Helen Beebee FBA is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and a Fellow of the British Academy.
[2] Beebee's work has been influential across a wide variety of fields, including causation, free will, and natural kinds.
[5] Beebee is currently the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, a position she has held since 2012.
[5] A majority of Beebee's research could be broadly classed as dealing with Humeanism and related issues.
[5] Beebee also has a secondary interest in free will, particularly in bringing Humean approaches to the problem of compatibilitism.