Susanne Bobzien - Wikipedia Susanne Bobzien From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search German-born philosopher Susanne Bobzien FBA (born 1960) is a German-born philosopher[1] whose research interests focus on philosophy of logic and language, determinism and freedom, and ancient philosophy.[2] She currently is senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford.[3] Contents 1 Education 2 Academic career 3 Main contributions to philosophy 3.1 Determinism and freedom 3.2 Ancient logic 3.3 Vagueness 4 Major publications 4.1 Determinism and freedom 4.2 Ancient logic 4.3 Vagueness 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Education[edit] Bobzien was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1960.[1] She graduated in 1985 with an M.A. (Magister Artium) at Bonn University, and in 1993 with a doctorate in philosophy (D.Phil.) at Oxford University, where from 1987-1989 she was affiliated with Somerville College.[3] Academic career[edit] Bobzien currently holds the position of senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and is professor of philosophy at Oxford University.[3] She was appointed to a senior professorship in philosophy at Yale in 2001[4] and held this position from 2002 to 2010.[3] From 1993 to 2002 she had a tenured position at Oxford University.[3] From 1990 to 2002, she was fellow and praelector in philosophy at The Queen's College, where she was the first woman to be appointed a tutorial fellow.[5] Before that she was tutorial fellow in philosophy at Balliol College.[3] Among her awards are a British Academy Research Readership (2000–2002),[6] and a fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2008–09).[7] In 2014 she was elected a fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[8] Bobzien has published several books and numerous articles in leading academic journals and collections.[1] Main contributions to philosophy[edit] Determinism and freedom[edit] Ancient philosophy: Bobzien's major work Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy [4] is the first-full scale modern study of the Stoic theory of determinism;[9] It explores in depth the views of the Stoics on causality, fate, the modalities, divination, rational agency, the non-futility of action, moral responsibility and the formation of character.[10] In this book and in her articles "The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free-Will Problem" and "Did Epicurus discover the Free-Will Problem?" Bobzien argues that the problem of determinism and free-will, as conceived in contemporary philosophy, was not considered by Aristotle, Epicurus or the Stoics, as was previously thought, but only in the 2nd century CE and as the result of a conflation of Stoic and Aristotelian theory.[9][11] Kant: Bobzien's "Die Kategorien der Freiheit bei Kant" (The Categories of Freedom in Kant) has been described as an article "that has long been the starting point for any German reader seeking to deepen his understanding of the second chapter of [the Analytic of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason]." It differentiates the main functions of Kant's Categories of Freedom: as conditions of the possibility for actions (i) to be free, (ii) to be comprehensible as free and (iii) to be morally evaluated.[12] Ancient logic[edit] Stoic Logic: Bobzien's book Die stoische Modallogik[13] is the first monograph on Stoic modal logic.[14] It presents a detailed picture of the Stoic theory of modality.[15] In her paper "Stoic Syllogistic" Bobzien sets out the evidence for Stoic syllogistic. She argues that Stoic syllogistic should not be assimilated to standard propositional calculus, but rather treated as a distinct system which bears important similarities to relevance logic.[16] Deduction: Bobzien's paper "The Development of Modus Ponens in Antiquity" traces the earliest development of the most basic principle of deduction, i.e. modus ponens (or Law of Detachment).[17][18] Vagueness[edit] Bobzien has proposed a logic of higher-order vagueness that avoids both the higher-order vagueness paradoxes and sharp boundaries of the borderline zone (columnar higher-order vagueness),[19] has provided arguments for the existence of higher-order vagueness[20] and has introduced the notion of borderline nestings.[21] Major publications[edit] Determinism and freedom[edit] Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (Oxford 1998). ISBN 0199247676 "The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free-Will Problem" (Phronesis 43, 1998). "Did Epicurus Discover the Free-Will Problem?" (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 19, 2000). "Die Kategorien der Freiheit bei Kant" (in Kant: Analysen-Probleme-Kritik vol. 1, Würzburg 1988). Ancient logic[edit] Die stoische Modallogik (Würzburg 1986). ISBN 3884792849 "Stoic Syllogistic" (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 14, 1996). ISBN 0198236700 "The Development of Modus Ponens in Antiquity" (Phronesis 47, 2002). Vagueness[edit] "Higher-order Vagueness, Radical Unclarity, and Absolute Agnosticism" Philosophers' Imprint 10, 2010. "In Defense of True Higher-Order Vagueness" Synthese 180, 2011. "If it's Clear, then it's Clear that it's Clear, or is it? – Higher-Order Vagueness and the S4 Axiom" OUP 2012. "Higher-Order Vagueness and Borderline Nestings – a Persistent Confusion" Analytic Philosophy 54.1, 2013. See also[edit] Free will in antiquity#Epicurus Stoicism References[edit] ^ a b c Who'sWho in America 2012, 64th Edition ^ Bobzien's British Academy Page ^ a b c d e f All Souls Faculty Page ^ a b Yale Daily News 3/23/2001, "Philosophy hires rising Oxford star" Archived 3 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine ^ The Queen's College Oxford Who's Who Archived 15 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine ^ British Academy Research Readerships 2000–2002 ^ NEH Fellowships at Independent Research Institutions, announced June 2008 ^ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014. ^ a b Times Literary Supplement (15 September 2000) "Chrysippus and the seamless web" ^ Mind 109 (2000) p.855 ^ PhilPapers archive link to Bobzien's professional papers ^ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2010.11.06, of K. Ameriks, O. Höffe (eds.) Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy, Cambridge 2009. ^ Die stoische Modallogik (Würzburg 1986) ^ K. Hülser, Die Fragmente zur Dialektik der Stoiker, vol. 3. p. VI. ^ S. Knuuttila, Modalities in Medieval Philosophy, p.16. ^ Review of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XIV, 1996. ^ PhilPapers ^ The Development of Modus Ponens in Antiquity", Phronesis 47, 2002 ^ Philosophers' Imprint 2010 ^ "In Defense of True Higher-Order Vagueness", Synthese 180, 2011 ^ "Higher-Order Vagueness and Borderline Nestings – a Persistent Confusion", Analytic Philosophy 54.1, 2013 External links[edit] Homepage at All Souls College, Oxford Personal page at Academia.edu Women in Logic v t e Fellows of the British Academy elected in 2014 Fellows Roger Backhouse Richard Bentall Francesco Billari Susanne Bobzien Georgina Born Joanna Bourke Margaret Brazier Susan Brigden Peter Buckley Matthew Collins David Crouch John Curtice Sarah Curtis David Denison Ingrid De Smet Eleanor Dickey Katrin Flikschuh Gavin Flood Marina Frolova-Walker Anne Fuchs Tamar Garb Susan Gathercole Paul Gilroy Patrick Haggard Stephen Halliwell Francesca Happé Henrietta Harrison Jeremy Horder Matthew Kramer Neil Lazarus Rae Langton Judith Lieu Christian List Jane Millar Ann Phoenix Carol Propper Tony Prosser Charlotte Roberts Stephen Smith Cecilia Trifogli Dimitri Vayanos Sarah Whatmore Corresponding Svetlana Alpers Trevor Barnes Gian Biagio Conte Janet Dean Fodor Naomi Ellemers James Hankins Lynn Hunt Martti Koskenniemi Henri Leridon Jane Mansbridge Charles Manski Claudia Märtl Jürgen Osterhammel Michael Posner Yutaka Yoshida Honorary Dame Liz Forgan Lord O'Donnell Authority control BIBSYS: 99030974 BNF: cb12070044h (data) GND: 1206956216 ISNI: 0000 0000 8127 330X LCCN: n87931103 NLP: A12277307 NTA: 073043451 PLWABN: 9810598853705606 SUDOC: 028976851 VIAF: 49248172 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n87931103 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susanne_Bobzien&oldid=990518000" Categories: 20th-century British philosophers 20th-century German philosophers 21st-century philosophers Yale University faculty German scholars of ancient Greek philosophy Philosophers of language German women philosophers Living people 1960 births Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Articles with short description Articles with short description added by PearBOT 5 Short description is different from Wikidata EngvarB from September 2014 Use dmy dates from September 2014 Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Deutsch Español Edit links This page was last edited on 24 November 2020, at 22:56 (UTC). 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