Background
Helen Steward was born in 1965 in Chester, United Kingdom. She is a daughter of Ernest and Catherine Steward. Helen has a sister.
Oxford University, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
In 1986 Helen Steward received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University, a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992.
Oxford University, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
In 1986 Helen Steward received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University, a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992.
(Helen Steward puts forward a radical critique of the foun...)
Helen Steward puts forward a radical critique of the foundations of contemporary philosophy of mind, arguing that it relies too heavily on insecure assumptions about the sorts of things there are in the mind--events, processes, and states. She offers a fresh investigation of these three categories, clarifying the distinctions between them, and argues that the category of state has been very widely and seriously misunderstood.
https://www.amazon.com/Ontology-Mind-Processes-Philosophical-Monographs/dp/0198250649/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(This collection of original essays by leading philosopher...)
This collection of original essays by leading philosophers covers the entire range of the philosophy of action.
https://www.amazon.com/Agency-Action-Institute-Philosophy-Supplements/dp/0521603560/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and n...)
A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism. For determinism is threatened just as surely by the existence of powers which can be unproblematically accorded to many sorts of animals, as by the distinctively human powers on which the free will debate has tended to focus. Helen Steward suggests that a tendency to approach the question of free will solely through the issue of moral responsibility has obscured the fact that there is a quite different route to incompatibilism, based on the idea that animal agents above a certain level of complexity possess a range of distinctive 'two-way' powers, not found in simpler substances. Determinism is not a doctrine of physics, but of metaphysics; and the idea that it is physics which will tell us whether our world is deterministic or not presupposes what must not be taken for granted-that is, that physics settles everything else, and that we are already in a position to say that there could be no irreducibly top-down forms of causal influence.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199552053/?tag=2022091-20
2012
Helen Steward was born in 1965 in Chester, United Kingdom. She is a daughter of Ernest and Catherine Steward. Helen has a sister.
In 1986 Helen Steward received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University, a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992.
In 2007 Helen Steward joined the University of Leeds in 2007. She also was a professor of philosophy at Oxford University’s Balliol College. From 2014 to 2016, Steward was the holder of an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, working on a project entitled "Persons as Animals: Understanding the Animal Bases of Agency, Perceptual Knowledge and Thought".
She is the author of two books The Ontology of Mind: Events, Processes and States and A Metaphysics for Freedom. In February 2015 she was awarded a Research Leadership Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
(Helen Steward puts forward a radical critique of the foun...)
1997(A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and n...)
2012(This collection of original essays by leading philosopher...)
2004Helen Steward once told that Aristotle, Wittgenstein and Brian O’Shaughnessy continue to inspire her.
Helen Steward is a member of the British Philosophical Association and Mind Association.
Helen Steward is married and has two children: Rosa and Joe.
