​​Andrew Stephenson

About Me

​​I'm currently at the University of Southampton but from August 2025 I'll be a Professor at LMU, Munich. My work focuses on Kant and related topics in contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Logic. I am particularly interested in the nature of mental activity, mental representation, and imagination, in the relation between anti-realism and transcendental idealism, and in modality and the epistemology of modality—and I think all these things are connected.

I grew up in Yorkshire and spent a year at music college before discovering philosophy and taking my first degree at Cardiff University. I moved to Merton College, Oxford, for my graduate studies (B.Phil. and D.Phil.) and was awarded the doctorate in 2013. Before joining Southampton in 2017, I held a teaching position at Trinity College, Oxford, and research positions at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Aarhus University, Denmark. Since joining Southampton I've held visiting research positions at the Human Abilities project at HU and FU in Berlin and at the University of Leipzig's Forschungskolleg for Analytic German Idealism as a Humboldt fellow.