Profile

Career

Departmental roles

• Chair, Board of Studies of School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy

Research

Overview

Research interests

Moore, Russell and 20th century philosophy generally, including French and German philosophy; philosophy of language and of mind; bioethics.

Publications

Selected publications

Books

• Reading Merleau-Ponty, London: Routledge, 2007
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings, London: Routledge, 2003
• The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English since 1945 (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001)

Articles and chapters

• 'Rawls and Moral Psychology' in Oxford Studies in Metaethics 3 ed. R. Shafer-Landau, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008; pp. 247-270
• 'Presence, Truth and Authenticity' in Derrida’s Legacies eds. S. Glendinning & R. Eaglestone, Routledge, London 2008; pp. 107-17
• 'Causation, Perception and Reference' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society CVII (2007) pp. 1-26
• 'C. I. Lewis: pragmatism and analysis' in The Analytic Turn ed. M. Beaney, Routledge, London: 2007. pp. 178-95
• 'Ethics and Patents for Genetic Diagnostic Tests' in Gene Patents and Public Health, ed. G. van Overwalle, Etablissements Emile Bruylant, Brussells, 2007. pp. 45-60
• 'Speaking and Spoken Speech' in Reading Merleau-Ponty, ed. T. Baldwin, Routledge, London, 2007. pp. 87-103
• 'The Normative Character of Belief' in Moore’s Paradox, eds. M. Green & J. N. Williams, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007 pp. 76-89
• 'Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century', Oxford Handbook to Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006. 60-99
• 'Moore’s rejection of ethical naturalism' Revue de Métaphyique et de Morale 3 (2006), 291-311
• 'Keynes and ethics' in The Cambridge Companion to Keynes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006. 237-56
• 'The Indefinability of Good' The Journal of Value Inquiry 37 (2003) 313-328
• 'Perception and Agency' in Agency and Self-Awareness edd. N. Eilan & J. Roessler Oxford: Clarendon 2003, 188-200
• 'From Knowledge by Acquaintance to Knowledge by Causation' in Cambridge Companion to Russell ed. N. Griffin (Cambridge, 2002)
• 'The Three Phases of Intuitionism' in Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations ed. P. Stratton-Lake (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2002) 92-112
• 'Kantian Modality' Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXVI (2002) pp. 1 - 24
• 'On Considering a Possible world as Actual' Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXV (2001) pp. 157-174

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Ethics
• Political Philosophy
• Continental Philosophy

Postgraduate

• Metaphysics

External activities

Editorial duties

• Editor, Mind