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Dr. Stephen Mulhall:


 

 

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, New College

Interests
Wittgenstein
Post-Kantian Philosophy (especially Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger)
Post-Analytic Philosophy
Ethics
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy and Literature
Philosophy and Film

Career
1980-83 Balliol College, Oxford: BA in Philosophy, Politics, Economics
1983-84 University of Toronto: MA in Philosophy
1984-88 Balliol College/All Souls College, Oxford: D.Phil in Philosophy
1986-91 Prize Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
1991-98 Reader in Philosophy, University of Essex
1998-     Fellow of New College, Oxford
2008-    Awarded title of 'Professor of Philosophy'

Books
1990 On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects (Routledge)
1992 Liberals and Communitarians (Blackwell) - with Adam Swift
1994 Stanley Cavell: Philosophy’s Recounting of the Ordinary (OUP)
1994 Faith and Reason (Duckworth)
1996 Heidegger and Being and Time (Routledge)
1996 Liberals and Communitarians: a Revised Edition (Blackwell) - with Adam Swift
1996 The Cavell Reader (Blackwell) - editor
2001 Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard (OUP)
2002 On Film (Routledge)
2005 Philosophical Myths of the Fall (Princeton)
2005 Heidegger and Being and Time (2nd Edition)
2006 Martin Heidegger: International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought (Ashgate) - editor
2006 Wittgenstein' Private Language (OUP)
2007 The Conversation of Humanity (University of Virginia Press)
2008 On Film: Second Edition (Routledge)
2009 The Wounded Animal: J.M.Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality (Princeton)

Some Recent Papers
'Wittgenstein's Temple: Three Styles of Philosophical Architecture', in Sanders (ed), D.Z.Phillips' Contemplative Philosophy of Religion (Ashgate: London)
'The Presentation of the Infinite in the Finite: The Place of God in Post-Kantian Philosophy', in Leiter and Rosen (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy (OUP: Oxford)
'The Violence of Paint', in Inquiry, Vol 51, no 6