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Welcome to the Philosophy website at Hertford College, Oxford, which is under development as a resource for our students. Others are welcome to browse, especially those who are thinking of applying to Hertford and might wish to find out something about what we do. Hertford is particularly well known for our famous bridge, often called the "Bridge of Sighs", which links the two parts of the College (shown at the left).

I am Peter Millican, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Hertford. My main research interests are in Epistemology and its history (especially David Hume), Philosophy of Logic and Language, and Philosophy of Religion. To the first years I teach Logic and General Philosophy (also giving the University lectures in General Philosophy). To the upper years I teach History of Modern Philosophy, Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion. To find out more, click on my name or picture.

Davide Cargnello is Lecturer in Philosophy and Political Theory, with research interests in German Idealism (especially Hegel) and in Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy. Davide teaches John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism to most of the first years, and also some of "Theorising the Democratic State" to PPE. To the upper years, Davide teaches Ethics and Theory of Politics, and is also available for Modern Continental Philosophy.

Mark Thakkar is Lecturer in Philosophy, with research interests in Medieval Philosophy (especially Peter Auriol and Gregory of Rimini), Philosophy of Language, Ancient Philosophy, and History and Philosophy of Science and of Mathematics. Mark teaches Logic to the first years, and Philosophy of Logic and Language to upper years (including graduate classes on conditionals).

Hertford College was formed from the amalgamation of two medieval halls, Hart Hall (founded 1282) and Magdalen Hall (founded 1448). We are therefore proud to claim as an alumnus the great philosopher Thomas Hobbes, born in 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, and who lived to become – alongside Descartes – one of the fathers of modern philosophy. Hobbes attended Magdalen Hall from 1603, and took his B.A. in 1608 (the same year that the telescope was invented, with momentous implications to follow in the hands of Galileo ...).