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Professor Jon Elster FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1991
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy
Website
http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/jon-elster

Current post

Robert K Merton Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David Papineau FBA

David Papineau has worked in many areas of philosophy, including scientific realism, representation, evolution and cognitive structure, consciousness, perception, physicalism, probability and natural kinds. He is currently completing a project arguing that statistical practice holds the key to the nature of causation. His ten books include Reality and Representation, Thinking about Consciousness, Philosophical Devices and The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience.

Professor David Papineau FBA

Professor Alain De Libera FBA

The history of late Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Theology with a focus on the history of logic, philosophy of mind and metaphysics

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Dr Wilfrid Hodges FBA

Links between logic and semantics, including model-theoretic definitions of mathematical constructions, formal semantics for sentences with scope peculiarities, the logic of Ibn Sina and its semantic foundations

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