Before joining the Philosophy Department at the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer in 2005, I was Honorary Lecturer in Bioethics in the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy at the University of Manchester and Research Associate on the EC-funded EU-RECA. Since at Birmingham, my research and teaching has focused on the philosophy of the cognitive sciences.

I am the editor in chief of Philosophical Psychology (Taylor and Francis) and the founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden, a virtual philosophy museum with resources on timely philosophical issues for young people and the general public.

I am the author of two textbooks, Introduction to the philosophy of science (Polity, 2008) and Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction (Polity, 2021, with Kengo Miyazono).

I am the author of three monographs, Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs (OUP, 2009), The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs (OUP, 2020), and Why Delusions Matter (Bloomsbury, 2023); and a key concepts book, Irrationality (Polity, 2014). In 2011 I was awarded the American Philosophical Association Book Prize for the 2009 monograph on delusions. 

I edited four volumes, Philosophy and Happiness (Palgrave, 2009); Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives (OUP, 2009, with Matthew Broome) which was listed among the Guardian Books of the Year in 2009; Delusions in Context (Palgrave, 2018); and Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare: Recognising agency and promoting virtues across the life span (Palgrave, forthcoming in 2024).

My research interests include: agency, rationality, and self knowledge in psychopathology; delusion and confabulation; biased cognition; epistemic innocence and epistemic injustice; the notion of disorder in the philosophy of medicine. I am also interested in some issues within biomedical ethics.

I am currently working on two funded projects: Agency in Practice led by Michael Larkin at Aston University (funded by UKRI) and Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare led by Havi Carel in Bristol (funded by Wellcome).

For 5 years (2014-2019), I led a project called PERFECT,  Pragmatic and Epistemic Role of Factually Erroneous Cognitions and Thoughts, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant (EUR 1.900.065). 

• Watch Lisa's inaugural lecture: "Agency without rationality"