Profile

Career

Departmental roles

• Director of the First Year Programme
• Postgraduate Tutor Co-ordinator
• Member of the Departmental Teaching Committee

University roles

• Member of the University Health, Safety and Welfare Committee

Research

Overview

Research interests

At present I am interested in the philosophical implications of Darwinism, in philosophy of psychiatry, in philosophy of religion, and in questions regarding the nature and use of imagination.

Publications

Selected publications

• with Greg Currie: 'McGinn on delusion and imagination', Philosophical Books, 47 (4), October 2006
• 'Change blindness and counterfactual dependence', in Di Nucci, E.& McHugh, C. (eds.), Content, Consciousness, and Perception: Essays in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, July 2006
• 'I Never Heard No Horse Play Guitar', Postgraduate Journal Of Aesthetics, 2(2), August 2005 (online at www.british-aesthetics.org)

Teaching

Undergraduate

• First year undergraduate:
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Academic Skills for Philosophers
  • The Project Essay
• Second year undergraduate:
  • Knowledge and Reality Block 3: Scientific Knowledge
    
  • Knowledge and Reality Block 4: God
  • William James' Pragmatism