About
I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton and the Director of the Mind Association.
Research
Research interests
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Aesthetics
- Philosophy of Language
- History of Philosophy
Current research
I have published on a wide range of subjects in philosophy, including epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the history of philosophy. One theme which runs through much of this work is normativity - very roughly, the right and the good. Recent topics include: the nature of normative reasons; the distinction between subjective and objective reasons; the norms of belief, assertion, and practical reasoning; epistemic and motivational constraints on reasons; the distinction between first- and second-order reasons; normative testimony; epistemic value; aesthetic obligations; and epistemic justification.
Research projects
Completed projects
Sponsor: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Researchers:
Sponsor: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Publications
62 publications
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, 2022
, British Journal for the History of Philosophy
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, 2021
, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Type: article
, 2020
, Synthese
, 197 (8) , 3593--3609
Type: article
, 2020
, Ergo
, 7 (3) , 105--129
Type: article
, 2018
, Philosophical Studies
, 175 (9) , 2191--2208
Type: article
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Biography
From 2016-2019, I was Head of Department. In 2015, I spent the autumn semester as a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University. I am a founding member of the European Normativity Network. Before joining Southampton in 2007, I studied and then held a lectureship at the University of Reading. Long before that, I grew up on the north coast of Cornwall.
I now live by the beach in Pokesdown (in Boscombe (in Bournemouth)). I am married to Hayley, the Heritage Archive and Research Manager for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. We have two sons - Elliot and Stanley.