Dr Sarah Hitchen FHEA

Lecturer in Philosophy and Teaching Development

Research Overview

I'm a lecturer in Philosophy with a background in War Studies, Security Studies, Law, and Philosophy having studied, researched, and taught across all of these areas. My Philosophical interests primarily lie in the philosophy of war and conflict, military ethics, Ordinary Language Philosophy, analytic jurisprudence, and the philosophy of art and aesthetics, with occaisional forays into the linguistic elements of philosophy of science.

My main research focus recently has been on the centrality of the combatant experience to the study of war, military ethics and politics, particularly in the context of modern warfare and insurgency fighting. I am also interested in the moral and political aspects of public acts of rememberance in communities where tensions remain - particularly the history and ongoing discussion of official commemorations in the Republic of Ireland.

I'm also interested in the interaction of the practical and the more abstract in particular the relations between; craft, technique, and creativity, character and action, the ideal(ised) and the real(ised) which run through the arts and the professions of arms.

In my spare time I'm a printmaker, but keep my military interests entirely academic for the good of everyone.

Securitisation in the Non-Western World
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Infrastructure for Peace
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Soldiers' Lives and Experiences
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

MANCEPT
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Society of Legal Scholars Conference 2015
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

British Society for History of Philosophy
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Society of Legal Scholars Conference 2014
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Gilbert Ryle
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

All you need is science? Scientism and our multifaceted knowledge of reality’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Work in Utopia - Royal Institute of Philosophy
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

SocSociety for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Nordic Wittgenstein Society and the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society Annual Conference; 'The Contemporary Significance of Ordinary Language Philosophy'
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

British Society for Philosophy of Science
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

New Atheism, Scientism and Open-Mindedness
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Student Experience Impact Award
Prize (including medals and awards)