David S. Oderberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Reading. He completed his doctorate at Wolfson
College, Oxford, and became Lecturer in Philosophy at
Reading in 1992. He has written four books and edited or
co-edited five others, as well as being the author of over
sixty papers. His main research areas are metaphysics and
ethics, but he also works in philosophy of religion, philosophy
of science, and other areas. In 2013 he delivered
the Hourani Lectures in Ethics at the State University of
New York, Buffalo, and in 2003 was a Visiting Scholar at
the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green,
Ohio. Professor Oderberg is a Senior Fellow of the Higher
Education Academy, and in 2016 was named, by a major
US website for prospective college applicants, as one of the
fifty most influential living philosophers.