David Owain Maurice Charles is a professor of philosophy and classics at

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. He has previously been Colin Prestige

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,Oriel College official website
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, and CUF Lecturer in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy,

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, and has been a visiting professor at the

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and at

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, New Jersey. Charles holds a doctorate ( D.Phil.) in philosophy from Oxford University. His research interests lie in issues concerning meaning, definition and practical skill and interconnections between philosophy and

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. He has published on

Greek philosophy Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC, marking the end of the Greek Dark Ages. Greek philosophy continued throughout the Hellenistic period and the period in which Greece and most Greek-inhabited lands were part of the Roman Empi ...

and on contemporary philosophy of mind and

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

Publications

* ''

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical Greece, Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatet ...

's Philosophy of Action'' (1984) * (co-editor with Kathleen Lennon) ''Reduction, Explanation and Realism'' (1992) * (co-editor with Theodore Scaltsas and

Mary Louise Gill Mary Louise Gill is the David Benedict Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Brown University. Her work primarily focuses on Plato, Aristotle, and other (primarily Greek) ancient philosophers. Education and career Gill received a bachelor's ...

) ''Unity, Identity and Explanation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics'' (1994) * ''

on Meaning and Essence'' (2000) * (co-editor with

Michael Frede Michael Frede (; 31 May 1940 – 11 August 2007) was a prominent scholar of ancient philosophy, described by '' The Telegraph'' as "one of the most important and adventurous scholars of ancient philosophy of recent times." Education and career ...

) ''Aristotle’s

Metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

Book Lambda'', (2000) * (co-editor with William Child) ''

Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian- British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is consid ...

ian themes: essays in honour of David Pears '' (2001) * (editor) ''Definition in Greek Philosophy'' (2010)

References

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