A.W. Moore

Who is A.W. Moore?

Adrian William Moore is a Professor of Philosophy and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. His main areas of interest are: Kant, Wittgenstein, history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic and language, ethics and philosophy of religion.

Considered "one of our very best... contemporary philosophers", A. W. Moore was awarded the John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy by Oxford University in 1980 and completed his DPhil with a thesis on Language, Time and Ontology under Michael Dummett in 1982. Between 1983 and 1985, while at University College Oxford, he acted as Junior Dean. He was the Chairman of the Oxford University Philosophical Society and Chairman of the Sub-faculty of Philosophy. He was awarded the Mind Association Research Fellowship and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

His first book, The Infinite, published by Routledge in 1990, was considered an "authoritative overview of a topic of considerable philosophical importance", a "fine book... admirably clear... [subtle and] sensitive to the philosophical issues" The book was also reviewed favourably in Philosophia Mathematica, International Philosophical Quarterly, Times Higher Education Supplement, and Choice.