Curriculum Vitae: Professional Activities

Dr Michael Beaney

National and International

British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP)

• Member of Management Committee 1995–
• Treasurer 1996–99
• Membership Secretary 1997–99
• Web Officer 1996–

Conference Organization

• 11 November 1995: ‘Collingwood and his Significance’, BSHP Conference, University of Leeds, co-organised with Adrian Wilson
• 31 March – 2 April 1998: Thinking Through History, BSHP Conference, University of Leeds, co-organised with Adrian Wilson
• 14 June 2004: OU Philosophy Research Group in Mind, Meaning and Rationality Inaugural Conference, Milton Keynes, co-organised with Carolyn Price
• 30 March – 1 April 2005: The Varieties of Analysis, BSHP Conference, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford
• 3 – 5 April 2006: Philosophy and Historiography, BSHP Conference, Robinson College, Cambridge, co-organised with Cristina Chimisso
• 8 June 2006: ‘Literature, the Literary and the Literal’, Conference on Aesthetics, University of York , co-organised with James Clarke

Editing

• Editor, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009/10
• Series Editor, Book Series on History of Analytic Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan
• Series Editor, Series of 8 Volumes on the History of Philosophy, Continuum Books, London

Examining

• External Examiner, University of London, Extra-Mural Department, 1994–2000
• Examiner of PhD thesis on ‘Kant and the Self’, University of Leeds, December 1997
• Examiner of PhD thesis on ‘Frege’s Logicism’, University of London, June 2002
• Internal Assessor for PhD thesis on ‘Leibniz’s Cosmology’, Open University, July 2002
• Examiner of PhD thesis on ‘Naming and Predicating in Propositional Analysis’, University of Bristol, April 2005
• Examiner of PhD thesis ‘On the Informative Character of Analytic Knowledge: A Study of Frege’s Definition of Number’, Central European University, Budapest, November 2006

Membership of Professional Societies

• Aristotelian Society
• Bertrand Russell Society
• British Logic Colloquium
• British Philosophical Association
• British Society for the History of Philosophy
• Collingwood Society (Honorary Life Member)
• Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie
• Hegel Society of Great Britain
• History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
• Institute of the Vienna Circle
• Kant Society (UK)
• Mind Association

Refereeing

• Reader’s reports on proposals and typescripts for Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Continuum, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Polity Press, Routledge

• Articles refereed for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, Dialectica, Dialogue, Erkenntnis, Grazer Philosophische Studien, History and Philosophy of Logic, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, Mind, Philosophia, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Science in Context, Synthese, The Sociological Review

Departmental

University of York

• Chair of Board of Studies (Philosophy), Summer Term 2006, 2007-9
• Departmental Web Officer

Open University

• Philosophy Representative, Faculty Tuition Committee, 2001–04
• Faculty Representative, University Co-publishing Committee, 2003–05
• Director of Mind, Meaning and Rationality Research Group, 2003–05
• Philosophy Postgraduate Tutor for Research Degree Admissions, 2003–05

University of Manchester

• Philosophy Research Seminar Organizer 1998–99

University of Leeds

• Member of Staff/Student Committee 1993–98
• Chair of Staff/Student Committee 1996–98
• Member of Teaching and Learning (previously Courses) Committee 1996–98
• Information Officer (including production of undergraduate brochure) 1993–98
• Editor of World Wide Web Pages 1995–98

December 2007