Bill Mander

bill mander
Professor of Philosophy
Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Harris Manchester College
william.mander@hmc.ox.ac.uk
1990 Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford
1990 D.Phil, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
1988 B.Phil, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
1986 B.A., University College London

 

Authored books

The Unknowable; A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Metaphysics, Oxford: OUP 2020

Idealist Ethics, Oxford: OUP 2016
British Idealism, a History, Oxford: OUP 2011
The Philosophy of John Norris, Oxford: OUP 2008

 

Edited books

British Idealism and the Concept of the Self, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.  (with Stamatoula Panagakou).
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 
T.H.Green: Ethics, Metaphysics and Political Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. (with Maria Dimova Cookson).
Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002 (with A.P.F.Sell)

 

Articles 

‘Hodgson, Clifford, and the Unseen Universe,’ in C.Marshall, B,Lightman & R.England (eds), The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp.162-181

On Some ‘Speculative Extensions’ of T.H. Green’s Eternal Consciousness Doctrine’ Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 2019, 25:1, pp.17-43 
‘The Idealism of the British Idealists’ Philosophical Enquiries; Revue des philosophies anglophones, 2018, Hors-série 1, pp.23-42

‘The Unreality of Evil’ Sophia, 57:2, 2018, pp 249–264 (Published online: 23 March 2017)
‘Emotion and Satisfaction in the Philosophy of F.H.Bradley’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26:4, 2018, pp. 681-699 (Published online: 06 Feb 2017)c
‘New Conceptions of Transcendence in the Thought of The British Idealists’ History of European Ideas, 43:3, 2017,  pp.241-250

‘Idealism, Narrative and the Mind-Brain Relation’ Review of Metaphysics, 71:1, 2017, pp.3-24
‘Ferrier, the Unknowable and the Origins of British Idealism’ Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2017, 99:2, pp.194-211
‘On  the Consistency of Pantheism’ European Journal of the Philosophy of Religion, 2017, 9:1, pp.1-17

‘Idealism and the True Self’ in British Idealism and the Concept of the Self, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp.287-309
‘William Hamilton on Causation’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2015, 23:2, pp.333-48
‘British Idealism and education for citizenship’ in Thom Brooks (ed) Ethical Citizenship: British Idealism and the Politics of Recognition (Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy) 2014, pp.139-158

‘The Philosophy of Shadworth Hodgson,’ in The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press,  2014, pp.173-88
‘Hegel and British Idealism,’ in L.Herzog (ed) Hegel’s Thought in Europe; currents, crosscurrents and undercurrents, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp.65-76
‘On arguing for the existence of god as a synthesis between realism and anti-realism,’ International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013, 74:1, pp.99-115

‘British Idealist Ethics,’ in R.Crisp (ed) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp.564-80
‘Pantheism,’ entry for Stanford Online Encylopedia of Philosophy (October 2012)

 

  • Nineteenth Century British Philosophy (especially British Idealism) 
  • Early Modern Philosophy (especially Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, John Norris, Berkeley) 
  • Philosophy of Religion (especially pantheism) 
  • Metaphysics (especially idealism) 
  • Kant 
  • Hegel 
  • Schopenhauer

History of Modern Philosophy