John Campbell (philosopher)

John Campbell (born November 2, 1956) is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley, California.

[1] Campbell earned a BA at the University of Stirling, UK in 1978; an MA at the University of Calgary, Canada in 1979; and a DPhil from Christ Church, Oxford in 1983 with a thesis under the title Spatiotemporal Thinking.

[2] Before moving to Berkeley, Campbell taught at Oxford University for a number of years.

He was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University, a British Academy Research Reader and between 2003 and 2006 was the President of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

[3] In 2017, he received the Jean Nicod Prize,[4] and in 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.