Dr Spencer Johnston

Spencer is our Director of Studies in Philosophy, and one of our Bye–Fellows. He is a Fellow of Hughes Hall, and their Deputy Senior Tutor.

Biography

Spencer studied for his first degree at Tyndale University College & Seminary in Canada, with honours in both Religious Studies and Philosophy, before completing his MSc in Logic at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam and his PhD at the University of St Andrews. He is Hughes Hall's postgraduate Director of Studies in both Philosophy and in Linguistics, and their disability champion. He is an honorary Research Associate in the University's Faculty of Philosophy.

Teaching

Spencer regularly lectures undergraduates on a range of topics related to logic for the Philosophy Faculty and the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics course. 

Research

His primary research area is the history and philosophy of logic, with a particular focus on modal and non–classical logics in the mediaeval period. He has broad interests in the historical interactions between logic, theology, and natural philosophy, as well as philosophy of language and the history of linguistics and is always happy to chat to students with interests in any of these areas.