Susanne Bobzien
MA, DPhil
Senior Research Fellow from 2013
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Background
- Professor of Philosophy, then Senior Research Scholar (since 2010), Yale University (from 2002)
- CUF Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford (from 1993 to 2002)
- Official Fellow and Praelector in Philosophy, The Queen’s College, Oxford (from 1990 to 2002)
- Tutor and Fellow in Philosophy, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1989 to 1990)
- Postgraduate student, University of Oxford (from 1987 to 1993)
- Postgraduate student, University of Bonn (from 1985 to 1987)
Research interests
- History of philosophy: ancient logic and ancient theories of determinism and freedom
- Contemporary philosophy: philosophy of logic and language, with a focus on vagueness
Selected publications
- Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (OUP, 1998)
- ‘Paradoxes of Presupposition in Antiquity’, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 15 (2012), forthcoming
- ‘Higher-order Vagueness and Borderline Nestings’, Analytic Philosophy 53 (2012), forthcoming
- ‘The Combinatorics of Stoic Conjunction’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 40 (2011), 157-88
- ‘In Defense of True Higher-Order Vagueness’, Synthese 180 (2011), 317-35
- 'Higher-order Vagueness, Radical Unclarity, and Absolute Agnosticism', Philosophers' Imprint 10, No. 10, (2010), 1-30
- Publications (External Link)
Other professional memberships and roles
- Member, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton (2008-9)
- Visiting Senior Fellow, Yale University
- Visiting Professor, Padua University
- Visiting Professor, Bern University
Research awards and grants
- Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities (from 2008 to 2009)
- Research Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (from 2008 to 2009)
- British Academy Research Readership (from 2000 to 2002)