As the first talk for the 2020-21 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, this year’s Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of Professor Bill Brewer (King’s College London) as the 113th President of the Aristotelian Society. The Society’s President is elected on the basis of lifelong, exemplary work in philosophy. Please visit our Council page for further information regarding the Society’s past presidents.
The 113th Presidential Address will be chaired by Helen Steward (Leeds) – 112th President of the Aristotelian Society.
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Bill Brewer is Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London, having previously been Research Fellow at King’s College Cambridge, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and Professor of Philosophy at Warwick, and also a visiting professor at Brown and Berkeley. He is author of Perception and Reason (Oxford: OUP, 1999) and Perception and Its Objects (Oxford: OUP, 2011), and of many papers on perception, action, objects, and knowledge. He is co-editor of Spatial Representation (Oxford: OUP, 1999) and The Nature of Ordinary Objects (Cambridge: CUP, 2019). He works on Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Epistemology, and is currently returning to an abiding interest in the objectivity of perceptual experience. He is co-editor of Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Due to the Covid-19 situation, The Aristotelian Society will be holding its meetings online via Zoom until further notice. To join the presentation and discussion period for each talk you will need to follow this link. If you have any problems or concerns about the software, please contact mail@aristoteliansociety.org.uk. You do not need to have a Zoom account or to download anything in advance but we have found that the software works better on Google Chrome or Firefox, rather than other browsers. Please log into the “waiting room” at least 5 minutes in advance of each talk.
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Bill Brewer is Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London, where he has just finished a term as Head of Department. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Warwick and, before that, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He has held visiting appointments at UC Berkeley and at Brown. His research interests are in Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Epistemology, focussing in particular on their intersection in the Philosophy of Perception, but also on issues concerning the parts and persistence of macroscopic material objects, action and bodily awareness, and self-knowledge. He is the author of Perception and Reason (OUP, 1999) and Perception and Its Objects (OUP, 2011), and many papers on the nature and role of perception, the metaphysics of persistence, and issues in the metaphysics and epistemology of mind. Along with his King’s colleagues Maria Alvarez, he recently took on the role of Editor of the journal Philosophy.
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