Professor David Cockburn MA (St Andrews), BPhil, DPhil (Oxford)

Contact Details

School of Cultural Studies
Tel: 01570 424983
E-mail: d.cockburn@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Professor of Philosophy

Role in the University

David Cockburn, who has also taught at University of Wales Swansea, the Open University, Abo Akademi in Finland, and the University of East Anglia, is Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

Background

David held a British Academy Research Readership 1994-96. His publications include: Hume (Open University Press, 1983); Other Human Beings (Macmillan, 1990); Human Beings (ed) (Cambridge University Press, 1991) (the proceedings of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Human Beings held at Lampeter in 1990); Other Times: philosophical perspectives on past, present and future (Cambridge University Press, 1997); An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave, 2001). His research areas include Hume, Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind, Time, Causation and Ethics. Offers specialist supervision in Philosophy of Mind; Epistemology; Wittgenstein; Time; Metaphysics.

He is Associate Editor of Philosophical Investigations, a Committee Member of the British Wittgenstein Society and Secretary of the Welsh Philosophical Society. He organized the British Wittgenstein Society conference on ‘Wittgenstein and the Swansea School’ held at the University’s conference centre, Gregynog Hall, in 2011.

Publications

Hume, Open University Units sections 1‑8 (Open University Press, 1983)

'Empiricism and the Theory of Meaning', Philosophical Investigations, vol 8 no 1, 1985

'The Mind, the Brain, and the Face', Philosophy, vol 60 no 234, 1985

'The Problem of the Past', The Philosophical Quarterly, vol 37 no 146, 1987

Critical Notice of Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Philosophical Investigations, vol 10 no 1, 1987

'The Idea of a Person as He is in Himself', Philosophical Investigations, vol 11 no 1, 1988

'Intersubjectivity and Reason: Response to Albrecht Wellmer', Lars Hertzberg and Juhani Pietarinen eds Perspectives on Human Conduct (E.J. Brill, 1988)

'People and the Paranormal', Arthur Berger ed Perspectives on Death and Dying (Charles Press, 1989)

'Two Views of the Soul', Cogito, vol 3, 1989

'Commitment to Persons', D.Z. Phillips and Peter Winch eds, Wittgenstein, Attention to Particulars (Macmillan, 1989)

'Freedom and Science', Cogito, vol 4 no 2, 1990

Other Human Beings (Macmillan, 1990)

'The Evidence for Reincarnation', Religious Studies, vol 27, 1991

'Capital Punishment and Realism', Philosophy, vol 66 no 256

'A Dialogue on Scientific Rationality' (with H. Sankey), Cogito, vol 5 no 3, 1991

Human Beings (ed) (Cambridge University Press, 1991)

'The Supernatural', Religious Studies, vol 28, 1992

Death and the Value of Life (ed), TRIVIUM vol 27, 1992

Critical Notice of Susan Wolf, Freedom Within Reason and Richard Double, The Non‑Reality of Free Will, Philosophical Quarterly vol 42 no 168 1992

'A Dialogue on Scientific Realism', with H. Sankey, Cogito, vol 6 no 3, 1992

'Counterfactuals and the Self', Philosophical Investigations, vol 17 no 2, 1994

'Human Beings and Giant Squids', Philosophy, vol 69 no 268, 1994

'Depression and Science', with H. Sankey, Cogito vol 9 no 1, 1995

'Responsibility and Necessity', Philosophy, vol 70 no 273, 1995

'Simone Weil on Death', Mortality vol 2 no 1, 1997

Other Times: Philosophical perspectives on past, present and future (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

'Obligation to Remember', Newsletter of the Finnish Institute in London, 1997

'Religious Pluralism and Kantian Metaphysics', Theology March/April 1997

'Tense and Emotion', in Robin Le Poidevin (ed.), Questions of Time and Tense (Oxford University Press, 1998)

‘Moral Education and the Transmission of a Culture’, Moral Character Education Facing the New Century (1998)

(English and Chinese) 'Self, World and God in Spinoza and Weil', Studies in World Christianity, 1999

'Human beings and an "absolute conception"', in Neil Roughly (ed), Human Beings (Routledge, 2000)

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave, 2001)

'Memories, Traces and the Significance of the Past', in Christoph Hoerl (ed), Time and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2001)

Critical Notice of Rush Rhees, Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse, Philosophical Investigations, 2002

‘Meaning, Rules and Conversation’, Language Sciences 2003

‘Language, Belief and Human Beings’, Anthony O’Hear (ed) Minds and Persons, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 53 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

‘Spinoza’, John Daniel and W.L. Gealy (eds), Efrydiau Athronyddol 2003 (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru)

‘People and their bodies’, Trivium 37, 2007

‘Wittgenstein: the end of metaphysics?’, in Dewi Z. Phillips and Mario von der Ruhr (eds), Religion and the End of Metaphysics, (Mohr Siebeck, 2008)

‘Emotion, expression and conversation’, in Ylva Gustafson, Camilla Kronqvist, Michael McEachrane (eds), Emotions and Understanding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

‘Rush Rhees: The Reality of Discourse’, John Edelman (ed) Sense and Reality (Ontos Verlag, 2009)

‘Time in Consciousness; Consciousness in Time’, Pierfrancesco Basile, Julian Keverstein, Pauline Phemister (eds), The Metaphysics of Consciousnes (Cambridge University Press, 2010)