Peter Hacker

Peter Hacker was born in London in 1939. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at The Queen's College, Oxford from 1960-63, obtaining a Congratulatory First Class degree. He was elected to a graduate studentship at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he remained from 1963-65, writing a doctoral dissertation under the supervision of H. L. A. Hart on the subject of 'Rules and Duties'. In 1965 he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College. In 1966 he completed his doctorate and was granted the D.Phil.

He was elected to a Tutorial Fellowship at St John's College in 1966 a post he held until his retirement in 2006, when he was appointed to an Emeritus Research Fellowship at St John's from 2006-2015. He was College Librarian 1986-2006, and Keeper of the College Pictures 1986-1998. In 2010 he was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at The Queen's College, Oxford.

He was a visiting lecturer at Makere College, Uganda (1968) , a visiting professor at Swarthmore College, Pa., U.S.A (1973) and again in 1986, a visiting professor at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, U.S.A. (1974), a Milton C. Scott Visiting Professor, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1984).  He was elected to a British Academy Research Readership in Humanities 1985-7.  He was elected to a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (1991-4). From 1992 to 2010 he served as a member of the Rothschild Fellowships Academic Committee, Yad Hanadiv, Jerusalem. He was a visiting fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, Italy in 2006. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Bologna for a semester in 2009.  In 2013 he was appointed part time Professor of philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury for three years. He has been elected to an honorary professorship at University College, London in the UCL Institute of Neurology for the period 2019-24.

For more information about Peter Hacker's research, one can visit his personal website: http://www.pmshacker.co.uk.

Recent Publications:

Peter M.S. Hacker, Solving, Resolving, and Dissolving Philosophical Problems: Essays in Connective, Contrastive and Contextual Analysis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2025)

Peter M. S. Hacker and Maxwell R. Bennett, The Representational Fallacy in Neuroscience and Psychology: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024)

Peter M.S. Hacker, A Beginner's Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein: Seventeen Lectures and Dialogues on the Philosophical Investigations (Anthem Press, 2024)

Peter M. S. Hacker and Maxwell R. Bennett, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, 2nd edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022)

Peter M.S. Hacker, The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021)

Peter M.S. Hacker, Intellectual Entertainments: Eight Dialogues on Mind, Consciousness and Thought (Anthem Press, 2019)

A full list of Peter Hacker's publications can be found on his personal website: https://www.pmshacker.co.uk/books