Michael Beaney

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Michael Beaney (* 1959 in Melton ) is a British philosopher . In 2020 he was appointed Regius Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen . Parallel to this professorship, Beaney holds the professorship for the history of analytical philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Beaney graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Catherine's College of the University of Oxford , where he B.Phil and D.Phil acquired in philosophy. As a research assistant, he moved to the University of Sheffield in 1986 , where he stayed until 1988. In 1990 he started working at Birkbeck College , from where he moved to the University of Leeds in 1992 . In 1998 he moved to the University of Manchester . From 1999 to 2000 Beaney worked on a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Erlangen

From 2000 to 2005 Beaney worked at the Open University . In 2005 he took a position as a philosophy reader at the University of York . Without giving up his work in York, he received another Humboldt Research Fellowship from 2006 to 07 at the University of Jena. In 2009 he was appointed professor in the same position.

Beaney was visiting professor at Beijing University in 2011 and at Beijing Normal University in 2013 and 2014.

Research and Teaching

Beaney enjoys international recognition for his work on the history of analytical philosophy, particularly on Frege , Wittgenstein and Collingwood .

In addition to his research, Beaney is also the editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy .

bibliography

Books

  • 1996: Frege: Making Sense
  • 1997: The Frege Reader
  • 2005: Imagination and Creativity
  • 2005: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers ; 4 volumes, with Erich Reck
  • 2007: The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology
  • 2019: Aspect Perception after Wittgenstein

chapter

  • 2006: Wittgenstein on language: From simples to samples in Barry C. Smith (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language
  • 2008: Analysis in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008)
  • 2008: Wittgenstein on Language in Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language
  • 2013: The Historiography of Analytic Philosophy in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy

items

  • 2018: Twenty-Five Years of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (1): 1-10
  • 2020: Two Dogmas of Analytic Historiography in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (3): 594-614

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c New appointments in Philosophy. In: University of Aberdeen website. University of Aberdeen, May 14, 2020, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Professor Michael Beaney. Professor of Philosophy. In: King's College website, London. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Beaney, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Melton