Profile

Biography

I have been Professor of Philosophy here at York since 2009. I came to York as Reader in Philosophy in 2005. Before that, I worked at the Open University (2000–05), University of Manchester (1998–99), University of Leeds (1992–98), Birkbeck College, London (1990–92) and University of Sheffield (1986–88). I have also held Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowships in Germany at the University of Jena (2006–07) and University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (1999–2000), and was Visiting Professor at Peking University in the Autumn Semester of 2011.

Career

2011	Visiting Professor (Autumn Semester)	Peking University
2009 –	Professor of Philosophy	University of York
2006 – 2007	Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow and Visiting Professor	University of Jena
2005 – 2009	Reader in Philosophy	University of York
2004 – 2005	Senior Lecturer in Philosophy	Open University
2000 – 2004	Lecturer in Philosophy	Open University
1999 – 2000	Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow	University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
1998 – 1999	Lecturer in Philosophy	University of Manchester
1992 – 1998	Lecturer in Philosophy	University of Leeds
1990 – 1992	Lecturer in Philosophy	Birkbeck College, London
1989 – 1990	Lecturer in Philosophy (Part-time)	University of Birmingham
1988 – 1990	Associate Lecturer in Philosophy	Open University, Southern Region
1988 – 1989	College Tutor in Philosophy (Part-time)	Manchester College, Oxford
1986 – 1988	Lecturer in Philosophy	University of Sheffield
1985 – 1990	DPhil, Philosophy	Oxford University
1985 – 1986	Light Senior Scholar	St Catherine's College, Oxford
1983 – 1986	College Tutor in Philosophy (Part-time)	St Catherine's College, Oxford
1983 – 1985	BPhil, Philosophy	Oxford University
1982 – 1983	MA by thesis, Philosophy	University of Keele
1978 – 1981	BA (Hons), PPE (Philosophy and Politics)	St Catherine's College, Oxford

Departmental roles

Current roles

• Postgraduate Research Admissions Tutor 2010–
• Member of Research Committee 2008–
• Founding Co-Director of CHiPhi 2009–
• Founding Director of CRICK 2008–
• Web Officer 2005–

Previous roles

• Chair of Graduate Studies Board 2010–11
• Chair of Board of Examiners for Postgraduate Programmes 2010–11
• Member of Senior Management Team 2008–10
• Member of Teaching Committee 2007–10
• Chair of Board of Studies 2007–10
• Acting Chair of Board of Studies Summer Term 2006

University roles

• Member of University Research Committee 2012–
• Director of Research Strand on 'Modernity, Creativity and Innovation', Centre for Modern Studies 2009–11
• Member of Centre for Modern Studies 2009–
• Member of Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies 2005–

Research

Overview

Research interests

Philosophy of language, logic, mathematics and mind; history of philosophy, especially analytic philosophy; methodology and the foundations of reasoning; conceptions of analysis; creativity

Current projects

• Conceptions of analysis in the history of philosophy
• Creativity and imagination in art and science
• Logic and metaphysics in late nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, with particular reference to Frege, Cook Wilson, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Collingwood and Carnap
• Analytic philosophy and historiography

Research group(s)

• Director of CRICK
  
• Co-Director of CHiPhi

Grants

Period	Grant
July 1999 – June 2000	Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (DM 56,800)
July 2003	Alexander von Humboldt grant, accommodation, living and research expenses (€2,300)
March 2005	British Academy (£1,958), Mind Association (£400), Analysis Trust (£340), Maison Française (£210), costs for BSHP conference ‘The Varieties of Analysis’
December 2005	British Academy Overseas Conference Grant (£700)
Oct. 2006 – Dec. 2006	Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (€7,350)
April 2008	Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) grant for participation in Joint Research Programme Matchmaking Event, 19 April, Paris (€500)
April 2009	British Academy/CNRS (France) Joint Project with Marco Panza on ‘Mathematical Analysis and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy’ (£4,048)
October 2009	White Rose Collaboration Fund, to establish a Centre for History of Philosophy (CHiPhi), co-directed with Alix Cohen (Leeds) and Robert Stern (Sheffield) (£15,000)
December 2010	Mind Association, for CHiPhi inaugural conference on ‘Emotions in the History of Philosophy’, co-organised with Alix Cohen and Robert Stern (£2,000)

Available PhD research projects

I would be happy to supervise research projects in any area of the history of late nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, especially concerning the work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and/or R. G. Collingwood.

Supervision

Period	Role	Student	Topic	Awarded
1993–97	PhD Supervisor	Wonbae Choi	The Context Principle in Frege's Philosophy	June 1997, University of Leeds
1996–97	PhD Advisor	David Sarsfield	Kant on the Self	December 1997, University of Leeds
1997–98	PhD Advisor	Sandra Lapointe	Analyticity and Logical Analysis: Bolzano and Kant	January 2001, University of Leeds
2002–05	PhD Co-supervisor	Mark Rowe	Aesthetics	2008, Open University
2002–06	PhD Co-supervisor	David Knott	Be Reasonable: A Defence and Development of the Argument for Internal Reasons	July 2006, Open University
2002–08	PhD Co-supervisor	Lynn Blackadder	Ethics	Open University
2003–05	MPhil Co-supervisor	David Proud	The Free Will Problem	Open University
2006 (Spring, Summer Terms)	PhD Supervisor	Michael Wilby	How the Folk Make the Mind: Foundations for a Social-Cognitive Approach to the Intentional Mind	March 2008, University of York
2009–	PhD Supervisor	Bob Clark	Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics

PhD Examining

Publications

Selected publications

Books

• The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
• The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology, ed., London: Routledge, 2007
• Explaining the Mental: Naturalist and Non-Naturalist Approaches to Mental Acts and Processes, ed. with Carlo Penco and Massimiliano Vignolo, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007
• Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, ed. with Erich H. Reck, 4 vols., London: Routledge, 2005
• Imagination and Creativity, Milton Keynes: Open University, 2005
• The Frege Reader, ed., Oxford: Blackwell, 1997
• Frege: Making Sense, London: Duckworth, 1996 [for pdfs, see final section of this page]

Selected papers (since 2006)

• 'Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy: The Development of the Idea of Rational Reconstruction', in Erich Reck, ed., The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming
• 'Collingwood's Critique of Oxbridge Realism', in David Boucher and Teresa Smith, eds., R. G. Collingwood’s An Autobiography, rev. ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
• 'Logic and Metaphysics in Early Analytic Philosophy', in Leila Haaparanta and Heikki Koskinen, eds., Categories of Being, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 257-92
• 'Ordinary Language Philosophy', in Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell, eds., Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Routledge, 2012, pp. 873-84
• 'Frege', in Barry Lee, ed., Key Thinkers: Philosophy of Language, London: Continuum, 2011, ch.1
• 'Frege, his Logic and his Philosophy: Interview with Michael Beaney (PDF , 288kb)', with Chen Bo and Koji Nakatogawa, World Philosophy, 3 (2010), tr. into Chinese; also publ. in English in Journal of Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan, 2010
• 'Analysis', in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published April 2003, revised May 2009
• 'The Early Life of Russell's Notion of a Propositional Function', Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 4 (2008): thebalticyearbook.org/journals/baltic/article/%20view/125/80
• 'Frege's Use of Function-Argument Analysis and his Introduction of Truth-Values as Objects', in Dirk Greimann, ed., Essays on Frege’s Conception of Truth, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 75 (2007), pp. 93-123
• 'Wittgenstein on Language: From Simples to Samples', in Ernest Lepore and Barry Smith, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 40-59

Full publications list

Forthcoming

1. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. 'Über den Sinn und die Bedeutung der Titel', in Günter Löffladt, ed., Mathematik – Logik – Philosophie. Ideen und ihre historischen Wechselwirkungen, Frankfurt am Main: Harri Deutsch
3. 'Frege's Logicism and the Significance of Interpretive Analysis', in A. Arana and C. Alvarez, eds., Analytic Philosophy and the Foundations of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan
4. 'Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy: The Development of the Idea of Rational Reconstruction', in Erich Reck, ed., The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan
5. 'Collingwood's Critique of Oxbridge Realism', in David Boucher and Teresa Smith, eds., R. G. Collingwood’s An Autobiography, rev. ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press

2012

2011

1. 'Frege', in Barry Lee, ed., Key Thinkers: Philosophy of Language, London: Continuum
2. 'Putting analysis rightfully back into analytic philosophy’, Teorema, 30, no. 1, pp. 87-94. ISSN 0210-1602
3. 'The British Journal for the History of Philosophy', with John Rogers, tr. into Chinese, Chinese Social Sciences Today, 2011.1.4, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, p. 16

2010

1. 'Frege, his Logic and his Philosophy: Interview with Michael Beaney (PDF , 288kb)', with Chen Bo and Koji Nakatogawa, World Philosophy, 3, pp. 64-82, tr. into Chinese; also publ. in English in Journal of Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan, 2010
2. 'Frege', in Jon Williamson and Federica Russo, eds., Key Terms in Logic, London: Continuum
3. 'Frege's Begriffsschrift', in Jon Williamson and Federica Russo, eds., Key Terms in Logic, London: Continuum
4. 'On Putting Thoughts in Your Own Words: An Answer to the Question: "What is Wrong with Plagiarism?"', Dialectic (York Philosophy Society), 7, pp. 25-9

2009

1. 'Analysis', in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, revised entry May 2009 [revised version of 2007.7 below]
2. 'Review of Rosalind Carey, Russell and Wittgenstein on the Nature of Judgement (London: Continuum, 2007)', Mind, 118, No. 470 (April 2009), pp. 453-9. ISSN 0026-4423

2008

1. 'The Early Life of Russell's Notion of a Propositional Function', Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 4: thebalticyearbook.org/journals/baltic/article/%20view/125/80
2. 'Function-Argument Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy', in Peter Bernhard and Volker Peckhaus, eds., Methodisches Denken im Kontext, Paderborn: mentis, pp. 199-213. ISBN 978-3-89785-594-6
3. 'Review of Bernard Linsky and Guido Imaguire, eds., On Denoting: 1905 – 2005 (München: Philosophia Verlag, 2005)', History and Philosophy of Logic, 29. ISSN 0144-5340
4. 'Review Essay: Stewart Candlish, The Russell/Bradley Dispute and its Significance for Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)’, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 14, No. 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 115-23. ISSN 1744-9413

2007

1. The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology, ed., London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-38167-3 (hardback), 978-0-203-93970-3 (e-book)
2. 'The Analytic Turn in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy', introduction to Michael Beaney, ed., The Analytic Turn, London: Routledge, pp. 1-30. [See 1 above]
3. 'Conceptions of Analysis in the Early Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions: Some Comparisons and Relationships' [abridged and revised version of 2002.1 below], in Michael Beaney, ed., The Analytic Turn, London: Routledge, pp. 196-216. [See 1 above]
4. Explaining the Mental: Naturalist and Non-Naturalist Approaches to Mental Acts and Processes, ed. with Carlo Penco and Massimiliano Vignolo, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. ISBN 1-84718-297-6; ISBN 13: 9781847182975
5. 'Introduction', with Carlo Penco and Massimiliano Vignolo, introduction to Carlo Penco, Michael Beaney and Massimiliano Vignolo, eds., Explaining the Mental, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. vi-xxxiv. [See 4 above]
6. 'Frege's Use of Function-Argument Analysis and his Introduction of Truth-Values as Objects', in Dirk Greimann, ed., Essays on Frege's Conception of Truth, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 75, pp. 93-123
7.  'Analysis', in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, revised entry August 2007 [revised version of 2003.2 below], 64pp. text + 66pp. quotations + 94pp. bib.
8.  'Is Analytic Philosophy an Illusion? A Reply to Preston', The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, Nos. 132-3 (Double Issue, November 2006/February 2007). ISSN 1547-0334
9.  'Review of Joan Weiner, Frege Explained (Chicago: Open Court, 2004)', Philosophia Mathematica (III), 15, No. 1 (February 2007), pp. 126-8. ISSN 0031-8019
10.  'Review of Richard L. Mendelsohn, The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15 (May 2007), pp. 818-22. ISSN 0960-8788

2006

1. 'Frege and the Role of Historical Elucidation: Methodology and the Foundations of Mathematics', in José Ferreirós and Jeremy Gray, eds., The Architecture of Modern Mathematics: Essays in History and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 49-71
2. 'Soames on Philosophical Analysis' (Critical Notice of Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century), Philosophical Books, 47 (July 2006), pp. 255-71. ISSN 0031-8051
3. 'Wittgenstein on Language: From Simples to Samples', in Ernest Lepore and Barry Smith, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 40-59
4. 'Appreciating the Varieties of Analysis: a Reply to Ongley', The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, Nos. 128-9 (Double Issue, November 2005/February 2006), pp. 42-9. ISSN 1547-0334
5. 'Rex Martin's Reading of Collingwood's Essay on Metaphysics', Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 12, No. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 83-102. ISSN 1744-9413
6. 'Naturalism and Mathematical Platonism', Erwägen Wissen Ethik, 17, no.3 (December 2006), pp. 55-6
7. 'Frege and the Paradox of Analysis' [shortened version of 2005(13) below], Anales de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires, 39, Buenos Aires: Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires
8. 'Analytic Philosophy', in Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Oxford: Elsevier, 2006, Vol. 1, pp. 203-6. ISBN 0-08-044299-4
9. 'Verificationism', in Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Oxford: Elsevier, 2006, Vol. 13, pp. 411-14. ISBN 0-08-044299-4
10. 'Analytic Philosophy', in Anthony Grayling, Andrew Pyle and Naomi Goulder, eds., The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, London: Continuum/Thoemmes, 2006, pp. 85-92. ISBN 1-84371-141-9
11. 'Review of Tyler Burge, Truth, Thought, Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)', Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006.07.13 (July 2006), 6pp.

2005

1. Imagination and Creativity, Open University, 2005, x + 301 pp. ISBN 0-7492-9644-5. (Book 4 of the OU Course AA308: Thought and Experience: Themes in the Philosophy of Mind)
2. Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. I: Frege's Philosophy in Context, ed. with Erich H. Reck, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 424 + xxvi. ISBN 0-415-30602-7. (Four volume set: ISBN 0-415-30601-9)
3. Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. II: Frege's Philosophy of Logic, ed. with Erich H. Reck, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 417 + viii. ISBN 0-415-30603-5
4. Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. III: Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics, ed. with Erich H. Reck, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 407 + viii. ISBN 0-415-30604-3
5. Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. IV: Frege's Philosophy of Thought and Language, ed. with Erich H. Reck, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 413 + viii. ISBN 0-415-30605-1
6. 'General Introduction: Principles of Selection and Organisation', with Erich H. Reck, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. I: Frege's Philosophy in Context, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1-4. [See 2 above]
7. 'Introduction: Frege's Philosophy in Context', with Erich H. Reck, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. I: Frege's Philosophy in Context, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 5-19. [See 2 above]
8. 'Frege's Life and Work: Chronology and Bibliography', with Christian Thiel, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. I: Frege's Philosophy in Context, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 23-39. [See 2 above]
9. 'Frege, Russell and Logicism' [shortened and revised version of 2003.1 below], in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. I: Frege's Philosophy in Context, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 213-40. [See 2 above]
10. 'Introduction: Frege's Philosophy of Logic', with Erich H. Reck, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. II: Frege's Philosophy of Logic, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1-10. [See 3 above]
11. 'Introduction: Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics', with Erich H. Reck, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. III: Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1-12. [See 4 above]
12. 'Introduction: Frege's Philosophy of Thought and Language', with Erich H. Reck, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. IV: Frege's Philosophy of Thought and Language , London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1-10. [See 5 above]
13. 'Sinn, Bedeutung and the Paradox of Analysis', in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments, Vol. IV: Frege's Philosophy of Thought and Language, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 288-310. [See 5 above]
14. 'The Rise and Fall of German Philosophy' (Essay Review of Thomas Baldwin, ed., The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945), British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 13 (August 2005), pp. 543-62. ISSN 0960-8788
15. 'Collingwood's Conception of Presuppositional Analysis', Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 11, no.2, pp. 41-114. ISSN 1744-9413
16. 'Duncan-Jones, Austin Ernest (1908-67)', in Stuart Brown, ed., Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. ISBN 1-84371-096-X. Reprinted in Anthony Grayling, Andrew Pyle and Naomi Goulder, eds., The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, London: Continuum/Thoemmes, 2006, pp. 916-17. ISBN 1-84371-141-9
17. 'Stebbing, Lizzie Susan (1885-1943)', in Stuart Brown, ed., Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. ISBN 1-84371-096-X. Reprinted in Anthony Grayling, Andrew Pyle and Naomi Goulder, eds., The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, London: Continuum/Thoemmes, 2006, pp. 3023-8. ISBN 1-84371-141-9
18. 'Review of Erich H. Reck and Steve Awodey, eds., Frege's Lectures on Logic: Carnap's Student Notes, 1910-1914 (Open Court, 2004)', The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 11 (September 2005), pp. 445-7. ISSN 1079-8986

2004

1. 'Carnap's Conception of Explication: From Frege to Husserl?', in Steve Awodey and Carsten Klein, eds., Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena, Chicago: Open Court, 2004, pp. 117-50. ISBN 0-8126-9551-8
2. 'Gottlob Frege: The Light and Dark Sides of Genius' (Essay Review of Lothar Kreiser, Gottlob Frege: Leben – Werk – Zeit), British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 12 (February 2004), pp. 159-68. ISSN 0960-8788
3. 'Review of Gregory Currie and Ian Ravenscroft, Recreative Minds (OUP, 2002)', Philosophical Books, 45 (October 2004), pp. 367-70. ISSN 0031-8051

2003

1. 'Russell and Frege', in Nicholas Griffin, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Russell, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 128-70. ISBN 0-521-63634-5. Repr. in a shortened and revised form as 2005.9 above
2. 'Analysis', in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published in April 2003, 50pp. + 70pp. bib.
3. 'Susan Stebbing on Cambridge and Vienna Analysis', in Friedrich Stadler, ed., The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 10 [2002], Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003, pp. 339-50. ISBN 1-4020-1269-1
4. 'Review of Peter Bernhard, Euler-Diagramme (Paderborn: Mentis, 2001)', The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 9 (September 2003), pp. 412-4. ISSN 1079-8986
5. 'Review of Peter A. Schouls, Descartes and the Possibility of Science (Cornell University Press, 2000)', Philosophical Books, 44 (October 2003), pp. 338-9. ISSN 0031-8051

2002

1. 'Decompositions and Transformations: Conceptions of Analysis in the Early Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions', Southern Journal of Philosophy, 40 (2002), Supp. Vol., pp. 53-99. ISSN 0038-4283
2. 'Kant and Analytic Methodology' [Review of Robert Hanna, Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001); Brigitte Falkenburg, Kants Kosmologie (Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 2000); Michael Otte and Marco Panza, eds., Analysis and Synthesis in Mathematics (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1997)], British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 10 (August 2002), pp. 455-66. ISSN 0960-8788
3. 'Doing Postgraduate Research in Philosophy', chapter 2 of A850 The Postgraduate Foundation Module in Philosophy, Open University MA in Philosophy course book

2001

1. 'Collingwood's Critique of Analytic Philosophy', Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 8 (2001), pp. 99-122. ISSN 1356-0670, ISBN 0-9524393-7-9
2. 'Conceptions of Logical Analysis' [shorter but revised version of 2000(1) below], in Ondrej Majer, ed., The Logica Yearbook 2000, Prague: Filosofia, 2001, pp. 57-70. ISBN 80-7007-149-4
3. 'From Conceptual Analysis to Serious Metaphysics' (Critical Notice of Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics), International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 9 (November 2001), pp. 521-9. ISSN 0967-2559
4. 'Rationality and Reasonableness' [revised version of 2000.2 below], in B. Brogaard and B. Smith, eds., Rationality and Irrationality / Rationalität und Irrationalität: Proceedings of the 23rd International Wittgenstein Symposium , Vienna: öbv & hpt, 2001, pp. 18-24. ISBN 3-209-03648-9
5. 'Review of Gilead Bar-Elli, The Sense of Reference (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996)', Mind, 110 (January 2001), pp. 160-3. ISSN 0026-4423

2000

1. 'Conceptions of Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy', Acta Analytica, 15 (Issue 25, 2000), pp. 97-115. ISSN 0353 5150
2. 'Rationality and Reasonableness', in Berit Brogaard, ed., Rationality and Irrationality, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Volume 8, Part 1 (Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2000), pp. 64-9. ISSN 1022 3398
3. 'Review of Gottfried Gabriel and Wolfgang Kienzler, eds., Frege in Jena: Beiträge zur Spurensicherung (Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 1997)', Isis, 91 (March 2000), pp. 165-6. ISSN 0021-1753
4. 'Review of Gottlob Frege, Zwei Schriften zur Arithmetik, ed. Wolfgang Kienzler (Georg Olms, Hildesheim, 1999)', History and Philosophy of Logic, 21 (2000), pp. 235-6. ISSN 0144-5340
5. 'Review of Clare Ortiz Hill, Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics: On the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (Yale University Press, 1997)', British Society for the History of Philosophy Newsletter, New Series: Vol. 5 (2000), pp. 17-19. ISSN 0951-5151

1999

1. 'Presuppositions and the Paradoxes of Confirmation', Disputatio, 6 (May 1999), pp. 28-34. ISSN 0873-626X
   
2. 'Review of Nathan Houser, Don D. Roberts and James Van Evra, eds., Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce (Indiana University Press, 1997)', Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 38, no. 4 (1999), pp. 888-90. ISSN 0012-2173

1998

1. 'What is Analytic Philosophy? Recent Work on the History of Analytic Philosophy' [Review of Ray Monk and Anthony Palmer, eds., Bertrand Russell and the Origins of Analytical Philosophy (Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 1996); Hans-Johann Glock, ed., The Rise of Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1997); Matthias Schirn, ed., Frege: Importance and Legacy (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996); Stuart G. Shanker, ed., Philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IX (Routledge, 1996); John Blackmore, ed., Ludwig Boltzmann: His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906 (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995)], British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 6 (October 1998), pp. 463-72. ISSN 0960-8788
2. 'Re-engendering Logic: Feminism and the History and Philosophy of Logic', in Sasha Roseneil, ed., Feminist Scholarship: Within/Across/Between/Beyond the Disciplines, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds, Working Paper 1, Autumn 1998
3. 'Review of Jan Dejnozka, The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and Its Origins (Lanham, Maryland: Littlefield Adams Books, 1996)', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 6 (October 1998), pp. 451-4. ISSN 0967-2559

1997

1. The Frege Reader, ed., Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 409 + xvi. ISBN 0-631-19444-4 (hardback), 0-631-19445-2 (paperback)
   
2. 'Introduction' to The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 1-46
3. 'Chronology of Frege's Life and Works', Appendix 1 of The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 374-5
4. 'Frege's Logical Notation', Appendix 2 of The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 376-85
5. 'Guide to Further Reading', Appendix 3 of The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 386-8
6. Translation of Frege, Begriffsschrift, Preface and Part I; in The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 47-74
7. Translation of Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic, Introduction and §§ 1-4, 45-69, 87-91, 104-9; in The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 84-129
8. Translation of Frege, Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Volume I, Preface (edited), Introduction and §§ 1-7, 26-9, 32-3; in The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 194-223

1996

1. Frege: Making Sense, London: Duckworth, 1996, pp. 358 + x. ISBN 0-7156-2712-0
2. 'Review of Wolfgang Carl, Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference (CUP, 1994) and Anthony Kenny, Frege (Penguin, 1995)', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 4 (July 1996), pp. 328-30. ISSN 0967-2559

1995

1. 'Review of Lawrence E. Johnson, Focusing on Truth (Routledge, 1992)', Philosophical Quarterly, 45 (January 1995), pp. 129-31. ISSN 0031-8094

1992

1. 'Analytic Philosophy and History', Philosophaster, University of Birmingham, 1992

1991

1. 'Modern Philosophy from Bacon and Descartes to Kant', study notes for the University of London BA Philosophy External Degree, 1991

1988

1. 'Review of Edward Craig, The Mind of God and the Works of Man (OUP, 1987)', Philosophical Investigations, 11 (July 1988), pp. 270-5. ISSN 0190-0536

1987

1. 'Mistakes and Mismatches: a Reply to Rudebusch', Mind, 96 (January 1987), pp. 95-8. ISSN 0026-4423

Recordings

Podcast on analysis and creativity

PDFs available online

Frege

Frege: Making Sense (1996)

Papers

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Creativity (2nd year, 2010)
• Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (2nd year, 2009)
• History of Early Analytic Philosophy (2nd/3rd year, 2009, 2011)
• Foundations of Mathematics (2nd/3rd year, 2008, 2009)
• Puzzles and Paradoxes (2nd/3rd year, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010)
• Philosophy of Language (2nd year, 2006)
• Introduction to Metaphysics (1st year, 2005)
  

Postgraduate

• MA in Philosophy of Art (2 seminars on creativity, 2008)
  
• MA project supervision: Kant (2006), Imagination (2006), Wittgenstein (2006, 2008, 2009), Philosophical Methodology (2009, 2011), Creativity (2009, 2011)

Other teaching

Peking University (Autumn 2011)

Open University (2000–05)

University of Manchester (1998–99)

University of Leeds (1992–98)

External activities

Memberships

British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP)

• Editor, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2011–
• Associate Editor, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2008–11
• Membership Secretary, 1997–99
• Treasurer, 1996–99
• Web Editor, 1996–2011
• Member of Management Committee, 1995–

Other Societies

• Aristotelian Society
• Bertrand Russell Society
• British Philosophical Association
• Collingwood Society (Honorary Life Member)
• Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie
• Hegel Society of Great Britain
• History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
• Humboldt Association, UK
• Institute of the Vienna Circle
• Kant Society (UK)
• Mind Association
• Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy

Editorial duties

Editing

• Editor, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2011–
• Associate Editor, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2008–11
• Series Editor, Book Series on History of Analytic Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006–
• Series Editor, Series of 8 Volumes on the History of Philosophy, Continuum Books, 2006–

Editorial Board Membership

• Advisory Board, Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy, 2010–
• Editorial Board, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 2008–
• Advisory Board, Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Review of Contemporary Philosophy, Analysis and Metaphysics (three Romanian journals), 2005–

Refereeing

• Reader's reports on proposals and typescripts for Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Continuum, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Polity Press, Routledge
• Articles refereed for American Philosophical Quarterly, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, Dialectica, Dialogue, Erkenntnis, Grazer Philosophische Studien, History and Philosophy of Logic, HOPOS, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, Mind, Nous, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophia, Philosophia Mathematica, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, Science in Context, Synthese, The Sociological Review, Thought
• Member of AHRC Peer Review College (Academic and International), 2010–

External examining

Invited talks and conferences

Conference and workshop organization

Conference papers (since 2000)

Research seminar papers (since 2000)