Professor Adrian W Moore FBA

Interests

• Kant
• Wittgenstein
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophy of Logic and Language
• Ethics
• Philosophy of Religion

Career

• 1982 – 1985 University College, Oxford: Lecturer in Philosophy
• 1985 – 1988 King’s College, Cambridge: Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy
• 1988 – present St Hugh’s College, Oxford: Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer in Philosophy
• 2004 – present St Hugh’s College, Oxford: University Professor of Philosophy
• 2014 – 24 Delegate of Oxford University Press
• 2015 – 25 Joint Editor, with Lucy O’Brien, of MIND
• 2017 – 20 Vice-Principal of St Hugh’s College
• 2024 – present Fellow of The British Academy

Books

• 1990: The Infinite (London: Routledge)
  A revised third edition, with two new chapters and a new appendix, was published in 2019.
• 1997: Points of View (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• 2003: Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy (London: Routledge)
• 2012: The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
• 2019: Language, World, and Limits: Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• 2022: Gödel’s Theorem: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• 2023: The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Edited anthologies

• 1993 (ed) Meaning and Reference (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• 1993 (ed) Infinity (Aldershot: Dartmouth)
• 2006 (ed) Bernard Williams, Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
• 2012 (co-ed), Contemporary Kantian Metaphysics: New Essays on Space and Time (Basingstoke: Macmillan)

Adrian is a life-long ardent Manchester City supporter. Learn more about Adrian on his personal website.