List of philosophers associated with Balliol College, Oxford: Difference between revisions

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Date Field of work Comments Refs Sir William Hamilton 1807 metaphysics Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Edinburgh
Philosophy of the Unconditioned 1829 Thomas Hill Green 1854 British idealism Whyte’s Professor of Moral Philosophy
Husband of Charlotte Byron Symonds who promoted women’s education
His teaching is considered the most potent philosophical influence in England during the last quarter of the 19th century, cited by many social liberal politicians, often Balliol alumni, such as Herbert Samuel and H. H. Asquith
Prolegomena to Ethics 1884 posthumously ^[1]^: 13 Edward Caird 1860 British idealism FBA, FRSE
Chair of Moral Philosophy, Glasgow
Master of Balliol
brother of theologian John Caird
The Evolution of Religion 1893 ^[1]^: 30 Alfred Barratt 1862 panpsychism Fellow, Brasenose College
Physical Ethics 1869 ^[1]^: 37 William Wallace 1864 German philosophy Fellow of Merton College
White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy
The Logic and Prolegomena of Hegel 1873
Kant 1882 ^[1]^: 45 Richard Lewis Nettleship 1865 British idealism Fellow
The Theory of Education in Plato’s Republic 1935
(43 years posthumous) ^[1]^: 48 Bernard Bosanquet 1866 British idealism FBA
Husband of social theorist and reformer Helen Bosanquet
The Philosophical Theory of the State 1899 ^[1]^: 49 John Cook Wilson 1867 logic FBA, Fellow of New College
Wykeham Professor of Logic
Disputed the barbershop paradox with Lewis Carroll ^[1]^: 55 David George Ritchie 1873 British idealism Fellow
Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, St Andrews
Natural Rights 1895 ^[1]^: 82 Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead 1874 arts and crafts Founded Byrdcliffe Colony New York Samuel Alexander 1878 emergentist OM, FBA
Professor of Philosophy, Manchester
Moral Order and Progress 1889 ^[2]^: 4 F. C. S. Schiller 1882 pragmatism FBA, Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Visiting Professor USC ^[2]^: 12 John Alexander Smith 1883 British idealism FBA
Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy
Instigator of the new PPE degree ^[2]^: 14 Robert Ranulph Marett 1885 anthropology Rector of Exeter College Harold Joachim 1886 coherence theory of truth FBA
Wykeham Professor of Logic
The Nature of Truth 1906 ^[2]^: 19 Sir Ernest Barker 1893 political science FBA, Principal KCL
Professor, Political Science, Cambridge Sir W. D. Ross 1896 moral realism FBA
White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy
The Right and the Good ^[2]^: 50 Sir Leon Simon 1900 Zionism Balfour Declaration
President, Hebrew University Olaf Stapledon 1905 transhumanism expressed philosophy through Science Fiction
Last and First Men ^[2]^: 106 Herbert James Paton 1908 German philosophy FBA
White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy
brains behind the Curzon Line 1919 splitting Poland ^[2]^: 130 John Macmurray 1913 personalism Fellow
Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at UCL
Professor of Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh ^[2]^: 168 Austin Marsden Farrer 1923 theology FBA, Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford
Warden, Keble College
“one of the greatest figures of 20th-century Anglicanism” ^[2]^: 244 John Niemeyer Findlay 1924 rational mysticism Rhodes Scholar
Professor of Philosophy, KCL/Yale/Boston ^[2]^: 253 J. L. Austin 1929 philosophy of language FBA, White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy
leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy
How to Do Things with Words 1955 ^[2]^: 296 Norman O. Brown 1932 Freudo-Marxism professor of Classics at Wesleyan Sir Stuart Hampshire 1933 philosophy of mind FBA, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, UCL
Head of Philosophy, Princeton
Warden, Wadham College
Thought and Action ^[3]^: 222 Peter Geach 1934 Philosophical logic Hon. Fellow, Professor of Logic, Leeds
married to philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe ^[3]^: 188 R. M. Hare 1937 moral philosophy FBA,White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy
The Language of Morals 1952 ^[3]^: 225 David Pears 1939 Ludwig Wittgenstein Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
“one-man crusader for critical rationalism”
Words and Things 1959 ^[3]^: 423 Richard Wollheim 1941 philosophy of art Grote Professor of Mind and Logic, UCL
Art And Its Objects ^[3]^: 593 Ernest Gellner 1943 European philosophy FBA, Fellow, Christ Church
“the only Wittgensteinian to get Wittgenstein right” ^[3]^: 189 Sir Bernard Williams 1947 Moral philosophy FBA, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge
White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford
“a good claim to be the leading British philosopher of his day” (Martin Hollis)
Utilitarianism: For and Against CUP 1973 ^[3]^: 584 John Lucas 1947 philosophy of mathematics FBA, Fellow at Merton College
Minds, Machines and Gödel 1959 ^[3]^: 336 Alan Montefiore 1948 European philosophy Fellow
A Modern Introduction to Moral PhilosophyRoutledge 1958 ^[3]^: 381 Peter Sedgwick 1952 international socialism PsychoPolitics 1982

Charles Taylor 1952 political philosophy FRSC, Rhodes Scholar, Professor at McGill
The first president of the Oxford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
A Secular Age HUP 2007 ^[3]^: 533 Steven Lukes 1958 sociology FBA, professor of politics and sociology at NYU
Power: A Radical View 3rd Ed. 2021 Alan Ryan 1959 political philosophy FBA, Professor of Politics, Oxford
The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill MacMillan 1970 ^[3]^: 471 Hans Sluga 1960 German philosophy Professor, Berkeley
The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein CUP 1996 ^[3]^: 501

Derek Parfit 1961 moral philosophy Fellow of All Souls
widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, whose first book, Reasons and Persons (OUP 1984) has been described as the most significant work of moral philosophy since the 1800s ^[3]^: 418 Sir Neil MacCormick 1963 jurisprudence FRS, FRSE, Fellow
Regius Chair of Public Law, Edinburgh
MEP
Law, State and Practical Reason, OUP 2011 ^[3]^: 342 Roy Bhaskar 1963 critical realism Master
A Realist Theory of Science, Verso 1975 ^[3]^: 41 Robert D. Putnam 1963 social capital Fulbright Fellow
two-level game theoryBowling Alone

Sir Anthony Kenny 1964 philosophy of mind Master
A New History of Western Philosophy OUP 2010 ^[3]^: 294 Kit Fine 1964 philosophical logic Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics, New York
Vagueness: A Global Approach OUP 2020 ^[3]^: 166 Martin Hollis 1965 rationality Tutor
Professor, University of East Anglia
editor Ratio
Puzzler ^[3]^: 250

Arthur Prior 1967 temporal logic Fellow
Time and Modality, OUP 1957 ^[3]^: 441 William Newton-Smith 1967 philosophy of science Fellow
The Rationality of Science Routledge 1981 ^[3]^: 399 David Miller 1967 social justice Professor of Political Theory, Oxford Alex Callinicos 1968 Trotskyism The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx 2012 Michael E. Rosen 1970 Continental philosophy Professor of Government at Harvard

Joseph Raz 1972 jurisprudence FBA, Fellow
The Concept of a Legal System: An Introduction to the Theory of a Legal System, 2nd Ed OUP 1980 ^[3]^: 451 Hilary Lawson 1973 anti-realism TV producer
Founded the Institute of Art and Ideas ^[3]^: 314

Timothy Williamson 1974 philosophical logic Wykeham Professor of Logic, Fellow of New College
Knowledge and Its Limits OUP 2000 ^[3]^: 587

Michael Sandel 1975 political philosophy Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Government, Harvard
Justice: the right things to do, popular Harvard course ^[3]^: 477 Sir Geoff Mulgan 1979 collective intelligence Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at UCL

Adrian William Moore 1979 metaphysics FBA, Professor of Philosophy, Oxford
The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things, CUP 2012 ^[3]^: 382 Stephen Macedo 1980 liberalism Professor of Politics at Princeton Ian Rumfitt 1983 philosophy of language FBA, Fellow, All Souls
The Boundary Stones of Thought, Clarendon 2015 ^[3]^: 470

Paul W. Franks 1983 Jewish philosophy Professor of Philosophy, Yale
All or Nothing: Skepticism, Transcendental Arguments and Systematicity in German Idealism, HUP 2005 ^[3]^: 176 Cheryl Misak 1984 pragmatism Rhodes Scholar, FRSC
Professor of Philosophy, Toronto
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, OUP 2020 ^[3]^: 378 Stephen Mulhall 1984 German philosophy Fellow, New College
The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy, OUP 2015 ^[3]^: 414

Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford 1986 philosophy of language Professor of Philosophy, Reading
I: The Meaning of the First Person Term
Clarendon 2006 ^[3]^: 129 Michael Otsuka 1986 political philosophy Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers
Libertarianism Without Inequality
OUP 2003 ^[3]^: 414 Herman Cappelen 1987 philosophy of language Professor of Philosophy, Hong Kong
Bad Language (with Josh Dever)
OUP 2019 ^[3]^: 81 John Tasioulas 1989 moral philosophy Rhodes Scholar
Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy ^[3]^: 531 Katherine Hawley 1989 metaphysics How Things Persist 2002
How To Be Trustworthy 2020 ^[3]^: 232 Graeme Garrard 1990 political philosophy Professor of Politics at Cardiff
The Return of the State: And Why it is Essential for our Health, Wealth and Happiness 2022 Raj_Patel 1991 social justice Stuffed and Starved The Value of Nothing