Professor David Papineau
Professor of Philosophy of Science
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2351
Email david.papineau@kcl.ac.uk
Address Room 508, Philosophy Building
King's College London
Strand
LONDON
WC2R 2LS
Areas of interest
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Metaphysics
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Philosophy of science
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Philosophy of mind and psychology
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Philosophy of mathematics
Biography
David Papineau was educated in Trinidad, England, and South Africa. He has a BSc in mathematics from the University of Natal and a BA in philosophy from Cambridge. He stayed at Cambridge to work on conceptual change in science under Ian Hacking, and was awarded his PhD in 1974. Since then he has lectured at Reading University, Macquarie University, Birkbeck College London, and Cambridge University. He came to King's College as Professor of Philosophy of Science in 1990.
He was President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science from 1993 to 1995 and Editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 1993 to 1998. In 1999-2000 he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow and in 2007 a Mind Fellow. He will be President of the Mind Association for 2009-10.