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Dr Jeremy Butterfield FBA

Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1996
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy
Website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield

Current post

Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

Past appointments

Trinity College University of Cambridge Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

2007 -

Trinity College University of Cambridge Senior Research Fellow

2006 -

All Souls College University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow

1998 - 2006

University of Cambridge Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Reader in Philosophy

1981 - 1997

Publications

On the emergence of time in quantum gravity The arguments of time 1999

The Philosophy of Physics 2007

The arguments of time 1999

From Physics to Philosophy 1999

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Professor Rae Langton FBA

Ethical aspects of speech act theory and social epistemology; metaphysics of properties; history of philosophy, especially Kant; free speech, hate speech and media ethics; feminist perspectives on pornography and objectification

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Professor Helen Steward FBA

The metaphysics of agency and free will; causation and explanation; determinism, indeterminism and natural laws; minimal agents (e.g. plants and insects); the ontology of the mind.

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Professor Richard Holton FBA

Philosophy of mind and action; moral psychology; ethics; philosophy of law; philosophy of language

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