Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy
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The Wilde Professorship of Mental Philosophy is a chair in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Its holder is elected to a Fellowship of Corpus Christi College.
The position was initially established in 1898 as a readership by an endowment from the engineer Henry Wilde.[1] The first Wilde Readers were the notable psychologists George Stout, William McDougall and William Brown.The post was converted to a professorship in 2000, on the recommendation of the Literae Humaniores Board and with the concurrence of the General Board.
According to the University's statutes: "The Wilde Professor shall lecture and give instruction in Mental Philosophy, and shall from time to time lecture on the more theoretical aspects of Psychology."[2]
Wilde Professors
- 2000–2006: John Campbell, later Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley[3]
- 2006–2016: Martin Davies[4]
- 2018–present: Michael Gerard Fitzgerald Martin[5]