Anil Gomes

At Trinity, I teach a number of papers for all the joint degrees involving philosophy (PPE, Philosophy and Theology, Philosophy and Modern Languages, and Classics). These include General Philosophy for the preliminary examinations and Ethics, Knowledge and Reality, Early Modern Philosophy, the Philosophy of Mind, and the Philosophy of Kant for the final examinations. In the Faculty I provide the undergraduate lectures for the Philosophy of Kant and teach a graduate seminar whose recent topics have included self-consciousness, Kant, and self-knowledge. I supervise graduate students on the BPhil and DPhil, primarily on topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of Kant but on other topics besides.

I particularly welcome applications from students at non-selective state schools and colleges which may not have a tradition of students applying to Oxford.

My main research interests cluster around a set of topics in the philosophy of mind and often draw on figures in the history of philosophy. My book The Practical Self  (Oxford University Press, 2024) argues that self-conscious subjects are required to have faith in themselves as the agents of their thinking and that this faith is sustained by practices which relates us to an objective world. An extract from the book was published by The Raven. The book was supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

I have written for The Guardian, the TLS, and the London Review of Books. You can hear me on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time talking about Kant's Copernican Revolution, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot. And you can listen to an interview with me on the 5 Questions podcast.

More information can be found on my website: https://www.anilgomes.com/.

The Practical Self. Oxford University Press, 2024.

The Oxford Handbook of Kant. Edited with Andrew Stephenson. Forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: Perception, Reason, and the Self. Edited with A. Stephenson. Oxford University Press, 2017