John Campbell (born November 2, 1956) is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of

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at the

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. He works primarily in

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Education and career

Campbell earned a BA at the University of Stirling, UK in 1978; an MA at the

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, Canada in 1979; and a

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from

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in 1983 with a thesis under the title ''Spatiotemporal Thinking''. Before moving to Berkeley, Campbell taught at

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for a number of years. He was a Fellow of New College. In 2000 he was awarded the Wilde Professorship of Mental Philosophy. He has additionally taught at the University of California at Los Angeles and King's College, University of Cambridge. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University, a British Academy Research Reader and between 2003 and 2006 was the President of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. In 2017, he received the

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, and in 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the

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Philosophical work

Campbell specializes in the

with special emphasis on questions relating to perception. His books include ''Past, Space, and Self'' (

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, 1994) and ''Reference and Consciousness'' (Oxford University Press, 2002).

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References

Reference and Consciousness - John Campbell
Oxford University Press. Accessed 2011-01-20.
John Campbell
University of California Berkeley Department of Philosophy. Accessed 2011-01-20.

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