John Campbell (born 1956) is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of

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at the

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. He works primarily in

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Education and career

Campbell earned a BA at the University of Stirling, UK in 1978; an MA at the

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, Canada in 1979; and a

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from

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in 1983 with a thesis under the title ''Spatiotemporal Thinking''. Before moving to Berkeley, Campbell taught at

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for a number of years. He was a Fellow of New College. In 2000 he was awarded the Wilde Professorship of Mental Philosophy. He has additionally taught at the University of California at Los Angeles and King's College, University of Cambridge. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University, a British Academy Research Reader and between 2003-2006 was the President of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Philosophical work

Campbell specializes in the

with special emphasis on questions relating to perception. His books include ''Past, Space, and Self'' (

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, 1994) and ''Reference and Consciousness'' (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Notes

References

Reference and Consciousness - John Campbell
Oxford University Press. Accessed 2011-01-20.
John Campbell
University of California Berkeley Department of Philosophy. Accessed 2011-01-20.

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Scottish philosophers Living people 1956 births Wilde Professors of Mental Philosophy Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Oxford University of Calgary alumni Alumni of the University of Stirling University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty {{UK-philosopher-stub