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Professor of Philosophy and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford
Tutorial Fellow of St Hugh’s College Oxford

INTERESTS
•Kant
•Wittgenstein
•History of Philosophy
•Metaphysics
•Philosophy of Mathematics
•Philosophy of Logic and Language
•Ethics
•Philosophy of Religion

CAREER
•1975 - 1978 Undergraduate at King's College Cambridge (BA in Philosophy)
•1978 - 1982 Postgraduate at Balliol College Oxford (BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy)
•1982 - 1985 Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Oxford
•1985 - 1988 Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at King’s College Cambridge
•1988 - Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at St Hugh’s College Oxford and CUF Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford
•2003 - Literary Executor for Bernard Williams
•2004 - Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford
•2014 - 2015 President of the Aristotelian Society
•2014 - 2024 Delegate of Oxford University Press
•2015 - 2025 Joint editor, with Lucy O’Brien, of MIND
•2016 - Presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the Infinite
•2017 - 2020 Vice-Principal of St Hugh's College Oxford
•2024 - Fellow of the British Academy
•2025 - Interviewer for A Philosopher and a Child, a series of YouTube interviews with children about philosophy

BOOKS
•1990 The Infinite (London: Routledge)
A revised second edition, with a new preface, was published in 2001.
A revised third edition, with a new preface, two new chapters, and a new appendix, was published in 2019.
•1997 Points of View (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
•2003 Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy (London: Routledge)
•2012 The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
•2019 Language, World, and Limits: Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
•2022 Gödel’s Theorem: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
•2023 The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGIES
•1993 (ed.) Meaning and Reference (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
•1993 (ed.) Infinity (Aldershot: Dartmouth)
•2006 (ed.) Bernard Williams, Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
•2012 (ed. jointly with Roxana Baiasu and Graham Bird) Contemporary Kantian Metaphysics: New Essays on Space and Time (Basingstoke: Macmillan)

RECREATION
•Life-long ardent Manchester City supporter