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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.

• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of science
• Philosophy of mind and psychology
• Philosophy of mathematics

Professor Papineau works on issues in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mind and psychology. He has written For Science in the Social Sciences (1978), Theory and Meaning (1979), Reality and Representation (1987), Philosophical Naturalism (1993) and Introducing Consciousness (2000), and he edited Philosophy of Science (1996) and Teleosemantics (2006).  His Thinking about Consciousness was published in 2002 and The Roots of Reason, a collection of essays on rationality, decision, and evolution, in 2003.

Books (monographs)

• Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets
  Oxford University Press 2012
  ISBN: 978-0-19-965172-6
  Also available in paperback – ISBN: 978-0-19-965173-3
• The Roots of Reason: Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution and Probability
  Oxford University Press 2003
  ISBN: 978-0-19-924-384-6
  Also available in paperback - ISBN: 978-0-19-928871-7
• Thinking about Consciousness
  Oxford University Press, 2002
  280 pages / ISBN: 978-0-19-924382-2
  Also available in paperback - ISBN: 978-019927115-3
• Introducing Consciousness, Icon Books 2000
• Philosophical Naturalism, Basil Blackwell 1993
  You can read this book online here
• Reality and Representation, Basil Blackwell 1987
• Theory and Meaning, Oxford University Press 1979
• For Science in the Social Sciences, Macmillan 1978

Books (edited volumes)

• Essays on Teleosemantics, Edited with Introduction (with Graham Macdonald), Oxford University Press 2006
• Philosophy, Edited with Introduction, Duncan Baird, 2004
• The Philosophy of Science, Edited with Introduction, Oxford University Press, 1996

Complete publication lists

• Monographs (link)
• Online articles and book chapters (link)
• Discussion notes (link)
• Reviews (link)

More publications (pdf)

Professor Papineau currently teaches on the following courses:
 
Undergraduate modules:

• 4AANB008 Methodology 
• 5AANA010 Metaphysics II 

Professor Papineau also supervises BA and MA dissertations, and a number of MPhilSt and PhD research students.

Professor Papineau supervises a number of MPhilSt and PhD research students; full details of which you can see by consulting his research gateway profile.

He welcomes enquiries from prospective students seeking supervision in areas connected to his research interests.

Videos

• 'Consciousness and the Brain'  at the launch of the Bristol University Centre for Science and Philosophy (December 2012)
• In the Zone: Spontaneity and Mental Discipline in Sport and Beyond
  A debate with Michael Brearley at LSE on 08 November 2012.
• David Papineau & Philip Goff debate Physicalism
  On Philosophy TV (September 2012)
• How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Materialism
  David Papineau and Barry C Smith, Persons and Their Brains, Ian Ramsey Centre Oxford, 11-14 July 2012
• On Telling What It Is Like
  From the Human Experience and Nature, Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference 2011, UWE, Bristol.
• A video of a talk at Haberdasher's School Nov 2009: on Mind and Brain
• A video of a talk in Hertfordshire June 2009: Pheneomenal Concepts and Private Languages
• A video of a talk at the Perimeter Institue Nov 2007: Probabilities and Many Worlds
• A video of a talk at the Institut Jean Nicod Jan 2004: Frank Jackson and the Knowledge Argument

Broadcasts, podcasts, etc.

• A broadcast/podcast with Keith Ward on Premier Radio's Unbelieveable Jan 2012: Is the Mind More Than Matter?
• An audio of a talk at the Institute of Philosophy/Hertfordshire Phen Quals Project Jan 2010: Can We Really See a Million Colours?
• An audio of a talk at the Institute of Philosophy Dec 2009: The Importance of Intuition
• An audio of a talk in Herfordshire in Oct 2009: on Phenomenal Concepts
• An audio of a talk in Oslo June 2009: There are No Norms of Belief
• An audio of a debate with Tim Lewens at the LSE June 2009: on Darwin and Philosophy
• "Philosophy Bites" podcast 2009: on Scientific Realism
• Comment on "The New New Mysterianism" by Derek Ball Feb 2009 in a Consciousness Online conference
• An audio of a talk in Sydney Jan 2009: on Woodward on Causation (it's in the mp3s in 'CausationDecision2009')
• BBC Radio 4's “In Our Time” Nov 2008: on Neuroscience and Consciousness
• An audio of a talk in Dusseldorf Apr 2008: Reduction or Elimination
• "Philosophy Bites" podcast 2007: on Physicalism
• An audio of a lecture at the Royal Society for Arts Nov 2007: The Case for Secularism
• BBC Radio 4's "The Learning Curve" Jun 2007: some thoughts on the Research Assessment Exercise 2008
• BBC Radio 4's “In Our Time” May 2002: on Chaos Theory