Presentation

David Papineau has held a number of academic posts at the universities of Reading, Macquarie, Birkbeck London and Cambridge. Since 1990, he has pursued his career at King's College London and, from 2015 to 2020, he taught one semester of each academic year at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has served as President of the British Society for Philosophy of Science, the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society. His books include Theory and Meaning (1980), Philosophical Naturalism (1992), Thinking about Consciousness (2002), Philosophical Devices (2012), Knowing the Score (2017) and The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience (2021). He is currently interested in the concept of causality.

Guest Lecturer

Selected bibliography

  • Swampman, Teleosemantics and Kind Essences

    "Swampman, Teleosemantics and Kind Essences", Synthese, 2022.

  • The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience

    "The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience", Oxford University Press, 2021.

  • Teleosemantics, Selection and Novel Contents

    "Teleosemantics, Selection and Novel Contents" (with Justin Garson), Biology and Philosophy, 2019.

  • Teleosemantics

    "Teleosemantics" in D L Smith (ed) How Biology Shapes Philosophy, 2016.

  • Recanati On Mental Files

    "Recanati On Mental Files", Disputatio, 2014.

  • What Is Wrong With Strong Necessities?

    "What Is Wrong With Strong Necessities?" (with Philip Goff), Philosophical Studies, 2013.

  • Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities and Sets

    "Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities and Sets", Oxford University Press, 2012.

  • Phenomenal and Perceptual Concepts

    "Phenomenal and Perceptual Concepts" in T. Alter and S. Walter (eds) ,Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 2006.

  • Thinking about Consciousness

    "Thinking about Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 2002.

  • Philosophical Naturalism

    "Philosophical Naturalism, Basil Blackwell, 1993.