Peter Millican | |
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![]() Millican in 2005 | |
Full name | Peter Jeremy Roach Millican |
Country | England |
Born | 1 March 1958 | (age 66)
Title | ICCF Grandmaster (1996) |
ICCF rating | 2589 (July 1999) |
ICCF peak rating | 2611 (July 1994) |
Peter Jeremy Roach Millican[1] (born 1 March 1958) is Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. His primary interests include the philosophy of David Hume, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, epistemology, and moral philosophy. Millican is particularly well known for his work on David Hume, and from 2005 until 2010 was co-editor of the journal Hume Studies. He is also an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, and has a strong interest in the field of computing and its links with philosophy. Recently he has developed a new degree programme at Oxford University, in Computer Science and Philosophy, which accepted its first students in 2012.[2] He currently hosts the University of Oxford's Futuremakers podcast, winning a CASE Gold Award in 2019.[3]
From 2014 to 2017 he maintained EarlyModernTexts.com, a site which hosts the writings of famous Early Modern writers in a somewhat modified form to make the text simpler to understand.[4]
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