Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Adrian William Moore (born 1956) 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 (1995-6) and Chairman of the Sub-faculty of Philosophy (1997-9). He was awarded the Mind Association Research Fellowship (1999-2000) and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2006-9).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.This was followed by Points of View (Oxford University Press 1997): "... a superb book. It brings the rigour, clarity and precision of the best analytical philosophy to bear on a topic that has until now been of pointedly little concern within analytical philosophy" His third book, Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant's Moral and Religious Philosophy was reviewed very laudatorily in Mind, Times Literary Supplement and Kantian Review.His most recent book was published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press with the title The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things. It has been called an “important and remarkable book” and said to represent “an extremely impressive achievement.”. }
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- A._W._Moore_(philosopher) abstract "Adrian William Moore (born 1956) 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 (1995-6) and Chairman of the Sub-faculty of Philosophy (1997-9). He was awarded the Mind Association Research Fellowship (1999-2000) and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2006-9).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.This was followed by Points of View (Oxford University Press 1997): "... a superb book. It brings the rigour, clarity and precision of the best analytical philosophy to bear on a topic that has until now been of pointedly little concern within analytical philosophy" His third book, Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant's Moral and Religious Philosophy was reviewed very laudatorily in Mind, Times Literary Supplement and Kantian Review.His most recent book was published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press with the title The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things. It has been called an “important and remarkable book” and said to represent “an extremely impressive achievement.”".