Paul Russell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he taught from 1987-2022.
He has also been an invited Assistant Professor at Virginia (1988), an invited Assistant Professor at Stanford (1989-1990), and an invited Associate Professor at Pittsburgh (1996-1997). In 2005 he was a Kenan Distinguished Visitor at the Univesity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He has held a Research Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1984-1987), a Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford (2010) and a Beaufort Visiting Fellowship St. John's College, Cambridge (2023). While at Stanf…
Paul Russell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he taught from 1987-2022.
He has also been an invited Assistant Professor at Virginia (1988), an invited Assistant Professor at Stanford (1989-1990), and an invited Associate Professor at Pittsburgh (1996-1997). In 2005 he was a Kenan Distinguished Visitor at the Univesity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He has held a Research Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1984-1987), a Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford (2010) and a Beaufort Visiting Fellowship St. John's College, Cambridge (2023). While at Stanford he held a Mellon Fellowship (1989-1990).
From 2015-2025 he was Director of the Lund|Gothenburg Responsibility Project. During this time he held half-time positions in Sweden as Professor of Philosophy at Gothenburg (2015-2017) and Lund (2018-2025). These appointments were funded by a major grant ($8.5 million/80 million SEK) from the Swedish Research Council "for international recruitment of leading researchers".
Paul Russell is a founding member of the European Moral Responsibility Consortium:
https://emrconsortium.org/ . He has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the History of Philosophy and Hume Studies.
