# List of philosophers associated with Balliol College, Oxford

This is a list of philosophers associated with Balliol College, Oxford.

## Philosophers and social-political theorists

| Name | Join Date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
| Sir William Hamilton | 1807 | metaphysics | Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Edinburgh Philosophy of the Unconditioned 1829 | |
| Thomas Hill Green | 1854 | British idealism | Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy Husband of Charlotte Byron Symonds who promoted women's education His teaching is considered the most potent philosophical influence in England during the last quarter of the 19th century, cited by many social liberal politicians, often Balliol alumni, such as Herbert Samuel and H. H. Asquith Prolegomena to Ethics 1884 postumously | $^{:13}$ |
| Edward Caird | 1860 | British idealism | FBA, FRSE Chair of Moral Philosophy, Glasgow Master of Balliol brother of theologian John Caird The Evolution of Religion 1893 | $^{:30}$ |
| Alfred Barratt | 1862 | panpsychism | Fellow, Brasenose College Physical Ethics 1869 | $^{:37}$ |
| William Wallace | 1864 | German philosophy | Fellow of Merton College White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The Logic and Prolegomena of Hegel 1873 Kant 1882 | $^{:45}$ |
| Richard Lewis Nettleship | 1865 | British idealism | Fellow The Theory of Education in Plato's Republic 1935 (43 years posthumous) | $^{:48}$ |
| Bernard Bosanquet | 1866 | British idealism | FBA Husband of social theorist and reformer Helen Bosanquet The Philosophical Theory of the State 1899 | $^{:49}$ |
| John Cook Wilson | 1867 | logic | FBA, Fellow of New College Wykeham Professor of Logic Disputed the barbershop paradox with Lewis Carroll | $^{:55}$ |
| David George Ritchie | 1873 | British idealism | Fellow Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, St Andrews Natural Rights 1895 | $^{:82}$ |
| Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead | 1874 | arts and crafts | Founded Byrdcliffe Colony New York | |
| Samuel Alexander | 1878 | emergentist | OM, FBA Professor of Philosophy, Manchester Moral Order and Progress 1889 | $^{:4}$ |
| F. C. S. Schiller | 1882 | pragmatism | FBA, Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford Visiting Professor USC | $^{:12}$ |
| John Alexander Smith | 1883 | British idealism | FBA Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy Instigator of the new PPE degree | $^{:14}$ |
| Robert Ranulph Marett | 1885 | anthropology | Rector of Exeter College | |
| Harold Joachim | 1886 | coherence theory of truth | FBA Wykeham Professor of Logic The Nature of Truth 1906 | $^{:19}$ |
| Sir Ernest Barker | 1893 | political science | FBA, Principal KCL Professor, Political Science, Cambridge | |
| Sir W. D. Ross | 1896 | moral realism | FBA White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The Right and the Good | $^{:50}$ |
| Sir Leon Simon | 1900 | Zionism | Balfour Declaration President, Hebrew University | |
| Olaf Stapledon | 1905 | transhumanism | expressed philosophy through Science Fiction Last and First Men | $^{:106}$ |
| Herbert James Paton | 1908 | German philosophy | FBA White's Professor of Moral Philosophy brains behind the Curzon Line 1919 splitting Poland | $^{:130}$ |
| John Macmurray | 1913 | personalism | Fellow Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at UCL Professor of Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh | $^{:168}$ |
| Austin Marsden Farrer | 1923 | theology | FBA, Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford Warden, Keble College "one of the greatest figures of 20th-century Anglicanism" | $^{:244}$ |
| John Niemeyer Findlay | 1924 | rational mysticism | Rhodes Scholar Professor of Philosophy, KCL/Yale/Boston | $^{:253}$ |
| J. L. Austin | 1929 | philosophy of language | FBA, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy How to Do Things with Words 1955 | $^{:296}$ |
| Norman O. Brown | 1932 | Freudo-Marxism | professor of Classics at Wesleyan | |
| Sir Stuart Hampshire | 1933 | philosophy of mind | FBA, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, UCL Head of Philosophy, Princeton Warden, Wadham College Thought and Action | $^{:222}$ |
| Peter Geach | 1934 | Philosophical logic | Hon. Fellow, Professor of Logic, Leeds married to philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe | $^{:188}$ |
| R. M. Hare | 1937 | moral philosophy | FBA,White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The Language of Morals 1952 | $^{:225}$ |
| David Pears | 1939 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE "one-man crusader for critical rationalism" Words and Things 1959 | $^{:423}$ |
| Richard Wollheim | 1941 | philosophy of art | Grote Professor of Mind and Logic, UCL Art And Its Objects | $^{:593}$ |
| Ernest Gellner | 1943 | European philosophy | FBA, Fellow, Christ Church "the only Wittgensteinian to get Wittgenstein right" | $^{:189}$ |
| Sir Bernard Williams | 1947 | Moral philosophy | FBA, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford "a good claim to be the leading British philosopher of his day" (Martin Hollis) Utilitarianism: For and Against CUP 1973 | $^{:584}$ |
| John Lucas | 1947 | philosophy of mathematics | FBA, Fellow at Merton College Minds, Machines and Gödel 1959 | $^{:336}$ |
| Alan Montefiore | 1948 | European philosophy | Fellow A Modern Introduction to Moral PhilosophyRoutledge 1958 | $^{:381}$ |
| Peter Sedgwick | 1952 | international socialism | PsychoPolitics 1982 | |
| Charles Taylor | 1952 | political philosophy | FRSC, Rhodes Scholar, Professor at McGill The first president of the Oxford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament A Secular Age HUP 2007 | $^{:533}$ |
| Steven Lukes | 1958 | sociology | FBA, professor of politics and sociology at NYU Power: A Radical View 3rd Ed. 2021 | |
| Alan Ryan | 1959 | political philosophy | FBA, Professor of Politics, Oxford The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill MacMillan 1970 | $^{:471}$ |
| Hans Sluga | 1960 | German philosophy | Professor, Berkeley The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein CUP 1996 | $^{:501}$ |
| Derek Parfit | 1961 | moral philosophy | Fellow of All Souls widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, whose first book, Reasons and Persons (OUP 1984) has been described as the most significant work of moral philosophy since the 1800s | $^{:418}$ |
| Sir Neil MacCormick | 1963 | jurisprudence | FRS, FRSE, Fellow Regius Chair of Public Law, Edinburgh MEP Law, State and Practical Reason, OUP 2011 | $^{:342}$ |
| Roy Bhaskar | 1963 | critical realism | Master A Realist Theory of Science, Verso 1975 | $^{:41}$ |
| Robert D. Putnam | 1963 | social capital | Fulbright Fellow two-level game theoryBowling Alone |
| Sir Anthony Kenny | 1964 | philosophy of mind | Master A New History of Western Philosophy OUP 2010 | $^{:294}$ |
| Kit Fine | 1964 | philosophical logic | Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics, New York Vagueness: A Global Approach OUP 2020 | $^{:166}$ |
| Martin Hollis | 1965 | rationality | Tutor Professor, University of East Anglia editor Ratio Puzzler | $^{:250}$ |
| Arthur Prior | 1967 | temporal logic | Fellow Time and Modality, OUP 1957 | $^{:441}$ |
| William Newton-Smith | 1967 | philosophy of science | Fellow The Rationality of Science Routledge 1981 | $^{:399}$ |
| David Miller | 1967 | social justice | Professor of Political Theory, Oxford | |
| Alex Callinicos | 1968 | Trotskyism | The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx 2012 | |
| Michael E. Rosen | 1970 | Continental philosophy | Professor of Government at Harvard | |
| Joseph Raz | 1972 | jurisprudence | FBA, Fellow The Concept of a Legal System: An Introduction to the Theory of a Legal System, 2nd Ed OUP 1980 | $^{:451}$ |
| Hilary Lawson | 1973 | anti-realism | TV producer Founded the Institute of Art and Ideas | $^{:314}$ |
| Timothy Williamson | 1974 | philosophical logic | Wykeham Professor of Logic, Fellow of New College Knowledge and Its Limits OUP 2000 | $^{:587}$ |
| Michael Sandel | 1975 | political philosophy | Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Government, Harvard Justice: the right things to do, popular Harvard course | $^{:477}$ |
| Sir Geoff Mulgan | 1979 | collective intelligence | Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at UCL |
| Adrian William Moore | 1979 | metaphysics | FBA, Professor of Philosophy, Oxford The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things, CUP 2012 | $^{:382}$ |
| Stephen Macedo | 1980 | liberalism | Professor of Politics at Princeton | |
| Ian Rumfitt | 1983 | philosophy of language | FBA, Fellow, All Souls The Boundary Stones of Thought, Clarendon 2015 | $^{:470}$ |
| Paul W. Franks | 1983 | Jewish philosophy | Professor of Philosophy, Yale All or Nothing: Skepticism, Transcendental Arguments and Systematicity in German Idealism, HUP 2005 | $^{:176}$ |
| Cheryl Misak | 1984 | pragmatism | Rhodes Scholar, FRSC Professor of Philosophy, Toronto Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, OUP 2020 | $^{:378}$ |
| Stephen Mulhall | 1984 | German philosophy | Fellow, New College The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy, OUP 2015 | $^{:414}$ |
| Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford | 1986 | philosophy of language | Professor of Philosophy, Reading I: The Meaning of the First Person Term Clarendon 2006 | $^{:129}$ |
| Michael Otsuka | 1986 | political philosophy | Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers Libertarianism Without Inequality OUP 2003 | $^{:414}$ |
| Herman Cappelen | 1987 | philosophy of language | Professor of Philosophy, Hong Kong Bad Language (with Josh Dever) OUP 2019 | $^{:81}$ |
| John Tasioulas | 1989 | moral philosophy | Rhodes Scholar Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy | $^{:531}$ |
| Katherine Hawley | 1989 | metaphysics | How Things Persist 2002 How To Be Trustworthy 2020 | $^{:232}$ |
| Graeme Garrard | 1990 | political philosophy | Professor of Politics at Cardiff The Return of the State: And Why it is Essential for our Health, Wealth and Happiness 2022 | |
| Raj_Patel | 1991 | social justice | Stuffed and StarvedThe Value of Nothing | |
| Aly Kassam-Remtulla | 1999 | multiculturalism | Vice Provost for International Affairs, Princeton | |
| Toby Ord | 2003 | effective altruism | Founded Giving What We Can The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity | |