Présentation

David Papineau a occupé plusieurs postes académiques aux universités de Reading, Macquarie, Birkbeck London et Cambridge. Depuis 1990, il poursuit sa carrière à King's College London et, pendant la période allant de 2015 à 2020, il a enseigné un semestre de chaque année académique au Graduate Center de la City University de New York. Il a été président de la British Society for Philosophy of Science, la Mind Association et l'Aristotelian Society. Parmi ses ouvrages, on peut citer Theory and Meaning (1980), Philosophical Naturalism (1992), Thinking about Consciousness (2002), Philosophical Devices (2012), Knowing the Score (2017) et The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience (2021). À l'heure actuelle, il s'intéresse au concept de causalité.

Intervention(s) comme Conférencier invité

Bibliographie sélective

  • 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.