The Philosopher

Tom Baldwin

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Nationality:
British

The synopsis

Thomas R. Baldwin (born 1947) is a British philosopher and a professor of philosophy at the University of York since 1995. His work spans 20th-century analytic and Continental philosophy, as well as bioethics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. He has focused on the work of prominent philosophers such as G. E. Moore, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Bertrand Russell. Baldwin studied at Cambridge University, earning an MA and a PhD. He previously lectured at Makerere University and Cambridge. From 2005 to 2015, he served as the editor of the journal *Mind*. He has also held leadership positions, including president of the Aristotelian Society (2006–07), deputy chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on *Novel Neurotechnologies* (2013).

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