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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
•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
•2004 - Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford
•2014 - 2015 President of the Aristotelian Society
•2014 - 2019 Delegate of Oxford University Press
•2015 - Joint editor, with Lucy O’Brien, of MIND
•2017 - 2020 Vice-Principal of St Hugh's College Oxford

BOOKS
•1990 The Infinite (London: Routledge)
A revised second edition, with a new preface, was published in 2001.
•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)

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