Christopher Peacocke
| Christopher Peacocke | |
|---|---|
| Born | Christopher Arthur Bruce Peacocke 22 May 1950 United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Epistemology, Philosophy of mind |
| Institutions |
University of California, Berkeley King's College, London University of Oxford New York University Columbia University University College London New College of the Humanities |
| Alma mater |
Magdalen College School Exeter College, Oxford Harvard University All Souls College, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Dummett |
Christopher Arthur Bruce Peacocke (born 22 May 1950) is a British philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind and epistemology. His recent publications, in the field of epistemology, have defended a version of rationalism.
Son of the British theologian and biochemist Arthur Peacocke, he was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics as an undergraduate, winning both the Webb Medley Prize in Economics and the Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy in 1971, and graduated with a first class degree. Later that year he was awarded a Kennedy Memorial Trust scholarship to study at Harvard University. He then continued at Oxford gaining a BPhil (1974) and DPhil (1979) in Philosophy, the latter under the supervision of Michael Dummett. He was Visiting Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, 1975-6, and in 1975 elected to a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He was the Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College London from 1985 to 1989 and Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University from 1989 to 2000, at which time he moved to New York University (NYU). He joined the Philosophy Department at Columbia University in 2004, where he is now Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy. In 2008 he was named to the Richard Wollheim chair in philosophy at University College, London, where he will teach in the third (summer) term each year. He lives with his wife and two children. He is also Visiting Professor of Philosophy at New College of the Humanities.
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