The Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy is an academic of the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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The position was initially established as a readership and was converted to a professorship in 2000, on the recommendation of the Literae Humaniores

Literae Humaniores

Literae Humaniores is the name given to an undergraduate course focused on Classics at Oxford and some other universities.The Latin name means literally "more humane letters", but is perhaps better rendered as "Advanced Studies", since humaniores has the sense of "more refined" or "more learned",...

 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."

Wilde Professors

• 2000–2006: John Campbell
  John Campbell (philosopher)
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  , Fellow of Corpus Christi College
  Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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  , later Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley
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• 2006– : Martin Davies, Fellow of Corpus Christi College