Dorothy Edgington is a philosopher active in metaphysics and philosophical logic. She will step down in 2006 from her position as Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Before moving to Oxford Edgington taught for many years at Birkbeck College London. She is especially well known for her work on the logic of conditionals and vagueness. Plato and Aristotle, by Raphael (Sistine Chapel, Rome). ... Philosophical logic is the study of the more specifically philosophical aspects of logic. ... Magdalen College, Oxford endows four professorial fellowships named in honour of the college founder William of Waynflete, who had a great interest in science. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Articles

• The Paradox of Knowability (1985), Mind 94:557-568. Presents a resolution of Fitch's paradox based on situation semantics.
• On Conditionals (1985), Mind 104:235-329. Defends an epistemic theory of conditionals against a truth-functional one, as part of the Mind's state of the art series.
• Conditionals (2006), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. See http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/entries/conditionals.