Supervision, Teaching, and Introducing Philosophy

I’m interested in supervising or co-supervising research students working on: philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics and logic, most areas of metaphysics and many areas of epistemology. For the Oxford BPhil, I supervise the Original Authorities for the Rise of Modern Logic, Philosophical Logic and the Philosophy of Language (with a slant towards logic), Frege (with a slant towards logic and the philosophy of mathematics), Metaphysics and Epistemology, and some parts of Formal Logic.

At Oxford my lecture courses/seminars have been on: Philosophy of Mathematics, Probability and Belief, Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic, Bayesian Epistemology.

The undergraduate papers I regularly teach are: the various Oxford logic papers (Introduction to Logic, Elements of Deductive Logic, Formal Logic), Knowledge and Reality, General Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics, Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic, Philosophy of Logic and Language, and Philosophy of Science. I occasionally teach Intermediate Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, and Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein.

I also enjoy giving talks to secondary schools and general audiences. I’m currently writing a popular introduction to the philosophy of mathematics aimed at anyone with an interest in maths susceptible to wondering what it’s about. The book is provisionally entitled The Paradox of Numbers and should be finished in 2009.

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