Huw Price

Huw Price (/hj prs/; born 17 May 1953) is an Australian philosopher, formerly the Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Huw Price
Born (1953-05-17) 17 May 1953
Oxford, England
NationalityAustralian
Alma materAustralian National University
University of Oxford
Darwin College, Cambridge
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Neo-pragmatism
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge
ThesisThe Problem of the Single Case (1981)
Doctoral advisorHugh Mellor
Main interests
Philosophy of science
Notable ideas
Global expressivism (anti-representationalism), subject naturalism (philosophy needs to begin with what science tells us about ourselves)
Websiteprce.hu

He was previously Challis Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney, and before that Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. He is also one of three founders and the Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and the Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

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