Jimmy Altham

James Edward John Altham, commonly known as Jimmy Altham, is a distinguished British philosopher born in 1944. He is a Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Altham pursued his academic career at Cambridge, earning his BA degree in Philosophy and subsequently a Ph.D. in the same field in 1969. His doctoral dissertation was titled 'Assertion, Command and Obligation. Philosophical Foundations of the Logic of Imperatives and Deontic Logic'. He began his tenure as a lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge in 1972, later serving as the Sidgwick lecturer in Philosophy. He retired from his professorial duties in 1999 and currently holds the esteemed positions of emeritus professor and Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. Throughout his career, Altham has made significant contributions to various philosophical areas, including logic, ethics, and political philosophy.