Bill Brewer is a

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philosopher and

Susan Stebbing Lizzie Susan Stebbing (2 December 1885 – 11 September 1943) was a British philosopher. She belonged to the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy, and was a founder in 1933 of the journal ''Analysis.'' Stebbing was the first woman to hold a p ...

Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He was previously the Head of the Department of Philosophy. He was a scholar at Oriel College, Oxford, reading Maths and Philosophy and graduating B. Phil. and D. Phil in Philosophy, supervised by

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, and John Campbell. He was then a research fellow at

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, a tutorial fellow and university lecturer at

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, and next a professor in the philosophy department at the

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. He has also been a visiting lecturer at Brown University, Hamburg, and the

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. In September 2012, Brewer was elected as the Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College, London.

Books

* ''Perception and Reason'', Oxford University Press, 1999 * ''Perception and Its Objects'', Oxford University Press, 2011

References

External links

Bill Brewer at KCL
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