Thomas R. Baldwin (born 1947) is a British

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and has been a professor of philosophy at the

University of York The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thir ...

since 1995. He has written generally on 20th century

analytic Analytic or analytical may refer to: Chemistry * Analytical chemistry, the analysis of material samples to learn their chemical composition and structure * Analytical technique, a method that is used to determine the concentration of a chemical ...

and

Continental philosophy Continental philosophy is a group of philosophies prominent in 20th-century continental Europe that derive from a broadly Kantianism, Kantian tradition.Continental philosophers usually identify such conditions with the transcendental subject or ...

, as well as

bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, me ...

, the

philosophy of language Philosophy of language refers to the philosophical study of the nature of language. It investigates the relationship between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of Meaning (philosophy), me ...

and of mind, particularly with regard to

G. E. Moore George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began de-emphasizing ...

Maurice Merleau-Ponty Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty. ( ; ; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interes ...

, and

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic ...

Biography

Baldwin studied at

Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

, gaining an MA and a PhD before lecturing at

Makerere University Makerere University (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922, and the oldest currently active university in East Africa. It became an independent national university in ...

and Cambridge. He was editor of ''

Mind The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills. It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances ...

'' from 2005 to 2015 and has served as the president of the

Aristotelian Society The Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, more generally known as the Aristotelian Society, is a philosophical society in London. History Aristotelian Society was founded at a meeting on 19 April 1880, at 17 Bloomsbury Squar ...

(2006–07) and as Deputy Chair of the

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom. It is a statutory body that regulates and inspects all clinics in the Unite ...

. He was Chair of the

Nuffield Council on Bioethics The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is a UK-based independent charitable body, which examines and reports on bioethical issues raised by new advances in biological and medical research. Established in 1991, the Council is funded by the Nuffield F ...

Working Party on ''Novel Neurotechnologies'' (2013).

Selected publications

* ''Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English since 1945.'' Oxford University Press, 2001. * ''Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings'' (edited by Thomas Baldwin). Routledge, 2004. * "Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century" in ''The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language'' (edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith). Oxford University Press: 2008. * "Wittgenstein and Moore" in ''The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein'' (edited by Oskari Kuusela and Marie McGinn). Oxford University Press: 2011. * ''G.E. Moore: Selected Writings'' (edited by Thomas Baldwin). Routledge, 2013. *
G.E. Moore and the Cambridge School of Analysis
in ''The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy'' (edited by Michael Beaney)''.'' Oxford University Press, 2013. * "Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Critique of Natural Science" in ''Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 72'' (edited by Havi Carel and Darian Meacham). Cambridge University Press: 2013. * ''G. E. Moore: Early Philosophical Writings'' (edited by Thomas Baldwin and Consuelo Preti). Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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