Waynflete Professors of Metaphysical Philosophy
This Waynflete Professorship is one of five statutory professorships in philosophy at the University of Oxford, the other four being the Wykeham Professorship in Logic, the White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy, the Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy, as well as the untitled professorship in Ancient Philosophy.
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- 1859–1867 Henry Longueville Mansel
- 1867–1889 Henry William Chandler
- 1889–1910 Thomas Case
- 1910–1936 John Alexander Smith
- 1936–1941 R. G. Collingwood
- 1945–1967 Gilbert Ryle
- 1968–1987 P. F. Strawson
- 1989–2000 Christopher Peacocke
- 2003–2006 Dorothy Edgington
- 2006– John Hawthorne
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