Michael Beaney

Professor Michael Beaney’s post at King’s College London is held jointly with a half-time position as Professor of History of Analytic Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Before taking up these jobs he was Reader (2005–09) and then Professor of Philosophy (2009–15) at the University of York. He has also worked at the Open University (2000–05), University of Manchester (1998–99), University of Leeds (1992–98), Birkbeck College, London (1990–92) and University of Sheffield (1986–88). He has held Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowships in Germany at the University of Jena (2006–07) and University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (1999–2000), and was Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University in 2013 and 2014 and Peking University in 2011. Michael Beaney originally studied PPE at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he also did his B.Phil. and D.Phil. in Philosophy.