University of Reading

Name:

Professor David Oderberg

Job Title:

Professor

Contact

Email:

d.s.oderberg@reading.ac.uk
Telephone:

+44 (0) 118 378 5277

Responsibilities

Head of Department

Areas of Interest

My chief area of research is contemporary metaphysics. I have special interests in moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, and the philosophies of Aristotle and Aquinas.

My latest book, The Metaphysics of Good and Evil, was published in 2020.

I am also the author of Opting Out (IEA, 2018), Real Essentialism (Routledge, 2007), Moral Theory (Blackwell, 2000), Applied Ethics (Blackwell, 2000), and The Metaphysics of Identity over Time (Palgrave, 1993).

In addition, I am: editor of Classifying Reality (Blackwell, 2012); editor of Form and Matter: Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics (Blackwell, 1999); The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers (MIT Press, 2005); co-editor of Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (Palgrave, 1997); and co-editor of Human Values: New Essays on Ethics and Natural Law (Palgrave, 2004).

PhD supervision:

I usually supervise around five PhD students, mainly in my areas of expertise. I am happy to supervise doctoral research students in the following areas: metaphysics, Aristotle, Aquinas, ethics, philosophy of religion.

Undergraduate Teaching:

I currently lecture the Part 3 module Society and State in Ancient Greece.

See Professor Oderberg's personal page

Research groups / Centres

I am the editor of Ratio, an international journal of analytic philosophy, and on the editorial boards of Metaphysica and Studia Neo-Aristotelica.

Publications

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Number of items: 54.

2021

Hill, J., Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515, Gibbins, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0372-5352 and Bojak, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1765-3502 (2021) Mistake-making: a theoretical framework for generating research questions in biology, with illustrative application to blood clotting. Quarterly Review of Biology. ISSN 0033-5770 (In Press)
Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2021) Is prime matter energy? Australasian Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 1471-6828 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2021.2010222 (In Press)
Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2021) Restoring the hierarchy of being. In: Simpson, W. M. R., Koons, R. C. and Orr, J. (eds.) Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics. Routledge. ISBN 9780367637149
Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2021) The order of charity. Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, 4. pp. 337-355. ISSN 2522-0071 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42048-021-00107-6

2019

Oderberg, D. (2019) The Metaphysics of Good and Evil. Routledge, pp226. ISBN 9780367408640
Oderberg, D. S. (2019) Death, unity and the brain. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 40 (5). pp. 359-379. ISSN 1573-1200 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-019-09479-8
Oderberg, D. S. (2019) How special is medical conscience? The New Bioethics, 25 (3). pp. 207-220. ISSN 2050-2885 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2019.1651078
Oderberg, D. (2019) On a so-called demonstration of the causal power of absences. Studia Neoaristotelica, 16 (1). pp. 141-148. ISSN 1804-6843 doi: https://doi.org/10.5840/studneoar20191614

2018

Oderberg, D. (2018) The impossibility of natural necessity. In: Carruth, A., Gibb, S. C. and Heil, J. (eds.) Ontology, Modality, and Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E.J. Lowe. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198796299
Oderberg, D. S. (2018) Opting out: conscience and cooperation in a pluralistic society. Institute of Economic Affairs, pp. 1-155. ISBN 9780255367615
Oderberg, D. (2018) The great unifier: form and the unity of the organism. In: Simpson, W. M. R., Koons, R. C. and Teh, N. J. (eds.) Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Routledge, pp. 210-232. ISBN 9780415792561

2017

Oderberg, D. S. (2017) No beginning, no explanation: the kalām cosmological argument and the principle of sufficient reason. In: Copan, P. and Lane Craig, W. (eds.) The Kalām Cosmological Argument Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past. Bloomsbury.
Oderberg, D. S. (2017) Finality revived: powers and intentionality. Synthese, 194 (7). pp. 2387-2425. ISSN 1573-0964 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1057-5
Oderberg, D. S. (2017) Should there be freedom of dissociation? Economic Affairs, 37 (2). pp. 167-181. ISSN 1468-0270 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecaf.12231
Oderberg, D. S. (2017) Further clarity on co-operation and morality. Journal of Medical Ethics, 43 (4). pp. 192-200. ISSN 1473-4257 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2016-103476
Oderberg, D. S. (2017) Co-operation in the age of Hobby Lobby: when sincerity is not enough. Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 11 (1). pp. 15-30. ISSN 1747–5376

2016

Oderberg, D. S. (2016) Divine premotion. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 794 (3). pp. 207-222. ISSN 1572-8684 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-015-9536-z

2015

Oderberg, D. S. (2015) Religion and normative ethics. In: Oppy, G. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion. Routledge, London, pp. 316-328. ISBN 9781844658312
Oderberg, D. S. (2015) All for the good. Philosophical Investigations, 38 (1-2). pp. 72-95. ISSN 1467-9205 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12070

2014

Oderberg, D. S. (2014) Being and goodness. American Philosophical Quarterly, 51 (4). pp. 345-356. ISSN 2152-1123
Oderberg, D. S. (2014) Could there be a superhuman species? The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 52 (2). pp. 206-226. ISSN 0038-4283 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12057
Oderberg, D. S. (2014) Is form structure? In: Novotny, D. D. and Novak, L. (eds.) Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics. Routledge, London, pp. 164-180. ISBN 9780415709392
Oderberg, D. S. (2014) The metaphysics of privation. In: Huntelmann, R. and Hattler, J. (eds.) New Scholasticism Meets Analytic Philosophy. Heusenstamm: Editiones Scholasticae, pp. 63-68. ISBN 9783868385458

2011

Oderberg, D. S. (2011) No potency without actuality: the case of graph theory. In: Tahko, T. E. (ed.) Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics. Cambridge University Press, pp. 207-228. ISBN 9781107000643
Oderberg, D. S. (2011) The world is not an asymmetric graph. Analysis, 71 (1). pp. 3-10. ISSN 1467-8284 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anq115

2010

Oderberg, D. S. (2010) Appearance and reality: what Plato can teach journalists and the media. MercatorNet.
Oderberg, D. S. (2010) 'Whatever is changing is being changed by something else': a reappraisal of premise one of the first way. In: Cottingham, J. G. and Hacker, P. (eds.) Mind, method, and morality: essays in honour of Anthony Kenny. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 140-164. ISBN 9780199556120
Oderberg, D. S. (2010) The doctrine of double effect. In: O'Connor, T. and Sandis, C. (eds.) A companion to the philosophy of action. Blackwell companions to philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 324-330. ISBN 9781405187350
Oderberg, D. S. (2010) The metaphysical foundations of natural law. In: Zaborowski, H. (ed.) Natural moral law in contemporary society. Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy (53). Catholic University of America Press, Washington DC, USA, pp. 44-75. ISBN 9780813217864

2009

Oderberg, D. (2009) The non-identity of the categorical and the dispositional. Analysis, 69 (4). pp. 677-684. ISSN 1467-8284 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anp098
Oderberg, D. (2009) Persistence. In: Kim, J., Sosa, E. and Rosenkrantz, G. (eds.) A companion to metaphysics. 2nd edition. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 55-65. ISBN 9781405152983 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405152983.2009.x

2008

Oderberg, D. (2008) The metaphysical status of the embryo: some arguments revisited. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (4). pp. 263-276. ISSN 0264-3758 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5930.2008.00421.x
Oderberg, D. (2008) Concepts, dualism, and the human intellect. In: Antonietti, A., Corradini, A. and Lowe, E. (eds.) Psycho-physical dualism today: an interdisciplinary approach. Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield Group), Lanham, MD, pp. 211-233. ISBN 9780739123843
Oderberg, D. (2008) Teleology: inorganic and organic. In: Gonzalez, A. (ed.) Contemporary perspectives on natural law. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 259-279. ISBN 9780754660545
Oderberg, D. (2008) Self-love, love of neighbour and impartiality. In: Athanassoulis, N. and Vice, S. (eds.) The moral life: essays in honour of John Cottingham. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 58-84. ISBN 9780230527560

2007

Oderberg, D. (2007) The cosmological argument. In: Meister, C. and Copan, P. (eds.) The Routledge companion to philosophy of religion. Routledge, London, pp. 341-50. ISBN 9780415380386
Oderberg, D. (2007) Real Essentialism. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. Routledge, London, pp314. ISBN 9780415872126

2006

Oderberg, D. (2006) Review: George Klosko, Jacobins and Utopians. University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Philosophy, 81 (4). pp. 690-694. ISSN 1469-817X doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819106318104
Oderberg, D. (2006) Instantaneous change without instants. In: Paterson, C. and Pugh, M. S. (eds.) Analytical Thomism: traditions in dialogue. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 101-118. ISBN 9780754634386

2005

Oderberg, D. (2005) Predicate logic and bare particulars. In: Oderberg, D. (ed.) The old new logic: essays on the philosophy of Fred Sommers. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 183-210. ISBN 9780262651066
Oderberg, D., ed. (2005) The old new logic: essays on the philosophy of Fred Sommers. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp254. ISBN 9780262651066
Oderberg, D. and Laing, J. A. (2005) Artificial reproduction, the 'welfare principle', and the common good. Medical Law Review, 13 (3). pp. 328-356. ISSN 0967-0742 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwi022
Oderberg, D. (2005) Hylemporhic dualism. In: Paul, E. F. and Miller, F. D. (eds.) Personal identity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 70-99. ISBN 9780521617673
Oderberg, D. (2005) Towards a natural law critique of genetic engineering. In: Athanassoulis, N. (ed.) Philosophical reflections on medical ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 109-134. ISBN 9781403945273

2004

Oderberg, D. S. and Chappell, T., eds. (2004) Human values: new essays on ethics and natural law. 1st edition. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781403918109
Oderberg, D. S. (2004) Perennial philosophy's theory of art. Quadrant (Jan-Feb 20). pp. 68-74. ISSN 0033-5002
Oderberg, D. S. (2004) Temporal parts and the possibility of change. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 69 (3). pp. 686-708. ISSN 1933-1592 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2004.tb00523.x
Oderberg, D. S. (2004) The ethics of co-operation in wrongdoing. In: O'Hear, A. (ed.) Modern moral philosophy. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement (54). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 203-227. ISBN 9780521603263 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246100008511
Oderberg, D. S. (2004) The structure and content of the good. In: Oderberg, D. S. and Chappell, T. (eds.) Human values: new essays on ethics and natural law. 1st edition. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 127-165. ISBN 9781403918109

2003

Oderberg, D. S. (2003) Review of 'Causing actions' by P. Pietroski. Philosophy, 78. pp. 128-132. ISSN 1469-817X
Oderberg, D. S. (2003) Review of 'Paradoxes from A to Z' by M. Clark. Times Higher Education Supplement. ISSN 0049-3929
Oderberg, D. S. (2003) Review of 'Summulae de dialectica' by J. Buridan, edited by G. Klima. Times Literary Supplement. p. 9. ISSN 0307-661X
Oderberg, D. S. (2003) Why I am a Relativist. Quadrant. pp. 38-43.
Oderberg, D. S. (2003) The beginning of existence. International Philosophical Quarterly, 43 (2). pp. 145-157. ISSN 2153-8077

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