Susanne Bobzien is Professor of Philosophy, Em., at Oxford University and Visiting (Research) Fellow at Princeton University. From 2013-2023, she was Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, a position she resigned in the Fall of 2023 to take up a Visiting Professorship at Princeton in 2024, since for family reasons she had to return to the US. Previously, she was Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, and before that she had a permanent position as a tutorial fellow and CUF lecturer (now called associate professor) at Oxford. She works both in contemporary philosophy and in the histor…
Susanne Bobzien is Professor of Philosophy, Em., at Oxford University and Visiting (Research) Fellow at Princeton University. From 2013-2023, she was Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, a position she resigned in the Fall of 2023 to take up a Visiting Professorship at Princeton in 2024, since for family reasons she had to return to the US. Previously, she was Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, and before that she had a permanent position as a tutorial fellow and CUF lecturer (now called associate professor) at Oxford. She works both in contemporary philosophy and in the history of philosophy. Her main interests include: vagueness and paradoxes, ancient philosophy, logic and the history of logic, determinism, freedom & moral responsibility, and epistemology. She has also published on Kant's practical philosophy and has an interest in MAP. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science. She has been a member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 2008-9 and 2022-23 and Visiting Professor at Princeton, Berkeley, Bern University and Padua University, and was Senior Visiting Fellow and Research Scholar at Yale University. She has given named lectures and lecture series at UCL, University of London, University of Padua, Athens, Oxford, Berkeley and Rutgers. She was awarded a two-year British Academy Research Readership, a Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the IAS School of Historical Studies, the Hetty Goldman Fund, among others. Her best-known works include her acclaimed book Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy, her paper "The inadvertent conception and late birth of the free-will problem", her detailed reconstruction of Stoic syllogistic and sequent logic (1996, 2019), her introduction of the conceptions of columnar higher-order vagueness and borderline nestings in her theory of vagueness (2013, 2015, 2024), her co-authored paper "Stoic logic and multiple generality" and her much-discussed long essay "Frege plagiarized the Stoics" (2021).
