User:Susanne Bobzien

Susanne Bobzien is a German-born philosopher who currently holds a research professorship at Oxford University. She was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1960. She graduated in 1985 with an M.A. (Magister Artium) at Bonn University, and in 1993 with a doctorate in philosophy (D.Phil) at Oxford University. Bobzien is Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. From 2002 to 2010 she was Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. From 1993-2002 she had a tenured position at Oxford University. From 1990-2002, she was Fellow and Praelector in Philosophy at The Queen's College, where she was the first woman to be appointed a tutorial fellow. Before that she was Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Balliol College. Among her awards are a British Academy Research Readership (2000-2002), and a Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2008-9) and a Senior Research Scholarship at Yale in 2010. Bobzien has published several books and numerous articles in leading academic journals and collections. Her main area in contemporary philosophy is philosophy of logic and language with specialization in theories of vagueness and paradox. In 2013 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.