Professor Richard Pettigrew appointed Wykeham Professor of Logic

New College is pleased to announce that Professor Richard Pettigrew has been appointed as the Wykeham Professor of Logic. 

Professor Pettigrew works on questions across a range of philosophical subfields, including epistemology, formal epistemology, decision theory, logic, philosophy of math, and ethics. He is the author of several books, including the recent Choosing for Changing Selves (2020), Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality (2022), and Opinion Pooling (with Lee Elkin) (2025). 

He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Bristol University, until he takes up his position in Oxford this coming October. 

The Wykeham Professorship in Logic was established in 1859, although it was not known as the Wykeham chair until later. This New College-based chair requires that its recipient undertakes research and teaching in Philosophy with special regard to the Problems, Theories, and History of Logic.