Dr Fabian Pregel

Philosophy

Career Development Fellow in Philosophy

Qualifications

BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Oxford, 2009); MSc Econometrics & Mathematical Economics (London School of Economics, 2011); MA Philosophy (King's College London, 2019); DPhil Philosophy (University of Oxford, 2023)

Undergraduate teaching

I teach Introductory Logic, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language and Logic, Knowledge & Reality, Turing on Computability and Intelligence, and Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic.

Featured publications

'Reply to Sprenger's "A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence"' (2023), Philosophy of Science.

'Deductivism in the Philosophy of Mathematics' (with Alexander Paseau, 2023) in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

'Neo-Logicism and Gödelian Incompleteness' (2022), Mind, October. Winning article for the Mind Graduate Essay Prize.

Featured News

COLLEGE |

9 December 2024

Xiaolan Deng wins 2024 Bernard Williams Essay Prize

Xiaolan Deng, a second-year student of Computer Science and Philosophy at Christ Church, has been announced as this year’s winner of the Bernard Williams Essay Prize, awarded by the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. This year, the essay competition’s participants were asked to tackle the complex question: ‘Is AI a threat to human creativity?’