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Professor Anthony O'Hear
Job title: Weston Professor of Philosophy
Department: Education
Areas of expertise:
- Most areas of philosophy but especially philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, aesthetics and culture, political philosophy and ethics (including medical ethics).
- Educational philosophy and practice; the curriculum; moral and religious education; education and politics.
Publications:
- Plato's Children. Gordon Square, 2005.
- Philosophy in the New Century . Continuum, 2001.
- After Progress . Bloomsbury, 1999.
- Beyond Evolution: human nature and the limits of evolutionary explanation. Clarendon Press, 1997.
- Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Oxford University Press, 1989.
- The Element of Fire: science, art and the human world. Routledge, 1988.
- Karl Popper . Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980
- Professor O'Hear has also been editor of the journal Philosophy since 1995.
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