Matthew Boyle

Matthew Boyle is Emerson and Grace Wineland Pugh Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago.  He works on topics in the philosophy of mind, especially self-knowledge, the nature of rationality, and some questions about the role of rationality in perception and action.  He also writes on topics in the history of philosophy, with a particular focus on the works of Immanuel Kant, although he also has interests in a variety of other figures, including Aristotle, Aquinas, Fichte, Hegel, and Sartre.  He is the author of Transparency and Reflection: A Study of Self-Knowledge and the Nature of Mind  (Oxford University Press, 2024) and the editor of Reason and Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell (Harvard University Press, 2022).  A list of his articles is available on his PhilPapers page.

Before moving to the University of Chicago in 2016, Boyle was Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.  He has held visiting positions at the Universität Leipzig, Germany, and the Universität Basel, Switzerland.  He has been the recipient of a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a Rhodes Scholarship.  He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and a BPhil from Oxford University.