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Dr Stephen Burwood

Director of Studies, Lecturer 

Profile

Dr Stephen Burwood

Dr Burwood is a co-opted member on the Executive of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain and a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group. Stephen's research interests are primarily in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of human embodiment, though he has also written in the fields of environmental philosophy and the philosophy of education. His other interests include the later  Wittgenstein, especially On Certainty. He is currently writing a book on Metaphilosophy (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) and planning two more; one on the philosophy of the body, and another on philosophers and universities.

 

Teaching

Stephen teaches on the MA Philosophy of Mind and Body and MA Applied Ethics programmes as well as the following undergraduate modules:

  • Philosophical Texts
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Dissertation
  • Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Certainty
  • Bodies and Selves
  • Wittgenstein on Language and Reality
  • 20th Century Philosophy

Publications

Books

  • Philosophy of Mind, co-authored with Kathleen Lennon and Paul Gilbert (London: UCL  Press, 1998. Reprinted 2003 by Routledge).

 

Book Chapters

  • "Philosophy of Mind", in John Shand (ed.), Fundamentals of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 234-261.

 

Articles

  • 'The Creation of Equals', Journal of Philosophy of Education, 43, (2009): 485 - 506. 
  • 'Are We Our Brains?', Philosophical Investigations, 32 (2009): 113-133.
  • ' The Apparent Truth of Dualism and the Uncanny Body', Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 7 (2008): 263-278.
  • "Imitation, Indwelling, and the Embodied Self", Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 39 (2007): 1-17.
  • 'Universities without Embarrassment', Journal of Applied Philosophy, 20 (2003): 297-301.
  • 'Tacit Knowledge and Public Accounts' (with Stella González Arnal), Journal of Philosophy of Education, 37 (2003): 377-391.
  • 'Greening the Radiant City', Journal of Applied Philosophy, 19 (2001): 69-74.  
  • 'Liberation Philosophy', Teaching in Higher Education, 4 (1999):447-460.