Faculty of Philosophy


Arif Ahmed



Portrait of Arif Ahmed Arif Ahmed has been lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy since 2004.


Selected Publications

  • ‘Evidential Decision Theory and Newcomb’s Problem’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56(2): 191-8
  • ‘Agency and Causation’ in H. Price and R. Corry (eds), Causation, Physics and the Constitution of Reality. OUP 2007
  • Saul Kripke. Continuum 2007
  • ‘Rigidity and Essentiality: Reply to Gomez-Torrente’ forthcoming in Mind 2008
  • ‘W. V. Quine’, forthcoming in C. Misak (ed.), Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. OUP 2008
  • Wittgenstein’s ‘Philosophical Investigations’: A Critical Guide (ed., forthcomig). CUP 2009

Lecture Handouts

Part IA

Sets, Relations and Probability
Lecture 1 , Lecture 2 , Lecture 3 , Lecture 4 , Lecture 5 , Lecture 6 , Lecture 7 , Lecture 8

Mind and Matter Lecture
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture4

Time Lecture
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4

Part IB

Berkeley Lecture
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4

Kripke on Names
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture4

Part II

Quine
Lecture 1 , Lecture 2 , Lecture 3 , Lecture 4 , Quine Glossary

Realism and Anti-Realism
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4

Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
Lecture 1 , Lecture 2 , Lecture 2a , Lecture 3 , Lecture 4 , Lecture 5 , Lecture 6 , Lecture 7 , Lecture 8 , Lecture 9 , Lecture 10 , Lecture 11 , Lecture 12 , Lecture 13 , Lecture 14 , Lecture 15 , Lecture 16

Causation Lecture
Lecture 1, Lecture 2 , Lecture 3 , Lecture 4

Knowledge Lecture
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4

Personal Identity Lecture
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4

Conditionals Lecture
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4

Tractatus Lecture
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Lecture 8


Contact Details

E-mail address:  ama24@cam.ac.uk
Girton College, Cambridge, CB3 0JG, UK