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Research is at the heart of the Philosophy Department at the OU. There are nine full-time members of staff, all of whom are active researchers, who specialise in a range of subjects across the disciplines.

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The central aim of the Mind, Meaning and Rationality Research Group is to promote research in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, together with specific topics in other areas that relate closely to the themes of mind, meaning and rationality - for example, decision theory in ethics. These issues were chosen because they are important not only to philosophers, but also to people working in other disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, social psychology, economics and artificial intelligence.

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The OpenSpace Research Centre's grouping in this area explores what difference it might make - theoretically, empirically, ethically and politically - to take seriously the nonhuman dimensions of the practices and matters of concern at the heart of the social, and what this in turn might imply for our understandings of space and power. In attempting to think through these and related challenges, inspiration is taken from a wide range of sources including science and technology studies, anthropology, feminisms, philosophy, political theory, postcolonial studies, post-structuralism, and environmental studies as well as geography, and engaged empirically with topics including biosecurity, food, animalities, museums, consumption and disposal, earth processes, disasters, economies and finance, and others.

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The Philosophy Department's research and teaching interests in the area of value include: metaethics, ethical theory, moral psychology, moral epistemology, practical ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics and the theory of art.

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