Arif Ahmed has been University Reader in Philosophy since October 2016.
Publications
Articles
- 2000. Hale on the necessity of necessity. Mind 109: 81-92.
- 2005. Evidential decision theory and medical Newcomb problems. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56: 191-98.
- 2007. Agency and causation. In R. Corry and H. Price (eds), Causation, Physics and the Constitution of Reality: Russell’s Republic Revisited. Oxford: OUP: pp. 120-55.
- 2008. W. V. Quine. In C. Misak (ed.), Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. Oxford: OUP: pp. 290-338.
- 2009. Rigidity and essentiality: Reply to Gomez-Torrente. Mind 118: 121-133.
- 2010. Causation and decision. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110: 111-131.
- 2010. Deductive inference and aspect perception. In A. Ahmed, ed., Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: pp. 197-217.
- 2011. Out of the closet. Analysis 71:77-85.
- 2011. Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In B. Lee, ed., Key Thinkers: Philosophy of Langauge. London: Continuum pp. 76-84.
- 2011. Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations. In B. Lee, ed., Key Thinkers: Philosophy of Language. London: Continuum pp. 121-37.
- 2011. Walters on conjunction conditionalization. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 111: 115-22.
- 2012. With Huw Price. Arntzenius on ‘Why ain’cha rich?’ Erkenntnis 77: 15-30
- 2012. Push the button. Philosophy of Science 79: 386-95. [preprint]
- 2013. From game-theoretical accounts of cooperation to meta-ethical choices. Studies in Christian Ethics 26: 176-83.
- 2013. Causal Decision Theory: a counterexample. Philosophical Review 122: 289-306.
- 2014. Causal decision theory and the fixity of the past. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65: 665-85.
- 2014. Dicing with death. Analysis 74: 587-92.
- 2014. With Adam Caulton. Causal decision theory and EPR correlations. Synthese 191: 4315-4352.
- 2015. Infallibility in the Newcomb problem. Erkenntnis 80: 261-73.
- 2015. Hume and the independent witnesses. Mind 124: 1013-44.
- 2016. Exploiting cyclic preference. Mind.
- 2017. Wittgenstein on seeing aspects. In H.-J. Glock and John Hyman, (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Wittgenstein. Oxford: Blackwell: 517-32.
- Forthcoming. Signaling systems and the Transcendental Deduction. In T. Goldschmidt and K. Pearce (ed.), Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Forthcoming. Psychological Newcomb Problems. In A. Ahmed, ed., Newcomb's Problem. Cambridge University Press.
- Forthcoming. Do miracles provide evidence for religious belief? In Peterson, M. L. and R. VanArragon (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Forthcoming. Self-control and hyperbolic discounting. In J. L. Bermudez (ed.) Self-Control & Rationality: Interdisciplinary Essays. Cambridge: CUP.
- Forthcoming (with Bernhard Salow). Don't look now. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Books
- 2007. Saul Kripke. London: Continuum
- 2010. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: a Reader’s guide. London: Continuum.
- 2010. (Ed.) Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2014. Evidence, Decision and Causality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Under contract (ed.). Classic Philosophical Arguments: Newcomb's Problem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Forthcoming. The value of the Future. Princeton: Princeton UP.
Reviews etc.
- 2002. On Quine. Richmond Journal of Philosophy 2: 29-34.
- 2006. Review of M. de Gaynesford: John McDowell; T. Thornton: John McDowell. Mind 115: 403-9.
- 2009. Review of D. Pears: Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy. Mind 117: 200-3.
- 2010. Introduction to A. Ahmed (ed.) Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 1-10.
- 2012. Review of B. Hale and Aviv Hoffman, ed., Modality: Metaphysics, Logic and Epistemology. Mind 121: 817-822.
- 2013. Il vero scoglio e la prova etica. In Il Sole 24 ore, 12 May 2013.
- 'Religious Belief'. Cambridge Philosophy Newsletter 2015.
- 'Hume on Miracles'. OUP Blog.
- 'Forthcoming. Review of L. Buchak, Risk and Rationality. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- Forthcoming. Kripke, Saul Aaron. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
- 2016. Review of B. Epstein, The Ant Trap. Times Literary Supplement, 29 April.
Interviews
Public debates and lectures
- Debate with William Lane Craig on belief in God
- Debate with Gary Habermas on the resurrection
- Debate with Glenn Peoples on the moral argument for God
- Debate with Andrew Copson, Peter Williams and William Lane Craig on religion
- Debate with Keith Ward on theistic and atheistic worldviews
- Debate with Richard Dawkins, Andrew Copson, Rowan Williams, Tariq Ramadan and Douglas Murray on religion
- Lecture: Is religion a force for good or evil?
- Debate with Tariq Ramadan on Islam and Morality
- Debate on agnosticism and atheism, 'Beyond belief', BBC Radio 4
- Debate on evidence and religion, 'The Big Questions', BBC1
- Debate on religion, University College Dublin.
- Debate on atheism and belief with Ayyaz Mahmood Khan.
Lecture Handouts
Part IA
Sets, Relations and Probability
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Worksheet 1, Worksheet 1 - selected answers, Worksheet 2, Worksheet 2 - Solutions to Section A
Personal Identity
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4
Part IB
Berkeley
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4
Kripke
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4
Part II
Quine
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Quine glossary
Rational Choice
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4
Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Lecture 8, Lecture 9, Lecture 10, Lecture 11, Lecture 12
Contact Details
E-mail address: ama24@cam.ac.uk
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TAK
