Undergraduate at King’s College, Cambridge (BA in Philosophy)
1978 – 1982
Postgraduate at Balliol College, Oxford (BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy)
Career
1982 - 1985
Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Oxford
1985 - 1988
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at King’s College, Cambridge
1988 - 2004
Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford and CUF Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford
2003 - present
Literary executor for Bernard Williams
2004 - present
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford
2014 - 2015
President of the Aristotelian Society
2014 - 2024
Delegate of Oxford University Press
2015
Joint editor, with Lucy O’Brien, of MIND
2016
Presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the Infinite
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.
A revised third edition, with a new preface, two new chapters, and a new appendix, was published in 2019.
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)
2019, Language, World, and Limits: Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
2022, Gödel’s Theorem: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
2023, The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics (Oxford: Oxford 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)
