The Cluster comprises the academic disciplines of Philosophy, Politics, Law, Theology, Religious and Biblical Studies.
Chair: Rosanna Keefe, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
| Member | University | Research interests |
| Jessica Isserow | Leeds | metaethics, normative ethics, and moral psychology |
| Scott Shalkowski | Leeds | modality; philosophy of religion; philosophical logic; scientific/religious rationality; modal epistemology |
| David Churchill | Leeds | Historical criminology; criminal justice history; policing and crime control; security technologies and the security industry; cities and urban history; Victorian Leeds |
| Dominic Gregory | Sheffield | Philosophical and logical issues concerning necessity and possibility |
| Peter Verovsek | Sheffield | Critical social theorist interested in the interconnection between democracy, capitalism and the nation-state |
| Richard Kirkham | Sheffield | Ombudsman, constitutional theory;
administrative justice |
| 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 Pillar | York | Ethics (theoretical and applied), in reasons and rationality, and in epistemology |