Chair: Amanda Montgomery (Dundee)
amanda.montgomery at bups.org



Hello my name is Amanda and I'm a final-year undergraduate at Dundee University. My interests are pretty wide but lie for the moment in modality and modal expressivism, naturalized metaphysics, conventionalism, the philosophy of science (mainly physics) and philosophical methodology. I've also done some work on set theory and I try to keep up with contemporary continental philosophy when I can. I am very approachable (I think), so feel free to contact me by email if you've any questions or speak to me at the next conference.

Web Officer / Schools Officer: Edmund Hair (Cambridge)
edmund.hair at bups.org



Hi, I'm Ed Hair, a final-year student from Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and also the BUPS Web Officer. Alongside an interest in many computer-related things, I also harbour a passion for political philosophy - in particular international justice, contemporary liberalism, anything to do with Rawls and anything relating to the paradox of democracy. Other philosophical interests include defending anomalous monism (scandalous I know), metaethics, philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science (grue). Beyond philosophy, I'm a keen (although pretty rubbish) tennis player, a stalwart Chelsea fan and also a very strict vegetarian. I'm happy to be contacted about anything to do with the website or anything philosophical.

Nakul Krishna (Oxford)
nakul.krishna at bups.org



Hey, I'm Nakul and I'm a finalist at Exeter College, Oxford, where I'm doing Philosophy, Politics and Economics. I'm interested in pretty much every aspect of Ancient Philosophy, especially Aristotle. I'm also interested in Rawls, philosophical liberalism and the history of political thought. More generally, I like being pedantic. When not doing philosophy or being pedantic, I like to go hiking.

Leah Wilkinson (UCL)
leah.wilkinson at bups.org



Hi, I'm Leah and I've just finished my second undergraduate year at University College London. My main interests include philosophy of psychology (particularly the philosophy of psychoanalysis) personal identity, philosophy of science, and political philosophy (especially the recent, back-biting 'luck egalitarianism' stuff). I'd love to explore Eastern philosophy in more depth, so if you're willing to banter about that, do get in touch. In my spare time, I lie around reading philosophy books, writing and tunelessly strumming my guitar.

Matteo Russo (Essex)
matteo.russo at bups.org



Hi I'm Matt, I'm a first year undergraduate from the University of Essex, bringing fresh blood and new vitality to BUPS. My role in the BUPS is that of General Officer, I will be representing the society and promoting it at conferences and throughout academic philosophy departments. My philosophical interests include existentialism, phenomenology and the philosophy of psychology; if I had to pick, I'd side more with the continental side of things, although i don't think the distinction exists at all in reality.

Joshua Seigal (UCL)
joshua.seigal at bups.org



Hi, my name is Joshua Seigal. I am currently in my final year as an undergraduate at UCL, and hope to continue there next year as a postgraduate. I am primarily interested in epistemology and the philosophy of mind (specifically: investigating contextualist accounts of knowledge attributions, and attempting to defend a Berkeleian idealist account of perception). I am also interested in ethics (primarily metaethics) and the philosophy of religion. As far as 'non-philosophical' interests go, I am obsessed with Tom Waits, and am an ardent fan of Tottenham Hotspur FC. Currently, my 'favourite philosopher' is Rogers Albritton. Not because I agree with what he says, but because he is the only philosopher I have ever come across that manages to be genuinely funny while writing serious, challenging philosophy.

Johnny Whiteley (Sheffield)
johnny.whiteley at bups.org



Hi, I’m Johnny and I’m a third-year undergrad at Sheffield University. Being asked what you like about philosophy is very much like being asked what you like about cake: You could say that it is the icing or the currants or the jam filling that maketh the cake, but I am not greatly of this opinion – I’m a holist about cake - and so I’m a little hesitant to pick apart the features of philosophy that I like the best. If pushed, I will answer Ethics (theoretical, applied and meta), Politics (particularly stuff about rights), Mind and Moral Psychology. I’m not terribly fond of Philosophy of Language, which I find to be a bit like them low-fat cakes you get that look delicious but create the sensation, upon tasting, of eating All-Bran out of a toilet bowl.

BJUP Editor: Andrew Stephenson (Oxford)
andrew.stephenson at bups.org



Hi, my name’s Andrew Stephenson. Having been an active member of the undergraduate committee for the last two years or so, I have now graduated and moved on to postgrad work. Now I take very much a back seat and watch how things are going from afar, chipping in now and then to offer help or advice. My main job is with BUPS’ sister journal, the BJUP. From issue 2_(1) until 2_(4) I will be the editor. This means co-ordinating publication, gathering papers and sending them off to our slowly growing review board of working academics from around the country – veteran PhDs, Doctors, and Professors. As regards my philosophical interests, I hope that they are very wide. Primarily I am interested in cultivating the dialogue between the so-called analytic and Continental traditions.

BJUP Sub-Editor: Ryan Dawson (Cambridge)
ryan.dawson at bups.org



As sub-editor of the journal, my primary responsibility is copyediting papers and helping get the work into a state ready for publication. This may sound quite easy and in comparison to what other members of the committee do, it probably is. Though you would probably be surprised by what kind of issues come up in preparing an issue of the journal. Issues of style and grammar can often get quite sticky. Much more difficult than grammar is the questions of measuring whether certain remarks are appropriate for an undergraduate journal. It's very important that the profile of the journal continue to rise and for this it has to be able to impress academics that read it. (For this reason papers are reviewed by a number of academics that offer us our services out of the kindness of their hearts.)