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St Hugh’s Senior Fellow Retires

After 38 years at St Hugh’s, our Friend, Senior Fellow and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Professor Adrian Moore FBA will retire at the end of Trinity term. During that time, Adrian has played a central role in shaping the study of Philosophy at the College and in contributing to its intellectual and pastoral life.

To mark Adrian’s retirement, the College held a Celebration of Philosophy on Saturday 20 June. The event included contributions from academic colleagues and former students, culminating in an ‘In Conversation’ with Adrian and Professor Nick Bunnin, Emeritus Director of the Philosophy Project, University of Oxford China Centre followed by an audience Q&A. Additionally, the College’s professional services staff were able to say a fond farewell at a special event during which Adrian was presented with a cake designed after his life-long passion, football team Manchester City.

From his seminal works The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics, Points of View, and The Infinite (now in its revised third edition), Adrian has been encouraging people to think for decades. With research interests spanning Kant, Wittgenstein, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language, ethics, and the history of philosophy, Adrian is well-known and widely-published in a range of fields

Find out more about Adrian from his interview with What is it like to be a philosopher? or by listening to any of his recent video interviews with children for the series A philosopher and a child found on on YouTube here.