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Lee Walters is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, Faculty of Arts and Humanities. His research spans metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, and aesthetics. He is actively involved in academic leadership as Editor of Analysis and a Council Member of both the Aristotelian Society and the British Society of Aesthetics.
His research interests include:
- Metaphysics of fictional characters and repeatable artworks
- Philosophical logic, particularly conditionals and free logic
- Ontological commitment and semantics of empty names
- Truth in fiction and the philosophy of imagination
- Perception and material objects
His recent publications reflect a strong focus on counterfactuals, fictional entities, and ontological puzzles, contributing significantly to debates in analytic philosophy. He advocates novel positions such as the invalidity of Hypothetical Syllogism and the causal propagation of repeatable artworks as created types.
Scientific awards and fellowships include:
- British Society of Aesthetics Essay Prize (2012)
- British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2016/17)
- Junior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, CEU, Budapest (2015)
He supervises several PhD students, including Morgan Steele, Harish Narayanan, James Clark Ross, and Tommaso Soriani, and has secured research funding, notably a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is a member of the Southampton Ethics Centre and is currently writing a monograph on fictional characters.
