Alan Millar

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(born 14 December 1947) is the former Head of

Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

at the

University of Stirling The University of Stirling (, gd, Oilthigh Shruighlea (abbreviated as Stir or Shruiglea, in post-nominals) is a public university in Stirling, Scotland, founded by royal charter in 1967. It is located in the Central Belt of Scotland, built w ...

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

. He earned his PhD at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

and joined the department at Stirling University in 1971. His primary research interests are

philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addre ...

and the

theory of knowledge Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Episte ...

. He is a member of the editorial board of ''

The Philosophical Quarterly ''The Philosophical Quarterly'' is a quarterly academic journal of philosophy established in 1950 and published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Scots Philosophical Club and the University of St Andrews. Since 2014 its publisher is Oxford Acade ...

''.

Works

* ''Reasons and experience'' (1991) * ''Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002). Edited with José Luis Bermúdez. * ''Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004hb, 2008pb). * ''Epistemic Value (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)'' Edited with Adrian Haddock and Duncan Pritchard. * ''Social Epistemology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)''Edited with Adrian Haddock and Duncan Pritchard. * ''The Nature and Value of Knowledge'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Co-authored with Adrian Haddock and Duncan Pritchard.

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