Curriculum Vitae: Employment History
Dr Michael Anthony Beaney
University of York 2005 –
| October 2005 – | Reader in Philosophy |
| Teaching 2007-08 | Puzzles and Paradoxes (2nd/3rd year course) Foundations of Mathematics (2nd/3rd year course) Imagination (2nd year course) |
| 2006-7 Research Leave | Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (Oct. – Dec. 2006) Institut für Philosophie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany |
| Teaching 2005-06 | Introduction to Metaphysics (1st year
course) Philosophy of Language (2nd year course) Puzzles and Paradoxes (2nd year course) |
Open University, Milton Keynes 2000–05
| October 2004 – September 2005 | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy |
| July 2000 – September 2004 | Lecturer in Philosophy |
| Course Teams | AA308 Thought and Experience, 2000-05 (Chair) A850 MA in Philosophy, 2000-05 AA301 Philosophy of the Arts, 2000-04 (Deputy Chair 2003-04) A211 Philosophy and the Human Situation, 2000-05 (Deputy Chair 2000-02) |
University of Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany 1999–2000
| July 1999 – June 2000 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow |
University of Manchester 1998–99
| September 1998 – August 1999 | Lecturer in Philosophy |
| Teaching | Early Modern
Philosophy (2nd year course)
Kant (3rd year course) Philosophy of Language (3rd year course) |
University of Leeds 1992–98
| September 1992 – July 1998 | Lecturer in Philosophy |
| Teaching 1997–98 | Modules: Meaning and
Truth (previously called ‘Introduction to Philosophical Logic’),
Introduction to Continental Philosophy, Paradoxes
Undergraduate Dissertation Supervision (Hegel; Feminism and Language) Postgraduate (MA) Course on Contemporary Issues in Philosophy (3 classes) Postgraduate (PhD) Supervision (Kant, Frege) |
| Teaching 1996–97 | Modules: Introduction to Philosophical Logic,
Kant, Feminism and Language
Undergraduate Dissertation Supervision (German Romanticism) Postgraduate (MA) Course on Contemporary Issues in Philosophy (3 classes) Postgraduate (PhD) Supervision (Frege) Study Leave in Semester 2 |
| Teaching 1995–96 | Modules: Introduction to Philosophical Logic,
Leibniz,
Kant, Paradoxes, Feminism and Language,
German Romanticism and the Enlightenment
Undergraduate Dissertation Supervision (Foundations of Analytic Philosophy; Kant; Schopenhauer) Postgraduate (PhD) Supervision (Frege; Kant) |
| Teaching 1994–95 | Modules: Introduction to Philosophical Logic,
Foundations of Analytic Philosophy, Paradoxes, Feminism and Language,
Leibniz
Postgraduate (PhD) Supervision (Frege) |
| Teaching 1993–94 | Modules: Introduction to Philosophical Logic,
Reference, Paradoxes, Feminism and Language,
Leibniz
Postgraduate (PhD) Supervision (Frege) |
| Teaching 1992–93 | Lectures and classes on
Philosophical Logic (Frege and
Russell)
Lectures and classes on Ethics (Topics in Contemporary Ethics) Postgraduate (PhD) Supervision (Frege) |
Birkbeck College, London 1990–92
| October 1990 – July 1992 | Lecturer in Philosophy (Radcliffe Lecturer 1990–1) |
| Teaching 1991-92 | 24 lectures on Modern
Philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Berkeley)
17 lectures on Recent Philosophy (Frege, Russell, early Wittgenstein) 5 lectures on Logic and Methodology (Paradoxes) Postgraduate (MA, MPhil) supervision |
| Teaching 1990-91 | 24 lectures on Modern
Philosophy (Locke, Berkeley, Leibniz)
10 lectures on Recent Philosophy (Russell, early Wittgenstein) 5 lectures on Logic and Methodology (Paradoxes) |
Birmingham University 1990
| Hilary, Trinity 1990 | Lecturer in Philosophy (Part-time) |
| Teaching | Course of lectures and associated classes on Hume |
Open University 1987–90
| 1988–90 | Associate Lecturer in Philosophy, Southern Region |
| 1987-90 | Summer School Tutor in Philosophy, Bath University |
| Courses | A311 Reason and Experience [Descartes to Hume]: classes
and correspondence tuition
A310 Life and Death: ‘The Value and Meaning of Life’ at Summer School |
University of Sheffield 1986–88
| January 1988 – July 1988 | Lecturer in Philosophy |
| Teaching | 2 lectures/week on Kant (3rd year course)
4 lectures/week on Wittgenstein (3rd year course) |
| October 1986 – June 1987 | Radcliffe Lecturer in Philosophy |
| Teaching | 3 lectures/week on Hume and Kant (3rd year course)
2 lectures/week on Frege and Wittgenstein (3rd year course) 1 lecture/week on Logic( 1st year course) 3 1st year tutorial classes/week (1st year courses: Knowledge, Ethics, Liberty, Philosophy of Religion, Logic, Free Will) |
University of Oxford 1983–89
| Trinity 1984; Trinity, Michaelmas 1987; Hilary, Trinity 1989 | College Tutor in Philosophy, Manchester College |
| Teaching | Modern Philosophy (Bacon to Kant), Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology and Metaphysics, Logic and Methodology, Philosophy of Language [for London degrees] |
| 1983–86; Michaelmas 1987 | College Tutor in Philosophy, St Catherines’s College |
| Teaching | All three first year philosophy subjects (Hume’s First Enquiry, Mill’s Utilitarianism, Logic), and the following compulsory and specialist papers in finals: General Philosophy, History of Philosophy (Descartes to Kant), Moral and Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy (The Rationalists), Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein |
December 2007