About
I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. I presently hold an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship in support of a project titled, Sympathy in Harmony: Margaret Cavendish's Philosophy of Value.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Aesthetics
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy of Language
Current research
The aim of the second (non-historical) project is to develop and defend a comprehensive theory of aesthetic reasons.
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Pagination
Teaching
In recent years, I have taught modules in aesthetics, the history of philosophy (especially early modern), epistemology, and philosophy of language.
Biography
I am presently on the scientific board of the British Society for the Theory of Knowledge and on the editorial board of the multidisciplinary open access journal, Margaret Cavendish. From 2018-2023, I was the Director of the Mind Association. From 2016-2019, I was Head of Department. In 2015, I spent the autumn semester as a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Before joining Southampton in 2007, I studied and then held a lectureship at the University of Reading. Long before that, I grew up on the north coast of Cornwall.
I now live by the beach in Pokesdown (in Boscombe (in Bournemouth)). I am married to Hayley, the Heritage Archive and Research Manager for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. We have two sons - Elliot and Stanley.