Professor Dorothy Edgington

Professor Dorothy Edgington was a member of the department here at Birkbeck from 1968-2003. She then left for Oxford to take up the Waynflete Chair of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, but has now returned to Birkbeck.

Research interests

Professor Edgington is internationally known for her work in applying probabilistic thinking to various philosophical problems, especially the analysis of conditionals and of vagueness.  She has also published seminal papers on logical issues in the debate between realism and anti-realism.  Her work includes a book called 'Towards Reasonable Doubt', on probability, possibility, conditionals and vagueness.

Areas of research supervision

Logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology, especially conditionals, vagueness, modality, probabilistic reasoning.