Carolyn Price MA (Oxon), BPhil (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer

Carolyn Price joined the department in February 2000, having spent eight years as a Lecturer and Tutor at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Her research interests lie in the Philosophy of Mind: she is particularly interested in developing an account of the mind that begins from the premise that the mind is a biological phenomenon. In 2001, she published Functions in Mind in which she set out a teleosemantic theory of content. Since then, she has moved on to work on two further issues: the source and nature of rational norms; and the nature and value of emotions and moods. She is currently working on a book on the emotions and the norms by which we judge them.

Carolyn is Co-Director of the Department’s Mind Meaning and Rationality Group. She co-organised the group’s inaugural conference in 2004, and recently joined Keith Frankish in organising the conference In Two Minds: Dual Process of Reasoning and Rationality, which took place in Cambridge in July 2006. She is also convenor of the OU Ethics seminar series. This is a series of interdisciplinary seminars which draws together Open University researchers who are working on some aspect of ethics or value. She is currently helping to organise at conference on Death: What it is and Why It Matters, which will take place in York on 17th and 18th July 2008.

Carolyn led the production of AXR271 Doing Philosophy, a residential school course in Philosophy. She wrote the preliminary material for the Mind and Action strand, and continues to be involved in running the course. She was a member of the course team which produced AA308 Thought and Experience: Themes in the Philosophy of Mind, for which she wrote the course book Emotion. She is still involved in running the course. She has also contributed material to A850 The Postgraduate Foundation Module in Philosophy and AA311 Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill. She contributed an essay ‘Seneca: A philosophy of living’ to the course reader on A219 Exploring the Classical World. She is involved in running A103 An Introduction to the Humanities, and is currently contributing to the production of the Faculty’s new introductory course. She was Head of Department from February 2003 to February 2006.

Email: c.s.price@open.ac.uk

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