D.H. Mellor
David Hugh Mellor is an English philosopher , moonlighting actor, previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor , currenty professor Emeritus of Cambridge University.
[edit] Biography
Mellor was born on 10 July 1938 in London. After studying chemical engineering at university, he took up philosophy.
His primary work is metaphysics though including interests in , philosophy of science, philosophy of mind: probability, time and causation, laws of nature and properties, and decision theory. Mellor was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Darwin College from 1971 to 2005. As a professor he was the subject of extensive media coverage as the main opponent of the conferment of an honorary degree to the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1992 to 1993, a member of the Humanist Philosophers' Group of the British Humanist Association and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In retirement Mellor now holds the title of Emeritus Professor.[1][2]
[edit] Publications
The Matter of Chance (1971), Real Time (1981),[3] Matters of Metaphysics (1991), The Facts of Causation (1995), Real Time II (1998)[4] and Probability: A Philosophical Introduction (2005).
A festschrift, Real Metaphysics, (Hallvard Lillehammer and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra ed ) ( 2003 ).
[edit] References
- ^ University of Cambridge (updated on December 13, 2011) © 2008 University of Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA Retrieved 2012-01-25
- ^ Hugh Mellor's web pages Retrieved 26 October 2005
- ^ 216 pages CUP Archive, 31 May 1985 Retrieved 2012-01-25 ISBN 0521284686
- ^ 146 pages Routledge, 22 Jun 1998 Retrieved 2012-01-25 ISBN 0415097819
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