Profile

Career

	Lecturer	University of York
	PhD	Durham University
	MA	University of Sussex
	BA	Leeds Metropolitan University

Departmental roles

• Chair of Board of Examiners for Undergraduate Programmes
• Erasmus Coordinator

Research

Overview

Research interests

Post-Kantian idealism, especially Fichte and Hegel. Contemporary Critical Theory. Phenomenology. Aesthetics, ethics and political philosophy.

Current projects

I am currently developing a 'republican' interpretation of Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right. I claim that this interpretation explains a feature of the Foundations that several commentators consider to be problematic - its emphasis on 'coercion'.

Publications

Selected publications

• 'Hegel's Critique of Fichte in the 1802/3 Essay on Natural Right'. Inquiry 54 (3): 207-225, 2011.
• 'Rousseau, Recognition and Self-Love'. Inquiry 52 (6): 636-651, 2009. (A review article on Neuhouser's Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love.)
• 'Fichte and Hegel on Recognition'. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (2): 365-385, 2009.
• 'Review of Nicholas Dent, Rousseau'. [REVIEW] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (10).
• 'Fichte' and 'Hegel in Cooper, D. & Palmer, J. Fifty Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey, London: Routledge, 2001

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy.
• Philosophy and Tragedy
• Kantian Ethics
• Hegel's Social Philosophy.

Postgraduate

• Phenomenology of Art