Dorothy Edgington

Dorothy Margaret Doig Edgington FBA (née Milne, born 29 April 1941) is a British philosopher active in metaphysics and philosophical logic. She is particularly known for her work on the logic of conditionals and vagueness.

Career Most of Edgington's career was spent at Birkbeck College. In 1968, her first academic post was as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, remaining there until 1996. From 1996 until 2001, she was appointed Fellow of University College, Oxford. This was followed by a professorship at Birkbeck from 2001 to 2003. She was then Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 2003 until 2006. Currently, she is a professor emeritus and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford who teaches at Birkbeck again

From 2004 to 2005, she was President of the Mind Association. Later, she became President of the Aristotelian Society from 2007 to 2008. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.

In 2023, she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.

Selected publications 'The Paradox of Knowability' (1985), Mind 94:557–568. Presents a resolution of Fitch's paradox based on situation semantics. 'On Conditionals' (1995), 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. 'Vagueness by Degrees'. In Rosanna Keefe & Peter Smith (eds.), Vagueness: A Reader. MIT Press (1997) 'Counterfactuals and the Benefit of Hindsight'. In Phil Dowe & Paul Noordhof (eds.), Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World. Routledge (2004) Conditionals (2006), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.