Academics

Welcome

Research Interests

• ethics, in particular moral psychology, neo-Aristotelianism and child development, ethical dimensions of psychoanalysis, meta-ethics
• Wittgenstein
• literature and philosophy
• Nietzsche's ethics
• philosophy of language

Recent Publications

• 'Truth and the 'work' of literary fiction' in British Journal of Aesthetics, 50 (2010), 93-7
• 'Action Explanation and the Unconscious' in A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, ed. T. O'Connor & C. Sandis (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
• 'Velleman on Love and Ideals of Rational Humanity' in Philosophical Quarterly, 59:235 (2009), 349-56
• 'Wittgenstein and Bodily Self-Knowledge' in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2008)
• 'Crisp’s “Ethics Without Reasons?”: A Note on Invariance' in Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4:1 (2007), 50-54
• 'Guilt, Shame, and the “Psychology of Love"' in The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis, ed. L. Braddock & M. Lacewing (London: Routledge, 2007)
• 'Nietzsche and Eudaemonism' in Nietzsche and Ethics, ed. G. von Tevenar (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007)
• 'Psychoanalysis' in Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, ed. A.C. Grayling et al. (London: Continuum, 2006)
• 'Quasi-Realism and Ethical Appearances' in Mind, ed. (2005)
• 'Instrumental Desires, Instrumental Rationality' in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2004)
• 'Wittgenstein and the "Whereabouts of Pain' in Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, ed. (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
• (ed.) Morality, Reflection, and Ideology (2000)
• 'The First Person: problems of sense and reference' in Logic, Cause and Action: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Anscombe, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• Frege on “I”, “now”, “today” and some other linguistic devices' in Synthese 121 (1999), 329-356
• Interpretationism, the First Person and “that”-clauses' in Nous 33 (1999), 459-472
• 'Integrity, Practical Deliberation and Utilitarianism' in Philosophical Quarterly (1998)
• 'Mill’s “Sanctions”, Internalization and the Self' in European Journal of Philosophy (1998)
• 'Are Hybrid Proper Names the Solution to the Completion Problem? A Reply to Wolfgang Künne' in Mind (1993)

Academic Biography

• University Lecturer (CUF) and Official Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Keble College, Oxford (2005 - present)
• Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Kent (2001 - 2005)
• Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Kent (1998 - 2001)
• Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (1996)
• Domus Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (1993 - 1998)