13 Facts About Peter Hacker

Peter Michael Stephan Hacker was born on 15 July 1939 and is a British philosopher.

Peter Hacker is known for his detailed exegesis and interpretation of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, his critique of cognitive neuroscience, and for his comprehensive studies of human nature.

Since 1966 Peter Hacker has been a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and a member of the Oxford University philosophy faculty.

Peter Hacker's visiting positions at other universities include Makerere College, Uganda ; Swarthmore College, US ; University of Michigan, ; Milton C Scott visiting professor at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada ; visiting fellow in humanities at University of Bologna, Italy.

Peter Hacker retired from Oxford in 2006, and was appointed to an emeritus research fellowship from 2006 to 2015, since when he has been an emeritus fellow.

Peter Hacker was made an honorary fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, in 2010.

Peter Hacker was a part-time professor of philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury from 2013 to 2016.

Peter Hacker argues that these are indeed problems, only not empirical ones.

Peter Hacker rejects mind-brain identity theories, as well as functionalism, eliminativism and other forms of reductionism.

Peter Hacker denies that psychological attributes can be intelligibly ascribed to the brain, insisting that they are ascribable only to the human being as a whole.

Peter Hacker has endeavoured to show that the puzzles and 'mysteries' of consciousness dissolve under careful analysis of the various forms of intransitive and transitive consciousness, and that so-called qualia are no more than a philosopher's fiction.

Since 2005 Peter Hacker has completed an ambitious tetralogy on human nature.

Peter Hacker's methodology is connective analysis in which the wide range of conceptual and logical features of the relevant subjects is laid bare.