Professor Harvey Brown FBA

Philosophy of physics; foundations of quantum mechanics, relativity theory and thermal physics, the role of symmetry principles in physics.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy

Current post

Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor M. M. McCabe FBA

Philosophy: Ancient philosophy especially Plato's metaphysics, epistemology and ethics; ethics; the philosophy of medicine

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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 Amartya Sen FBA

Economics Philosophy

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