Professor Mark Addis - Research Details
Education
BA (Hons) PPE- University of Oxford
MSc Computing- University of York
PhD Philosophy- University of Leeds
PG Dip Education- Birmingham City University
Teaching
Philosophy, Cultural Theory, and Twentieth Century Literature
Postgraduate Supervision
Currently engaged in doctoral student supervision. Proposals for research on the History of Analytic Philosophy (especially Wittgenstein), Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind or Philosophy of Religion are especially welcomed. The Faculty also offers supervision in a number of other areas of philosophy.
Research Interests
Primarily Wittgenstein and related areas but also has active research interests in the philosophies of language, mind, religion and (to a lesser extent) mathematics.
Visiting appointments
Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University in 2005 (www2.gsu.edu/~wwwphi/4622.html)
Visiting Professor at the Institute for Philosophy and History of Ideas Aarhus University 2007 onwards (www.ifi.au.dk/ifi/unit/welcome)
Publications
Books
Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum, 2006
Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion, paperback edition, Robert Arrington co-editor, Routledge, London, 2004
Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion, Robert Arrington co-editor, Routledge, London, 2001
Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999
Chapters
"D.Z. Phillips' Fideism in Wittgenstein's Mirror," Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (see above), 2001
"Editors' Introduction," Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (see above), 2001
"Wittgenstein and the Transfinite in Set Theory," Klaus Puhl (ed.), Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics, Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna, 1993
Journal Publications
"Intellectual Property and the Public Interest," The International Journal of the Book, 6:1, 2009 (http://ijb.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.27/prod.272)
"Teaching the Contemporary: Fiction," co-author Philip Tew, Changing English, 14:3, 2007
"Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument and Self Consciousness," Sats- Nordic Journal of Philosophy, 8:2, 2007. (Invited reprint in Analysis and Metaphysics, 6, 2007)
"English and Philosophy," English Subject Centre Newsletter, 6, 2004
"Criteria: the State of the Debate," Journal of Philosophical Research, XX, 1995
"Surveyability and the Sorites Paradox," Philosophia Mathematica, 3:2, 1995
"Aristotle: the Intellectual Virtues, with Special Reference to Practical Wisdom," Cogito, 5, 1991
Reviews and other publication
Teaching the Contemporary: Fiction Report, co-author Philip Tew, 2007 (www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/projects/archive/contemp/contemp1.php)
"Seeing As," Bruce Goldstein (ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception, Sage, 2009
Entries on Goodstein, MacDonald, Masterman, and Pears, Stuart Brown (ed.), Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, Bristol 2005. (Reprinted in A.C. Grayling, Andrew Pyle, Naomi Goulder (eds.), Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, Thoemmes Continuum, London 2006)
Review of J.M. Lazenby “The Early Wittgenstein on Religion”, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2008 (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=12084)
Review of John Cook "The Undiscovered Wittgenstein: The Twentieth Century's Most Misunderstood Philosopher", Philosophy in Review, 2007
Extended review of David Stern and Bela Szabados, "Wittgenstein reads Weininger: a Reassessment" and Peter Munz "Beyond Wittgenstein's Poker", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 13:3, 2005
Review of Gordon Baker "Wittgenstein: Neglected Aspects", International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 13:4, 2005
Review of John Cook, "Wittgenstein's Metaphysics", Mind, 105, 1996
Forthcoming Publications
"Methodology and Meaning in the Cognitive Science of Religion" Jeppe Jensen (ed.), Meaning in Religion, Cognition and Culture, Equinox Press, London, 2010
"Wittgenstein and the Naturalness of Religious Belief," Armin Geertz (ed.), Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture, Equinox Press, London, 2010(http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/showbook.asp?bkid=358)
Grants
English Subject Centre: Teaching the Contemporary: Fiction (2004)
AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship: Philosopher in Residence in Construction Companies (2008)(www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundedResearch/Pages/ResearchDetail.aspx?id=143317)
Joint Nordic Use of the Wittgenstein Archives at Bergen and Georg Henrik von Wright Archives in Helsinki: User Driven Thematic Search in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology (2008)(http://wab.aksis.uib.no/wab_userprojects.page#sb)
Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies: Midlands Philosophy Research Training Network (2008) (http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk/view.html/prsfundedprojects/40)
CETL Birmingham City University: Applying Expertise in Context to Improve Vocational Education (2008) (www.bcu.ac.uk/cetl/innovations-learning-teaching#6)
Editorial activities
General Editor for the Philosophy Insights series at Humanities-Ebooks (www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk)
Professional Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Aristotelian Society
British Philosophical Association Executive Committee (Treasurer 2008-2011) and School Committee (www.bpa.ac.uk)
British Society for the History of Philosophy
British Wittgenstein Society (www.britishwittgensteinsociety.herts.ac.uk)
Nordic Network for Wittgenstein Research (http://nnwr.net)
Other
Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College (2007-2014)
Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College Technical Reviewer (2008-2012)
Assessment and Qualifications Alliance Subject Advisory Committee for Religious Studies and Philosophy
Assessment and Qualifications Alliance Subject Advisory Committee for Critical Thinking
HEA Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies Advisory Board
Executive Committee UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies (http://modern-fiction-network.org/about/committee.html)
External examiner Philosophy programme University of Wolverhampton (2008-2012)
Editorial consultant to the German Dictionary of Philosophical Terms, Philip Herdina and Elmar Waibl (eds.), Routledge.(http://www.routledge.com/books/German-Dictionary-of-Philosophical-Terms-Worterbuch-Philosophischer-Fachbegriffe-Englisch-isbn9780415178891)
International partner Aarhus University Religion, Cognition and Culture research group (http://www.teo.au.dk/forskning/aktuelt/religion/deltagere)
Mark's contributions to the study of Wittgenstein are widely cited across academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and have received international recognition.