Personal Info

E-mail: brian.ball(at)philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 274838

Web Links: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~chri1655/

Academic Background:

I got my BA at McGill University in 2000, with Honours in Philosophy and a Minor Concentration in Linguistics. I came to Oxford to study Philosophy in 2001, where I was awarded the BPhil in 2003, and the DPhil in 2008. The lectureship I hold at St Anne’s is my first full-time academic post in Philosophy.

Teaching Interests:

Undergraduate:
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Logic, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Philosophy (early modern, and especially analytic).

Graduate:
Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind.

Research Interests:

My research to date has focussed on the intersection between metaphysics and the philosophy of language, and in particular on truth, meaning and existence. I also have research interests in the philosophy of mind and epistemology.