The Cluster comprises the academic disciplines of Philosophy, Politics, Law, Theology, Religious and Biblical Studies.
Chair: Darren Bradley, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds
| Member | University | Research interests |
| Greg Raddick | Leeds | Darwinism; Genetics and Eugenics; Sciences of Mind, Language and Behaviour; History of Science |
| Ellen Clarke | Leeds | Philosophy of Science; Feminist philosophy; evolutionary theory; cultural evolution theory |
| Jen Hendry | Leeds | Social and legal theory; socio-legal studies; comparative legal studies; indigenous justice; legal pluralism; and civil & criminal procedure; specifically procedural hybrids |
| T. Ryan Byerly | Sheffield | Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, and Virtue Theory |
| Edward Hall | Sheffield | Political ethics, liberal political thought, and realist political theory |
| Richard Craven | Sheffield | Administrative Law; Regulation; Public Procurement Regulation; Empirical Legal Studies; Law and Economics |
| Alfred Moore | York | Political theory, with particular interests in deliberative democracy, social epistemology, politics of expertise and technology and democracy |
| Louise Richardson | York | Perception and the senses: seeing empty space, smell, taste, touch, bodily awareness, cross-modal perception and Molyneux’s question |
| Christian Piller | York | Ethics (theoretical and applied), in reasons and rationality, and in epistemology |