Huw Price
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Huw Price FAHA (/hjuː praɪs/; born 17 May 1953) is an Australian philosopher,[3] formerly the Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge,[4] and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[5]
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Born | (1953-05-17) 17 May 1953 (age 71) Oxford, England |
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | Australian National University University of Oxford Darwin College, Cambridge |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy Neo-pragmatism |
Institutions | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Thesis | The Problem of the Single Case (1981) |
Doctoral advisor | Hugh Mellor |
Main interests | Philosophy of science |
Notable ideas | Global expressivism (anti-representationalism),[1] subject naturalism (philosophy needs to begin with what science tells us about ourselves)[2] |
Website | prce |
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He was previously Challis Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney,[6] and before that Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.[7] He is also one of three founders and the Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and the Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.