epistemology of modality, laws of nature, and the metaphysics of consciousness.
Dr Kimpton-Nye is currently investigating pragmatist, science-friendly approaches to the philosophy of laws of nature and the philosophy of modality (possibility, necessity, and related notions). He is also working on consciousness where he applies insights from the literature on dispositions and grounding to develop a new model of the metaphysics of consciousness that charts a middle ground between physicalism and dualism and makes room for the possibility of algorithmic AI consciousness.
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Philosophy of Science
Early Modern Philosophy (Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume)
Philosophy of Art
Philosophy of Mind
I received my PhD from King's College London in 2018. I then worked at King's, Northeastern University London, The Unviersity of Bristol, and King's again before taking up a Lectureship at The University of Southampton.
