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I am a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. Before joining Bristol, I was Marie Curie (UKIR) Fellow at the University of Leeds. I obtained my PhD from Birkbeck. My research explores questions in the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.

I came to Birkbeck as a lecturer in the philosophy department in 1968, and spent most of my career there. I was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics at Oxford, 2003-2006. I am a Fellow of the British Academy, was President of the Mind Association 2004-5, and President of the Aristotelian Society 2007-8. I work mainly on conditionals, probability and vagueness.

I am Lecturer in European Philosophy at Birkbeck, where I teach part-time. I am also Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading. I mostly work on topics in ethics, theories of agency, and themes in post-Kantian philosophy. I also have interests in aesthetics, metaphysics, early modern philosophy (especially Spinoza), and the philosophy of religion.

After a career in business, I spent ten years studying philosophy at Birkbeck, gaining my PhD in the summer of 2025. My main interest is the Philosophy of Mind, and my particular focus is the nature of mental action, and the role language plays in thinking.

I am Director of the Birkbeck Philosophy Research Centre, and Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck. My principal philosophical interests are epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and mathematics. I am currently writing a book about awareness, which I take to be an unanalysable relation between a mind and a property exemplification.

Since 2023 I have been Professor Emerita, Birkbeck. My research focuses on early-modern philosophy, Spinoza, political and social philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of art, epistemology and gender relations. I am currently working on Margaret Cavendish and the philosophical painter Nicolas Poussin. I am a Fellow of the British Academy and Chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy.

Coming to Philosophy after a career in Finance, I have been at Birkbeck for the entirety of my philosophical journeyings to date, from undergraduate studies through to PhD and beyond. My principal focus is on Metaphysics – particularly the philosophy of time and the philosophy of mind, and the possibility of connections between them.

I am an independent scholar. I took my PhD on theories of possibility at Birkbeck College, London. I have published on logic, metaphysics and epistemology, including in the journals History and Philosophy of Logic and Theoria, and I co-edited the volume Knowledge, Number and Reality (London: Bloomsbury 2022). I am interested in the problem of solipsism. I write on nachlass.substack.com

I am currently the Subject Lead for Philosophy at Birkbeck. I specialise in philosophy of science. Before Birkbeck, I taught at the University of Missouri-St Louis. I received my PhD from the London School of Economics. Before switching to philosophy, I did graduate work in economics, and undergraduate work in mathematics and history.

I received my BA in Philosophy and Religion from Dartmouth College, USA, and my PhD from Harvard University. I have held appointments at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Essex University, City University London, LSE, and Birkbeck. My main area of research now is the philosophy of action and metaphysics. I am author of five books and many journal articles.

Since 2004 I have been Emeritus Professor, King's College London, after holding posts as Lecturer at Sussex and Reader at Bedford College London. I have also taught at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and in Olomouc and Prague in the Czech Republic. My main publications have been focused on problems in aesthetics. I am working now on Kant`s Critique of the Power of Judgment.

I am Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. My wife and I now live in London. My books include The Domain of Reasons and Being and Freedom. I am a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

I am professor of philosophy in King’s College, London. I work on topics in philosophy of mind and language. My most recent books are Brentano's Mind (2017) and The Disappearance of the Soul and the Turn against Metaphysics (2021); the book Lotze’s Philosophy of Psychology: Reconceiving the Soul is forthcoming in 2026.

I am a Permanent Member of the Senior Common Room at University College, Oxford. I studied at Harvard College, Sussex University and the University of London. I have taught at various universities, and am the author of three books: Colour, Philosophical Propositions and The Mind-Body Problem. My interests include the philosophy of perception and mind, metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics.