Stephen Boulter

Senior Lecturer and Field Chair of Philosophy and Ethics

Department of History, Philosophy and Religion - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research activities

Details of my research

Stephen Boulter is Senior Lecturer and Field Chair of Philosophy and Ethics within the Division of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Background

He has an Hons BA and MA from the University of McMaster (Canada) and a PhD from the University of Glasgow.
Before coming to Oxford Brookes Stephen was Gifford Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

Research and Consultancy

His research interests include the philosophy of language, the philosophy of evolutionary biology, perception, metaphysics, virtue ethics and metaethics, Aristotle and medieval philosophy. He has also been contracted to the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum (SCCC) as a Development Officer and National Trainer of the new Scottish Higher and Advanced Higher in Philosophy (the Scottish equivalent of the English A-Level) in the past.

Recent Conference Papers

“What Philosophy Is”, delivered at the Cave Hill Symposium on Conceptualising Philosophy. The University of the West Indies, April 2005.

“Evolutionary theory and Reid’s metaphilosophy of common sense”, delivered at Hume and His Critics: A Conference on the Scottish Enlightenment. Baylor University, Texas, USA. May 2005.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

The Resdicovery of Common Sense. Monograph forthcoming in 2007 with Palgrave MacMillan.

‘The “evolutionary argument” and the metaphilosophy of common sense’, forthcoming in Biology and Philosophy.

"Aquinas and Searle on Singular Thoughts", forthcoming in Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue. Editor, Craig Paterson (Ashgate).

“The Common Sense Tradition in British Philosophy”, forthcoming in the Thoemmes Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (editors Grayling and Pyle).

(2004) "Metaphysical Realism as a Pre-Condition of Visual Perception", Biology and Philosophy, 19 (2): 243-261.

(2002) "Hume on Induction: Genuine Problem or Theology's Trojan Horse?", Philosophy, Vol. 77, No. 299, pp. 67-86.

(2002) "Codifiability, Moral Wisdom and the Foot/Hursthouse Thesis", in The Quest for Wisdom, Editor, Christine Joynes. Cambridge: Orchard Academic.

(2001) "Whose Challenge? Which Semantics?", Synthese, 126 (1/2): 325-338.

(2000) "Could Aquinas reject semantic realism? Reply to De Anna", The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 201, pp. 515-518.

(1998) "Could Aquinas accept semantic anti-realism?", The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 193, pp. 504-513.

(1997) 'Putnam’s “Home Coming”’, Philosophy, Vol. 72, No. 282, pp. 595-601.

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