Project Team
Dr Anna Marmodoro
Project Director
Dr Marmodoro is a Fellow in Philosophy in Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She specializes in two research areas: metaphysics on the one hand, and ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy on the other. She has also strong research interest in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. In metaphysics she is particularly interested in questions concerning fundamentality; composition and structure; the nature of properties, dispositions, relations; the metaphysics of substance; and causation. With her other hat on, she has worked on an eclectic collection of topics, in Anaxagoras, Aristotle, the Stoics, Gregory of Nyssa, Aquinas. Anna has published monographs, edited books and journal articles in all these areas. She currently directs a large-scale multidisciplinary research group funded by the European Reseach Council and the Templeton World Charity Foundation, with a combined research budget of over £2M. Her group investigates the nature of the fundamental building blocks of reality, with special interest in the hypothesis that they may be modeled as causal powers. Anna and her group also investigate how ancient thinkers in the Western world thought of the same set of questions.
Prof Andrew Steane
Co-investigator
Professor Steane is based in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics and is a Tutorial Fellow in Exeter College, University of Oxford. Professor Steane's scientific research concerns the coherent manipulation of atoms and quantum information theory
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Prof Brian Leftow
Co-investigator
Professor Leftow is the Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oriel College, Oxford (2003–). Professor Leftow’s research interests are in Philosophy of religion, Metaphysics, and Medieval philosophy.
Dr Christopher Hughes
Co-investigator
Dr Christopher Hughes is a Reader in philosophy at King’s College, London. Dr Hughes' philosophical interests are mainly in metaphysics, philosophical logic, the philosophy of religion, and medieval philosophy.
Dr George Darby
postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy of physics
George's research is mainly in metaphysics, the philosophy of physics and philosophical logic. What he is most interested in is the way in which themes in these areas relate to each other. Before coming to Oxford he worked at Birkbeck and at the University of Kent, where he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, with a project on the connection between analytic metaphysics and natural science. See more.
Dr Daniel Kodaj
postdoctoral research fellow in metaphysics
Daniel comes from the Central European University, Budapest, where he worked on a dissertation on contemporary analytic idealism. He is interested in metaphysics and religion, and has published on possible worlds, Humean Supervenience, and the problem of evil.
Dr David Glick
postdoctoral research fellow in metaphysics
David received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Arizona in 2014. His research centers on issues at the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophy of science (esp. physics). In particular, he is interested in structural realism in the philosophy of science and issues of holism and non-separability in the metaphysics of quantum theory. Before coming to Oxford, David was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester and an Instructor at the University of Arizona. Personal website.
postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy of religion
Martin works on Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion, with an additional research interest in Early Modern Philosophy. His work in the Philosophy of Religion focuses on the ways that contemporary analytic metaphysics can open up conceptual space to make sense of Christian doctrines that have traditionally been philosophically puzzling. This connects to his work on the Metaphysics of Entanglement project. Martin’s research in metaphysics presents a new theory about the world called situationalism. The theory solves a number of longstanding puzzles about the continued existence of objects through time. He is in the process of publishing a book, called Reality in Pieces: A Theory of How the World Is, introducing situationalism and its merits. He studied philosophy and theology at Oxford as an undergraduate and took an MA in philosophy at KCL, before returning to Oxford for the BPhil and DPhil. Before taking up a position on the Entanglement project, Martin was the Salvesen Junior Fellow at New College, Oxford, where he remains a Junior Research Fellow. He has taught a range of subjects for a number of colleges in Oxford. Personal website.
Dori Castillo Aranda
Project Administrator
Dori holds BA (Hons) Business Administration & Management in the University of Jaen, Spain and joined the project team as a part-time administrator in 2015
