Christopher S. Hill

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|era = 21st-century philosophy

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|name = Christopher S. Hill

|birth_date = 1942

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|school_tradition = Analytic

| institutions = Brown University

|main_interests = consciousness, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language

| thesis_title = On the Mysteries of Belief

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| thesis_year = 1973

| doctoral_advisor = Israel Scheffler, Hilary Putnam

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| education = Harvard University (Ph.D.)

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|awards = National Humanities Center Fellowship

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Christopher S. Hill (born 1942) is an American philosopher and William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.

He is known for his expertise on consciousness and philosophy of mind.{{cite journal |last1=Stoljar |first1=Daniel |title=Review of Consciousness |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |date=23 September 2010 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/consciousness/ |accessdate=21 October 2018 |issn=1538-1617}}{{cite journal |last1=Levin |first1=Janet |title=Review of New Perspectives on Type-Identity: The Mental and the Physical |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |date=30 August 2012 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/new-perspectives-on-type-identity-the-mental-and-the-physical/ |accessdate=21 October 2018 |issn=1538-1617}}{{cite journal |last1=Byrne |first1=Alex |title=Hill on mind |journal=Philosophical Studies |date=21 December 2015 |volume=173 |issue=3 |pages=831–839 |doi=10.1007/s11098-015-0613-z |language=en |issn=0031-8116|hdl=1721.1/103510 |hdl-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Brian P. |title=Hill on phenomenal consciousness |journal=Philosophical Studies |date=21 December 2015 |volume=173 |issue=3 |pages=851–860 |doi=10.1007/s11098-015-0614-y |language=en |issn=0031-8116}}

Career

Hill previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Michigan, the University of Arkansas, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He has held various fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a fellow at the National Humanities Center. Hill is a former editor of Philosophical Topics and a former associate editor of Noûs.{{cite web |title=Hill, Christopher |url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/cshill |website=vivo.brown.edu |accessdate=21 October 2018 |language=en}}