Stephen Mulhall is a philosopher and Fellow of New College, Oxford

New College, Oxford

New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.- Overview :The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always...

. His main research areas are Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...

 and post-Kantian philosophy

Kantianism

Kantianism is the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher born in Königsberg, Prussia . The term Kantianism or Kantian is sometimes also used to describe contemporary positions in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics.-Ethics:Kantian ethics are deontological, revolving entirely...

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Life

Stephen Mulhall received a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford

Oxford

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 in 1983. He then pursued an MA in Philosophy from The University of Toronto in 1984. Between 1984 and 1988, he attended Balliol College and All Souls College, Oxford for his D.Phil in Philosophy. From 1986-91 he was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College and in 1991 he became a Reader of Philosophy at the University of Essex

University of Essex

The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...

. From 1998 to the present he has been a fellow at New College, Oxford.

Books

• 1990 On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects (Routledge)
• 1992 Liberals and Communitarians (Blackwell) - with Adam Swift
  Adam Swift
  Adam Swift is a British political philosopher and sociologist who specialises in debates surrounding liberal egalitarianism. He has published books on communitarianism, on the philosophical aspects of school choice, and on social justice, as well as an extremely successful introduction to...
  
  
• 1994 Stanley Cavell: Philosophy’s Recounting of the Ordinary (OUP)
• 1994 Faith and Reason (Duckworth)
• 1996 Heidegger and Being and Time (Routledge)
• 1996 Liberals and Communitarians: a Revised Edition (Blackwell) - with Adam Swift
• 1996 The Cavell Reader (Blackwell) - editor
• 2001 Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard (OUP)
• 2002 On film, London/New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0415247950 ISBN 9780415247955
• 2005 Philosophical Myths of the Fall (Princeton)
• 2005 Heidegger and Being and Time (2nd Edition)
• 2006 Martin Heidegger: International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought (Ashgate) - editor
• 2006 Wittgenstein's Private Language (OUP)
• 2007 The Conversation of Humanity (University of Virginia Press)
• 2008 On Film: Second Edition (Routledge)
• 2008 The Wounded Animal: J.M.Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality (Princeton)