Stephen Mulhall (; born 1962) is a British philosopher and Fellow of New College, Oxford. His main research areas are

Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is con ...

and

post-Kantian philosophy German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

Education and career

Stephen Mulhall received a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at

Balliol College Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...

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in 1983. He then pursued an MA in Philosophy from

The University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

in 1984, during which time he spent several weeks studying under

Sir Isaiah Berlin Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks ...

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. Between 1984 and 1988, he attended

and

All Souls College All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of t ...

, Oxford for his

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in Philosophy. From 1986 to 1991 he was a Prize Fellow at

and in 1991 he became a Reader of Philosophy at the

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. From 1998 to the present he has been a fellow at New College, Oxford. He has published extensively on

Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrians, Austrian-British people, British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy o ...

Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centur ...

, and the American philosopher

Stanley Cavell Stanley Louis Cavell (; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, an ...

Books

Source: *1990 ''On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects'' (Routledge) *1992 ''Liberals and Communitarians ''(Blackwell) - with Adam Swift *1994 ''Stanley Cavell: Philosophy’s Recounting of the Ordinary ''(OUP) *1994 ''Faith and Reason'' (Duckworth) *1996 ''Heidegger and Being and Time'' (Routledge) *1996 ''Liberals and Communitarians: A Revised Edition ''(Blackwell) - with Adam Swift *1996 ''The Cavell Reader'' (Blackwell) - editor *2001 ''Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard'' (OUP) *2002 ''On Film'', London/New York: Routledge, 2002. *2005 ''Philosophical Myths of the Fall'' (Princeton) *2005 ''Heidegger and Being and Time'' (second edition) *2006 ''Martin Heidegger'' International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought (Ashgate) - editor *2006 ''Wittgenstein's Private Language'' (OUP) *2007 ''The Conversation of Humanity ''(University of Virginia Press) *2008 ''On Film'' (second edition; Routledge) *2008 ''The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality'' (Princeton) *2013 ''The Self and Its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts'' (Oxford University Press) *2014 ''On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects'' (second edition; Routledge) *2015 ''The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy'' (Oxford University Press) *2021 ''The Ascetic Ideal: Genealogies of Life-Denial in Religion, Morality, Art, Science, and Philosophy'' (Oxford University Press)

References

British philosophers Film theory Film theorists Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford 1962 births Living people {{UK-philosopher-stub