Bill Brewer is a British philosopher and

Susan Stebbing Lizzie Susan Stebbing (2 December 1885 – 11 September 1943) was a British philosopher. She belonged to the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy, and was a founder in 1933 of the journal ''Analysis.'' Stebbing was the first woman to hold a p ...

Professor of Philosophy at

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. He is also Head of the Department of Philosophy. He was a scholar at

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, reading Maths and Philosophy and graduating B. Phil. and D. Phil in Philosophy, supervised by

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, and John Campbell. He was then a Research Fellow at

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, a Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer at

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, and next a Professor in the Philosophy Department at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

. He has also been a visiting Lecturer at

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, Hamburg, and the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. In September 2012 Brewer was elected as the Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College, London.

Books

* ''Perception and Reason'', Oxford University Press, 1999 * ''Perception and Its Objects'', Oxford University Press, 2011

References

External links

Bill Brewer at KCL
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