Administration Guide

2. Introductions - Your Teacher

The lectures for Knowledge and Reality in 2000 will be given by Tom Bestor. That is me opposite.

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Programme of the new School of History, Philosophy and Politics. Even though I always sign myself "Thomas W. Bestor", I prefer to be called just "Tom".

I trained at various universities in the United States and Canada - Swarthmore College, University of Illinois, Claremont Graduate Centre, University of Oregon, University of Alberta. When I ran out of universities and my family ran out of patience, we gave up the life of perennial students and emigrated to Palmerston North in 1973. At various times I have been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oregon and at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University.

Most of my work and publications revolve around the philosophy of Plato, the Philosophy of Mind, and the Philosophy of Language. Such a "specialisation" is happily capacious and allows me to roam about Descartes, Wittgenstein and the border territories between Philosophy and Cognitive Science.

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