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Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford (born 2 January 1968) is an English philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Reading.[1]
Maximilian de Gaynesford | |
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.jpeg) Gaynesford in 2015 | |
| Born | 2 January 1968 London, England |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Phenomenology |
Main interests | Philosophy of language Philosophy of mind Aesthetics Phenomenology |
Education and career
editDe Gaynesford was educated at Ampleforth College and Balliol College, Oxford (1986–1989; First in Modern History), after which he spent several years studying theology before studying philosophy in 1993. Shortly before receiving his doctorate, he was elected fellow and tutor in philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford (1997). He was subsequently Humboldt Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin (2003) and a tenured professor at The College of William and Mary in Virginia (2002–2006)[2] before becoming professor of philosophy (2008) and head of department (2016) at the University of Reading.[3]
He is the author of four books: The Rift in the Lute: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy (Oxford, 2017), I: The Meaning of the First Person Term (Oxford, 2006), Hilary Putnam (Routledge, 2006; the book's goal was "to make Putnam’s contributions to modern philosophy accessible to those without expertise in such matters"[4]), and John McDowell (Polity, 2004).[5] In 2011, he edited a collection of articles on the Philosophy of Action, Agents And Their Actions (Blackwell), including recent work by John McDowell and Joseph Raz. He spoke at the Harvard Conference in celebration of Hilary Putnam in 2011.[citation needed] He gives papers on attuning poetry and philosophy for general audiences; in 2015, he gave a public talk at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on 'Why Philosophy and Poetry Matter.'[6] In 2017, he took part in a short filmed conversation about Philosophy and Film with Lenny Abrahamson and Francine Stock. Their subsequent extended public discussion was recorded as a podcast.[7] He is also interested in moral psychology and the interface with the philosophy of law, where he unearths a particular type of defence that he calls 'justifexcuses.'[8]
Selected bibliography
editBooks
edit- The Rift in the Lute: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy[9]
- I: The Meaning of the First Person Term[10]
- Hilary Putnam[4]
- John McDowell[11]
Chapters in books
edit- The Sonnets and Attunement in The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy (Routledge, 2018) eds Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne.[12]
- Attuning philosophy and literary criticism: a response to In the Heart of the Country in Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee (Oxford, 2017) eds P. Hayes and J. Wilm.[13]
- Uptake In Action in Interpreting J.L. Austin: Critical Essays (Cambridge, 2017) ed. Savas Tsohatzidis.[14]
References
edit- ^ "Max de Gaynesford - Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading". www.reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Leiter Report".
- ^ "Professor Max De Gaynesford - Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading". www.reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
- ^ a b Danisch, Robert C. (2007). "Review: Putnam's Place in Philosophy". Metascience. 16: 107–110. doi:10.1007/s11016-006-9066-5. S2CID 170973509.
- ^ "PhilPeople".
- ^ "Royal Institute of Philosophy". YouTube. 18 March 2015. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Philosophers Magazine". YouTube. 25 May 2017. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
- ^ "University of Leeds Philosophy Seminar". 8 November 2018.
- ^ Eldridge, Richard (2019). "PhilPapers". British Journal of Aesthetics. pp. 236–239. doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayy013.
- ^ PhilPapers. Clarendon Press. 2006.
- ^ Bagattini, Alexander; Willaschek, Marcus (2006). "John McDowell by Maximilian de Gaynesford and John McDowell by Tim Thornton". Philosophical Books. 47 (3): 281–84. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.2006.00410.x.
- ^ "Routledge".
- ^ Amazon. ASIN 0198805284.
- ^ De Gaynesford, Maximilian (2017). "Uptake in Action". Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press. pp. 79–95. doi:10.1017/9781316421840.005. ISBN 9781107125902.
External links
edit- Academia.
- OCLC.
- British Journal of Aesthetics review of The Rift In The Lute: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy (by Richard Eldridge; Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 236–239).
- Commentary on recent books including The Rift In The Lute: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy (by Lowell Gallagher; "Recent Studies in the English Renaissance" SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, vol. 58 no. 1, 2018, pp. 219-277).
- TLS review of I: The Meaning of the First Person Term (by Stephen Williams; 20 April 2007).
- I: The Meaning of the First Person Term Chapter 1.
- The Seriousness of Poetry.
- Illocutionary Acts, Subordination and Silencing.