Profile

Career

2011 -	Lecturer	University of York
2008 - 2011	Lecturer	University of Leeds
2005 - 2008	Junior Research Fellow	Newnham College, Cambridge
2004 - 2005	Junior Research Fellow	Wolfson College, Cambridge
	PhD	University of Cambridge
	MPhIL	University of Cambridge
	DEA	Université de la Sorbonne, Paris
	MSc	University of Edinburgh
	MA	Université de la Sorbonne,Paris

Publications

Selected publications

Book

• Kant and the Human Science: Biology, Anthropology and History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
  

Edited volumes

• Kant on Emotions and Value (Palgrave, under preparation)
• Critical Guide to Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (CUP, under contract)
• Editor, ‘Kantian Philosophy and the Human Sciences’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 39(4), 2008.

Selected papers

• "Philosophy and History", Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, forthcoming
• "Kant's 'curious catalogue of human frailties': The Great Portrait of Nature", volume edited by S. Shell and R. Velkley on Kant's Observations, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press
• "Kant's Concept of Freedom and the Human Sciences", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 39 (1), 2009, pp.113-136
• "Physiological vs. Pragmatic Anthropology: A Response to Schleiermacher's Objection to Kant's Anthropology", Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants Akten des X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, vol. 5, 2008, pp. 3-14 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter)
• "Kant on Anthropology, Alienology and Physiognomy: The Opacity of Human Motivation and its Anthropological Implications", Kantian Review, 13:2, 2008, pp. 84-104
• "Kant's Answer to the Question 'What is Man?' and its Implications for Anthropology", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 39:4, 2008
• "The Ultimate Kantian Experience: Kant on Dinner Parties", History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 25:4, 2008, pp. 315-336
• "Kant's Biological Conception of History", Journal for the Philosophy of History, vol. 2, 2008, pp. 1-28
• "A Kantian Stance on Teleology in Biology", South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26(2), 2007, pp. 109-121
• "The Making of a Classic: The Reception of David Hume in Europe", New Essays on David Hume, ed. by E. Mazza and E. Ronchetti (Milan: Franco Angeli), 2007, pp. 457-468
• "Kant on Epigenesis, Monogenesis and Human Nature: The Biological Premises of Anthropology", Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 37(4), 2006, pp. 675-693
• "In Defence of Hume's Historical Method", British Journal of History of Philosophy, vol. 13, 2005, pp. 489-502
• "Kant's Antinomy of Reflective Judgment: A Re-evaluation", Teorema, vol. 23(1-3), 2004, pp. 183-197, winner of the 2004 Teorema Essay Prize
• "The notion of moral progress in Hume's moral philosophy", Hume Studies, vol. 25(1), 2000, pp. 109-128
• "La rêverie comme tentative de s'évader du monde des ob-jets", Études Jean-Jacques Rousseau, vol. 12, 2000, pp. 59-70
• "Le mal, funeste hasard ou tragique nécessité?", Études Jean-Jacques Rousseau, vol. 11, 1999, pp. 257-268

Research

Overview

Research interests

Kant, History of Modern Philosophy (in particular Rousseau and Hume), Emotion, Philosophy of social science

Current projects

Until December 2013, I will be based at the University of Neuchâtel as a Research Fellow of the Swiss National Foundation, working on a joint project entitled ‘Imagination, Emotion and Value’.

External activities

Editorial duties

• Associate editor (18th century / Kant) of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
• Member of the Standing Editorial Board of Oxford Bibliographies OnLine: Philosophy, OUP.

Societies and center responsibilities

• Executive members and treasurer of the British Society for the History of Philosophy.
• Newsletter editor of the UK Kant Society.
• Co-Director of CHiPhi, the Center for the History of Philosophy.