Department Member, Philosophy
Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow
Northern Institute of Philosophy
Thesis Title: Truth and Goodness: A Minimalist Study (St Andrews, 2008)
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About
Douglas Edwards
BA (Kent), MLitt, PhD (St Andrews)
I am a Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow at the Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. My project is entitled 'The Many Kinds of Many: Pluralism about Properties', and is funded by the European Commission.
I was previously a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin from 2009-11, and a Fixed-Term Lecturer, also at UCD, from 2008-9. I am a member of Aporo, the Irish Philosophical Research Network.
My main research interests lie in the areas of Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Metaethics and Epistemology. A central aspect of my research to date has been pluralism, especially the metaphysics and semantics of pluralist theories of truth. I am also interested in investigating and developing the prospects for pluralism beyond truth in the related fields of properties, reference, belief, knowledge and value. I am also interested in theories of truth in general, in particular the debate between so-called inflationary and deflationary theories.
I did my PhD at the University of St Andrews from 2005-2008, and spent time as a visiting student at the University of Connecticut and the Australian National University.
