Dugald Murdoch
About me
Dugald Murdoch was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and received his higher education at the universities of Glasgow, Uppsala, and Oxford. He holds the degrees of M.A. in Philosophy and English Language and Literature from Glasgow University, and the degrees of B.Phil. and D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University. He taught philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand for many years before coming to Stockholm University. He is now Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Philosophy.
Teaching and Research Areas
Dugald Murdoch taught the Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, the History of Greek and Modern Philosophy, and his research interests have been in the Philosophy of Science and the History of Modern Philosophy.
Selected Publications
1. ‘Abstraction vs. Exclusion’, in The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016.
2. ‘Descartes: the Real Distinction’, in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge, London, 2009.
3. ‘Induction, Hume, and Probability’, The Journal of Philosophy, 99 (4), 185-199, 2002.
4. ‘Bohr’, in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000.
5. ‘The Cartesian Circle’, The Philosophical Review, 108 (2), 221-224, 1999.
6. ‘The Bohr-Einstein Dispute’, in Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy, Jan Faye and Henry Folse (Eds.), Kluwer, Amsterdam, 1994.
7. ‘Exclusion and Abstraction in Descartes’s Metaphysics’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 43, 38-57, 1993.
8. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: the Correspondence, translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch, and Anthony Kenny, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
9. Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings, translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.
10. Niels Bohr’s Philosophy of Physics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987.
11. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volumes I and II, translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985.