Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy

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The Wilde Professorship of Mental Philosophy is a chair in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Its holder is elected to a Fellowship of Corpus Christi College.

University of Oxford university in Oxford, United Kingdom

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Corpus Christi College, Oxford college of the University of Oxford

Corpus Christi College, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1517, it is the 12th oldest college in Oxford.

The position was initially established in 1898 as a readership by an endowment from the engineer Henry Wilde. [1] It was converted to a professorship in 2000, on the recommendation of the Literae Humaniores Board and with the concurrence of the General Board.

Henry Wilde was a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, an invention for which Werner von Siemens is more usually credited and, in fact, discovered independently. At any rate, Wilde was the first to publish, his paper was communicated to the Royal Society by Michael Faraday in 1866. The self-energising dynamo replaces the permanent magnets of previous designs with electro-magnets and in so doing achieved an enormous increase in power. The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.

According to the University's statutes: "The Wilde Professor shall lecture and give instruction in Mental Philosophy, and shall from time to time lecture on the more theoretical aspects of Psychology." [2]


Wilde Professors

John Campbell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley, California.

University of California, Berkeley Public university in California, USA

The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1868 and serves as the flagship campus of the ten campuses of the University of California. Berkeley has since grown to instruct over 40,000 students in approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs covering numerous disciplines.

Martin Davies is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he taught from 2006 until 2017. He works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology and philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.

Notes

  1. ↑ "120 Years of Psychology at Oxford". psy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy" (PDF). admin.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Notes on Contributors in Naomi Eilan, Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds (Oxford University Press, 2005) p. ix
  4. ↑ Professor Martin Davies : Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy news release dated 18.09.06 online at ox.ac.uk (accessed 26 February 2008)
  5. ↑ "Appointments Humanities" (PDF). gazette.web.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2018.

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