The Board of the ISFP
The Board of the International Society for Philosophers are responsible for examining essay portfolios submitted for the Associate award, as well as dissertations submitted for the Fellowship award.
Board members include DR MARTIN GOUGH of the Open University, PIERS BENN, Lecturer in Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and author of Ethics (UCL Press 1998) as well as numerous articles and reviews, and PER AAGE BRANDT, Professor of Semiotics at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Other ISFP Board members:
DAVID BELL (BA Trinity College Dublin, MA, PhD McMaster, Canada) joined the Department of Philosophy, Sheffield University after completing his postgraduate work in Canada. Before that he had also studied philosophy in Dublin and Göttingen. In recent years he has held visiting or honorary professorships in the Universities of Keele, Munich, and Leuven. He was awarded a British Academy Research Readership for the period 1993-95. In 1995-96 he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study). He has recently been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Forschungspreis (research prize) for Philosophy. During 2001-02 he was President of the Mind Association.
TONY BELLOTTI gained a BSc honours degree in Computer Science with Mathematics from the University of Bristol in 1987, a MSc in Knowledge Based Systems in 1991 and his PhD in computational learning applied to bioinformatics from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2006. He received an Associate Diploma of the Philosophical Society of England in 1999. He is currently working on statistical research in the Management School at the University of Edinburgh.
JOHN BRANDON gained a Diploma in Geology and Mineralogy from Halifax and Huddersfield Technical Colleges in 1953, following his demobilization from the British Army where he served in Germany after the end of the Second World War. Returning to study in the 70's, he gained a BA (Hons) from the Open University in Biology and Philosophy in 1976 followed by a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Leeds University (1977), an MI Biol and C Biol from the Institute of Biology, and in 1983 a BA honours degree in Philosophy from the University of London. Now retired from school teaching, he has worked tirelessly to promote the study of logic and philosophy in schools.
RACHEL BROWNE gained a BA (Hons) degree in Philosophy from King's College London in 1990 and went on to University College London where she studied for an M.Phil for two years before switching to Postgraduate Diplomas in Law from Westminster University London and the College of Law London. Her ISFP Fellowship Dissertation 'Ethical Relations' looks at interconnections between the work of Melanie Klein and the philosophers Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas.
MATTHEW DEL NEVO studied creative writing at the Bezalel Institute in Jerusalem and philosophy of religion at the Hebrew University there. Coming to Australia in 1987, Matthew wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Sydney on Edmond Jabès' singular and unclassifiable writings, Le Livre des questions (in 7 volumes), Le Livre des ressemblances (in 3 volumes), Le Livre des limites (in 4 volumes). Matthew is currently lecturing within the Sydney College of Divinity.
HUBERTUS FREMEREY is a theoretical physicist who has worked as a computer software developer in the industry. In his philosophical work, he has sought to understand modern industrial and postindustrial society and state and its philosophical aspects indicated by such catchwords as "progress", "alienation", "modernization". He has contributed articles to Philosophy Pathways on the notion of a "good society" and a critique of the "two cultures" of scientists and humanists.
GEOFFREY KLEMPNER studied Philosophy at Birkbeck College, gaining a BA honours degree from the University of London in 1976, and went on to University College Oxford where he gained his B.Phil and D.Phil with a thesis on metaphysics and the philosophy of language. His book Naive Metaphysics was published in 1994.
JÜRGEN LAWRENZ gained BA honours (first class) in Philosophy from the Sydney College of Divinity and MA honours (first class) with a Thesis on Leibniz and Modern Cosmology. Between 1997 and 2002 he published four books of original philosophy in Australia. He has taught at government, private and university colleges in Sydney in philosophy, the history of ideas, the philosophy of science and art. He is currently researching for his doctorate in philosophy at Sydney University.
SAMUEL MICHAELIDES gained a BA (Hons) degree in English Literature from De Montfort University, Leicester in 2002. After his degree he worked as a press officer for the British Government. In 2005, he enrolled for the Pathways Philosophy of Mind program and in October of that year applied for a graduate place at the University of Reading, gaining an MA in Philosophy in 2006. He now plans to work his way around the world before returning to continue his PhD.
DAN 0'BRIEN BSc (Hons) MA MPhil PhD is Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham University and an Associate Lecturer with the Open University. His research is currently focused on the epistemology of testimony and Hume's philosophy of religion. His recent publications include An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (Polity, 2006), Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Reader's Guide (Continuum, 2006, with Alan Bailey) and Naturalism and the Philosophy of Mind (Mellen Academic, forthcoming 2007).
DMITRY OLSHANSKY Philosopher and interpreter. BA in Philosophy (Urals University, Russia), post-graduate student at the St. Petersburg State University. Active member of Russian Philosophical Society (2000) and member of Philosophical Society of England (2003). Russia editor of journal 'The Philosopher'. Author of 120 philosophical articles and essays, published in Russian, English and Czech, as well as translations into Russian of the works by John Dewey, William Golding, James Joyce, Jaques Derrida, and Umberto Eco.
BRIAN TEE gained a BA honours degree in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield in 2001, and completed his MA with a dissertation on Emmanuel Levinas in 2003. His PhD thesis topic is the phenomenology of evil and the possibility of forgiveness, looking at the work of Buber, Adorno and Derrida.
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