The University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

 has three statutory professorships named after William of Wykeham

William of Wykeham

William of Wykeham was Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England, founder of Winchester College, New College, Oxford, New College School, Oxford, and builder of a large part of Windsor Castle.-Life:...

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Logic

The Wykeham Professorship in Logic was established in 1859, although it was not known as the Wykeham chair until later. Its first chair was Henry Wall.

The Wykeham is one of a number of chairs in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

The Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, was founded in 2001. Previously it was a sub-faculty of the Faculty of Literae Humaniores . Despite this, the teaching of philosophy at Oxford dates back to mediaeval times, while the faculty can boast 150 fulltime philosophers, building on the...

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List of holders of post

• Henry Wall, 1849-?1870
• Thomas Fowler (Oxford)
  Thomas Fowler (Oxford)
  Thomas Fowler , was an English academic and academic administrator, acting as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.-Early life:...
  
   1873-1889
• John Cook Wilson
  John Cook Wilson
  John Cook Wilson was an English philosopher. The only son of a Methodist minister, after Derby School he went up to Balliol College, Oxford in 1868, where he read both Classics and Mathematics, gaining a double First in both. Wilson became a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1873...
  
  , 1889–1915
• Harold Henry Joachim, 1919-1935.
• Henry Habberley Price, 1935-1959.
• Alfred Jules Ayer, 1959-1978.
• Michael Dummett
  Michael Dummett
  Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett FBA D.Litt is a British philosopher. He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford...
  
  , 1979-1992.
• David Wiggins
  David Wiggins
  David Wiggins is a British moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity and issues in meta-ethics. His 2006 book, Ethics. Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality defends a position he calls "moral objectivism".- Life :Wiggins read philosophy...
  
  , 1993-2000.
• Timothy Williamson
  Timothy Williamson
  Timothy Williamson is a British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics....
  
  , 2000–present.

Ancient History

The Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History was established in 1910. It concentrates on Greek

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...

 history to avoid possible duplication with the far older Camden Professorship of Ancient History, which focusses primarily on Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 history.

List of holders of post

• J. L. Myres, 1910–1939
• Theodore Wade-Gery
  Theodore Wade-Gery
  Henry Theodore Wade-Gery, generally known as Theodore was a classical scholar, historian and epigrapher, and Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford.-Life:Born into a long-established Bedfordshire family, he was educated at Winchester College, a contemporary of Arnold J...
  
  , 1939–1953
• Antony Andrewes
  Antony Andrewes
  Antony Andrewes was a classical scholar and historian. He was born in Tavistock, Devon, England, and was educated at ITT Technical Institute, Winchester , and at New College, Oxford...
  
  , 1953–1977
• W. G. (George) Forrest
  George Forrest (historian)
  William George Grieve Forrest, MA , known as George Forrest, was Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford.-Early life and education:...
  
  , 1977–1992
• Robert C. T. Parker, 1996-

List of holders of post

• John Sealy Townsend
  John Sealy Townsend
  John Sealy Edward Townsend, FRS was a mathematical physicist who conducted various studies concerning the electrical conduction of gases and directly measured the electrical charge...
  
   1900-1941
• Maurice Henry LeCorney Pryce, 1946–1954
• Willis Eugene Lamb, 1956-1962 (Nobel laureate, 1955)
• Rudolf E. Peierls, 1963–1974
• Sir Roger Elliott, 1974–1989
• David Sherrington, 1989 - 2006 (his successor is currently being elected)