Dr Conor McHugh

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Dr Conor McHugh is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton.

Before taking up his post at Southampton in 2011, Conor was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. He did his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He originally comes from Drogheda, in Ireland.

For up-to-date details and downloadable copies of his publications please see his personal homepage.

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Research interests

Conor has published on a range of topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and value theory, including the nature of belief and of attitudes more generally, normativity, reasons and reasoning, mental agency, doxastic non-voluntarism, and self-knowledge. He is currently working on a monograph on normative properties, co-authored with Jonathan Way.

He is happy to supervise research students working on topics such as the above.

For up-to-date details and downloadable copies of his publications please see his personal homepage.

Affiliate research groups

Ethics, Epistemology

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Books

Mchugh, C., Way, J., & Whiting, D. (Eds.) (2018). Metaepistemology. Oxford University Press.
Whiting, D. (Ed.), Way, J. (Ed.), & Mchugh, C. (2018). Normativity: epistemic and practical. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/normativity-9780198758709?cc=gb&lang=en&
McHugh, C., & Di Nucci, E. (Eds.) (2006). Content, Consciousness and Perception: Essays in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge Scholars Press.

Book Chapters

Mchugh, C., Way, J., & Whiting, D. (2018). Introduction. In C. McHugh, J. Way, & D. Whiting (Eds.), Metaepistemology Oxford University Press.
Whiting, D., Mchugh, C., & Way, J. (2018). Introduction. In C. McHugh, J. Way, & D. Whiting (Eds.), Normativity: Epistemic and Practical Oxford University Press.
McHugh, C. (2014). La Normativité Epistémique, la Vérité et la Connaissance. In J-M. Chevalier, & B. Gaultier (Eds.), Connaître: Questions d'Epistémologie Contemporaine Ithaque.
McHugh, C. (Accepted/In press). Reasons and self-knowledge. In A. Coliva (Ed.), The Self and Self-Knowledge Oxford University Press.
McHugh, C., & Di Nucci, E. (2006). Introduction: the state of mind. In C. McHugh, & E. Di Nucci (Eds.), Content, Consciousness and Perception: Essays in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (pp. 1-34). Cambridge Scholars Press.

Conference

McHugh, C. (2014). Fitting belief. In M. Soteriou (Ed.), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: 135th Session (pp. 1-15). The Aristotelian Society.

Review

McHugh, C. (2018). The Normativity of Rationality, by Benjamin Kiesewetter. Mind, 127(508), 1245-1253. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzy015

Semester 2

PHIL2021 Epistemology
PHIL3036 Self-Knowledge

Conor has supervised PhD students working on self-knowledge, intuitions in epistemology, objectivism and perspectivism in ethics, and epistemic normativity. He is happy to supervise students working on topics in his areas of research interest.

Dr Conor McHugh
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