Helen Beebee
After receiving my PhD in Philosophy from King’s College London, I have held lectureships at Edinburgh, St Andrews, UCL, and Manchester, and a professorship at Birmingham, before becoming the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at Manchester.
From September 2016 to August 2019, I'm the Principal investigator on the AHRC-funded project, 'The age of metaphysical revolution: David Lewis and his place in the history of analytic philosophy', with my new colleagues at Manchester Fraser MacBride, Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Anthony Fisher.
I've been involved in various other research projects, including a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2008-10) and a large AHRC project ('Metaphysics of Science', 2006-9), on which I was a co-investigator along with Alexander Bird (Bristol, PI) and Stephen Mumford (Nottingham). More recently, I was co-applicant on a successful application to the Royal Society/British Academy for a Newton International Fellowship with Anthony Fisher, who spent two years at Manchester working on Samuel Alexander.
I am one of the co-editors of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and an associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association; I'm also on the editorial boards of Hume Studies and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
I'm currently President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and President Elect of the Aristotelian Society, and co-chair (with Jenny Saul) of the BPA/Society for Women in Philosophy (UK) Committee for Women in Philosophy. I was Director of the British Philosophical Association from 2007 to 2011 and a member of the AHRC's Advisory Board from 2009 to 2013.
Supervisors: David Papineau
Address: Department of Philosophy
School of Social Sciences
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
From September 2016 to August 2019, I'm the Principal investigator on the AHRC-funded project, 'The age of metaphysical revolution: David Lewis and his place in the history of analytic philosophy', with my new colleagues at Manchester Fraser MacBride, Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Anthony Fisher.
I've been involved in various other research projects, including a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2008-10) and a large AHRC project ('Metaphysics of Science', 2006-9), on which I was a co-investigator along with Alexander Bird (Bristol, PI) and Stephen Mumford (Nottingham). More recently, I was co-applicant on a successful application to the Royal Society/British Academy for a Newton International Fellowship with Anthony Fisher, who spent two years at Manchester working on Samuel Alexander.
I am one of the co-editors of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and an associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association; I'm also on the editorial boards of Hume Studies and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
I'm currently President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and President Elect of the Aristotelian Society, and co-chair (with Jenny Saul) of the BPA/Society for Women in Philosophy (UK) Committee for Women in Philosophy. I was Director of the British Philosophical Association from 2007 to 2011 and a member of the AHRC's Advisory Board from 2009 to 2013.
Supervisors: David Papineau
Address: Department of Philosophy
School of Social Sciences
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
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Papers by Helen Beebee
Personal identity (Parfit, Schechtman)
Free will (van Inwagen, Dennett)
Realism & anti-realism (Davidson, Nagel)
Realism & nominalism (Devitt, Armstrong)
Possible worlds (Lewis, Kripke)
Persistence (Lewis, Haslanger)