Dr Alex Oliver
Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
His rooms, Gonville and Caius College

Alex Oliver is a Reader in the Faculty of Philosophy and was a Mellon Fellow at Yale, after graduating from Clare College. His research interests include metaphysics, ethics and logic, with a particular interest in the logic of plurals.

Gonville and Caius College was founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville. In 1557, Dr John Caius refounded the College. It has about 750 undergraduate and graduate students, 100 Fellows and nearly 200 staff. Amongst the College’s many famous alumni are 11 Nobel laureates, Thomas Lynch a signatory to the American Declaration of Independence, Alastair Campbell the Director of Communications for Tony Blair and John Venn who invented Venn diagrams, the bane of many a schoolchild.