Beebee's work has been influential across a wide variety of fields,including causation,free will,and natural kinds.[3]Eric Schliesser,writing on NewApps,described Beebee as 'one of the most prominent metaphysicists of our time'.[3] Beebee has a significant interest in the problem of underrepresentation of women in the field of philosophy,and has spoken about the problems that face women philosophers in a modern academic context,such as in her paper "Women and Deviance in Philosophy".[4][5]
Beebee is currently the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester,a position she has held since 2012.[5] Before her current position,Beebee held full-time appointments at the University of Manchester,and the University of Birmingham.[5] During her time at Birmingham,she served as Head of Department,and later as Head of School.[5] Besides for her permanent appointments,Beebee has also held temporary appointments at the University of Edinburgh,University of St Andrews,and the University College,London,and has also held a postdoctoral position at Australian National University.[5]
Research areas
A majority of Beebee's research could be broadly classed as dealing with Humeanism and related issues.[5] She has written on a wide variety of topics related to Humeanism,including attempting to tackle the question of whether or not the laws of nature govern what happens,whether inductive scepticism follows necessarily from a Humeanistic approach,and whether or not it is possible to observe causal relations in a meaningful way.[5] She has also written on Hume himself.[5] Beebee also has a secondary interest in free will,particularly in bringing Humean approaches to the problem of compatibilitism.[5]
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