David Charles (philosopher)

For other people of the same name, see David Charles (disambiguation).

Professor David Owain Maurice Charles is Colin Prestige Fellow,^[1] Professor of Philosophy, and Director of Graduate Studies at Oriel College, Oxford. Prof. Charles is a CUF Lecturer in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles and at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

He holds a master's degree (B.Phil.) and a doctorate (D.Phil.) in philosophy from Oxford University. His research interests lie in issues concerning meaning, definition and practical skill and interconnections between philosophy and psychiatry. He has published on Greek philosophy and on contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

Publications

• Aristotle's Philosophy of Action (1984)
• (co-editor with Kathleen Lennon) Reduction, Explanation and Realism (1992)
• (co-editor Theodore Scaltsas and Mary Louise Gill) Unity, Identity and Explanation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics (1994)
• Aristotle on Meaning and Essence (2000)
• (co-editor with Michael Frede) Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book Lambda, (2000)
• (co-editor with William Child) Wittgensteinian themes : essays in honour of David Pears (2001)
• Definition in Greek Philosophy (2010)

References

1. ^ Oriel College official Web site

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