Professor Mark Textor
Professor of Philosophy
Research interests
- Philosophy
Biography
Mark did his undergraduate and graduate work in Hamburg. He has taught in Hamburg, Munich, Bern and Zurich and joined King’s in 2003. He published the page-turner Brentano’s Mind (OUP) in 2017. A symposium about the book can be found here.
His latest book is the gothic tale The Disappearance of the Soul and the Turn against Metaphysics (OUP, 2021). Currently Mark is working on a book about the German philosopher Hermann Lotze (1817-1881) with the provisional title The Interested Soul.
Research interests and PhD supervision
- 19th and early 20th century philosophy of mind and psychology (especially Brentano and Mach)
- History of Analytic Philosophy (Frege, Russell, Logical Empiricism)
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mind (especially Intentionality)
Teaching
Teaching in Philosophy of Language, History of Analytic Philosophy and Topics in Non-Analytic Philosophy.
News
Professor Mark Textor awarded AHRC-DFG research grant
Professor Mark Textor's project in collaboration with Professor Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will be funded by the AHRC-DFG grant.
News
Professor Mark Textor awarded AHRC-DFG research grant
Professor Mark Textor's project in collaboration with Professor Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will be funded by the AHRC-DFG grant.