Peter Simons#
Membership Number: | 2356 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
Elected: | 2006 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://sites.google.com/site/petermsimons |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016- Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
- 2009-2016 Chair of Moral Philosophy (1837), Trinity College Dublin
- 1995-2009 Professor of Philosophy, University of Leeds
- 1980-1995 Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Salzburg
- 1977-1980 Lecturer in Philosophy, Bolton Institute of Technology
- 1975-1977 Assistant Librarian, University of Manchester
Fields of Scholarship
- Metaphysics and Ontology (Pure and Applied)
- Philosophy of Language and Logic
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- History of Analytic Philosophy
- History of Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe
Honours and Awards
- Honorary professor at the University of Salzburg (1996)
- Fellow of the British Academy (2004)
- Member of Academia Europaea (2006)
- Ph.D. (honoris causa), University of Bolton (2012)
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2013)
- Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2018)