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David Papineau holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Natal and a BA and PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge. He has held academic posts at Reading, Macquarie, Birkbeck, and Cambridge, and has been a faculty member at King's College London since 1990. Between 2015 and 2021, he spent half a year at the Graduate Center of CUNY in New York City. Papineau served as President of the Mind Association in 2009 and of the Aristotelian Society in 2014. He has published extensively in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science and mind. His notable works include 'Science and Social Sciences' (1979), 'Theory of Meaning' (1990), 'Reality and Representation' (1987), 'Philosophical Naturalism' (1992), 'Thinking About Consciousness' (2002), 'Philosophical Devices' (2012), and 'Knowing About the Score' (2017). Currently, his research mainly focuses on causation, mental representation, and consciousness, and he supervises PhD students across a wide range of philosophical topics.
King's College London • London, England
Conducting research and teaching in the Department of Philosophy.
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