Tim Crane
Tim
Crane received the Armenson Medal in the year 2020 in the Philosophy category.
Tim Crane was born in Oxford in 1962. He studied at the universities of Durham, York and Cambridge, and he took his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1989. For twenty years he worked at the University of London, first at King’s College London for one year, and then at UCL for nineteen years. During this time, he founded the Institute of Philosophy in the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, and was its first Director from 2005 to 2008.
In 2009 Tim Crane returned to the University of Cambridge where he took up the position of Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, one of the oldest professorships in the University, and one of the most distinguished academic philosophy positions in the English-speaking world. He was also a fellow of Peterhouse, the oldest college of the University of Cambridge. In 2017 he moved to the Central European University in Budapest, and in 2020 that University’s campus moved to Vienna.
Between 2012 and 2020 Tim Crane was the philosophy editor of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), and between 2011 and 2017 he was the general editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He has been a visiting professor in the USA, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. His philosophical writings have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.
Tim Crane has written six books, has edited four more, and has published over one hundred and twenty academic articles. His philosophical work has mostly been in the philosophy of the mind: he has aimed to understand the nature of the human mind in its most general form, and to understand how the human mind fits into the rest of the natural world. He has also written on questions of existence, and what it means to think about things that do not exist. His most recent book, The Meaning of Belief (Harvard University Press 2017) is an attempt to understand the nature of religious belief, from his own atheistic point of view. In this book, he criticises the conception of belief put forward by the so-called ‘New Atheists’ and urges that atheists should learn the importance of tolerance in their relationship to religious belief and believers. He is currently working on the nature of the unconscious mind, as conceived in philosophy, cognitive science and psychoanalysis. He is also writing a book for a more general audience criticising some of the claims that have been made on behalf of Artificial Intelligence.
Tim Crane is married to the philosopher Katalin Farkas, has three children and lives in Vienna, Austria.
Tim Crane was born in Oxford in 1962. He studied at the universities of Durham, York and Cambridge, and he took his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1989. For twenty years he worked at the University of London, first at King’s College London for one year, and then at UCL for nineteen years. During this time, he founded the Institute of Philosophy in the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, and was its first Director from 2005 to 2008.
In 2009 Tim Crane returned to the University of Cambridge where he took up the position of Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, one of the oldest professorships in the University, and one of the most distinguished academic philosophy positions in the English-speaking world. He was also a fellow of Peterhouse, the oldest college of the University of Cambridge. In 2017 he moved to the Central European University in Budapest, and in 2020 that University’s campus moved to Vienna.
Between 2012 and 2020 Tim Crane was the philosophy editor of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), and between 2011 and 2017 he was the general editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He has been a visiting professor in the USA, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. His philosophical writings have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.
Tim Crane has written six books, has edited four more, and has published over one hundred and twenty academic articles. His philosophical work has mostly been in the philosophy of the mind: he has aimed to understand the nature of the human mind in its most general form, and to understand how the human mind fits into the rest of the natural world. He has also written on questions of existence, and what it means to think about things that do not exist. His most recent book, The Meaning of Belief (Harvard University Press 2017) is an attempt to understand the nature of religious belief, from his own atheistic point of view. In this book, he criticises the conception of belief put forward by the so-called ‘New Atheists’ and urges that atheists should learn the importance of tolerance in their relationship to religious belief and believers. He is currently working on the nature of the unconscious mind, as conceived in philosophy, cognitive science and psychoanalysis. He is also writing a book for a more general audience criticising some of the claims that have been made on behalf of Artificial Intelligence.
Tim Crane is married to the philosopher Katalin Farkas, has three children and lives in Vienna, Austria.