About
Andrew is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. His work focuses on Kant and related topics in contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logic, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine-Learning. He is particularly interested in the nature of mental activity, mental representation, and imagination, in the relation between anti-realism and transcendental idealism, and in modality and the epistemology of modality—and he thinks all these things are connected.
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Research
Research interests
- Kant
- Contemporary Kantian Philosophy
- Mind
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
Current research
Andrew's work focuses on Kant and related topics in contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logic, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine-Learning. He is particularly interested in the nature of mental activity, mental representation, and imagination, in the relation between anti-realism and transcendental idealism, and in modality and the epistemology of modality—and he thinks all these things are connected.
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Teaching
Kant
Islamic Philosophy
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Biography
Andrew grew up in Yorkshire and spent a year at music college before discovering philosophy and taking his first degree at Cardiff University. He moved to Merton College, Oxford for his graduate studies (B.Phil. and D.Phil.) and was awarded the doctorate in 2013. Before joining Southampton in 2017, he held a teaching position at Trinity College, Oxford and research positions at Humboldt University, Berlin and Aarhus University, Denmark. He has since held Visiting Research Fellowships at the Human Abilities Centre for Adavance Studies in the Humanities in Berlin and at the Research Centre for Analytic German Idealism in Leipzig.
Prizes
- North American Kant Society Wilfrid Sellars Prize (2020)
- Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2020)
- Most Engaging Lecturer (2020)
- Visiting Fellowship at the Human Abilities KFG (2020)
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