Magdalen College
OX1 4AU, Oxford, United Kingdom
+44 1295 278283
Andrew Bacon andrew.bacon@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
http://users.ox.ac.uk/∼lady1900/
Employment
2010–present Junior Research Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford University.
Education
2003–2007 MMathPhil, Oxford University, First class.
Maths and Philosophy
2007–2009 BPhil, Oxford University, Distinction.
Philosophy
2009–present DPhil, Oxford University.
Areas of specialisation
Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology.
Areas of competence
Formal Semantics, Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Frege, Mathe-
matical Logic
Prizes and honours
Prize Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College. 2010.
Gilbert Ryle Prize for highest marks in BPhil examinations. 2009.
John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy. 2008.
Wykeham Scholarship. 2007-2011
AHRC Scholarship. 2007-2011
Gibbs Prize in Philosophy for highest marks in finals. 2007.
Scholarship at Lady Margaret Hall. 2004-2007.
Talks
2007 Oxford Graduate Conference, November 10th–11th, Oxford.
‘Knowing Wh’
2007 Ockham Society, November, Oxford.
‘Locating Knowability’
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2008 Oxford/Paris Workshop on Language and Ontology, June 26th–28th, Paris, Invited
speaker.
‘Representing Counterparts’
2008 Ockham Society, November, Oxford.
‘A really weird puzzle involving: a coin, a backwards supertask, and the axiom of choice’
2009 Ockham Society, February 24, Oxford.
‘What to do when the world splits in two’
2009 Workshop on Truth and Probability, September 22, Bristol, Invited speaker.
‘Higher order indeterminacy and the revenge liar’
2009 Ockham Society, November 10, Oxford.
‘Higher order vagueness’
2010 Workshop on Vagueness and Metaphysics, III, September 16-17, Barcelona, Invited
speaker.
‘Vagueness at every order: the prospects of denying B’
2011 Mind, Language and Action, August 29 - September 2, Dubrovnik, Invited speaker.
‘A non-linguistic account of indeterminacy’
Teaching Experience
Michaelmas Teaching Assistant for logic.
Term 2008
Hilary Term Teaching Assistant for logic.
2008
Michealmas Tutor of third year course ‘Formal Logic’.
Term 2008
Hilary Term Class tutor for ‘Elements of Deductive Logic’.
2009
Trinity Term Tutor for ‘Knowledge and Reality’.
2009
Michaelmas Tutor for ‘The philosophy of logic and language’.
Term 2009
Hilary Term Class tutor for ‘Elements of Deductive Logic’.
2010
Hilary Term Tutor for ‘Logic and language’.
2010
Michaelmas Tutor for Modal Logic.
Term 2010
Academic service
Reviewer for Mind, The Journal of Philosophical Logic and Erkenntnis
Jowett Society, committee member 2010-2011
Convener of the metaphysics, language and epistemology seminar 2009-2010.
Initiated and convened a modal logic reading group 2010
Convener of Ockham Society 2007–2008
Webmaster for the Ockham Society 2007–2008
Convener of the BPhil seminar trinity term 2008
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Reviewed papers for the Oxford Graduate Conference 2008 and 2010.
Publications
A. Bacon. A paradox for supertask decision makers. Philosophical Studies, 153(2):307.
A. Bacon. Curry’s paradox and omega-inconsistency. Studia Logica, Forthcoming.
A. Bacon. Non-classical meta-theory for non-classical logic. R&R at The Journal of Philosoph-
ical Logic.
A. Bacon. Representing Counterparts. The Australasian Journal of Logic, Forthcoming.
A. Bacon and A. Cotnoir. Non-wellfounded Mereology. Review of Symbolic Logic, Forthcoming.
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