Profile

Mark Walker taught at the American University in Cairo, the University of Keele and Thames Polytechnic, before joining the Department at Birmingham in 1991. His principal teaching and research interests include the philosophy of mind, (particularly the nature of judgement and deliberation and the theory of action); free will; Kant's moral philosophy; ethics; the philosophies of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; Spinoza; some areas of metaphysics (especially the theory of universals).

Research Interests

Select Publications

• `The Freedom of Judgment', International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol.11,no.1, March 2003.
  
• `A Problem for Causal Theories of Action' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2002.
  
• `Against One Form of Judgment Determinism', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, May 2001, Vol.9(2), pp. 199-227.
  
•  'Williams, Truth-Aimedness and the Voluntariness of Judgement', Ratio, March 2001, Vol. XIV, No.1, pp.68-83.
  
• 'The Voluntariness of Judgement: Reply to Stein', Inquiry 41, September 1998.