About
I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. I presently hold an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship in support of a project titled, Sympathy in Harmony: Margaret Cavendish's Philosophy of Value.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Aesthetics
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy of Language
Current research
The aim of the second (non-historical) project is to develop and defend a comprehensive theory of aesthetic reasons.
Research projects
Completed projects
Publications
Pagination
Teaching
In recent years, I have taught modules in aesthetics, the history of philosophy (especially early modern), epistemology, and philosophy of language.
Biography
I am on the trustees committee for the British Society of Aesthetics, the scientific board of the British Society for the Theory of Knowledge, and on the editorial board of the multidisciplinary open access journal, Margaret Cavendish. From 2018-2023, I was the Director of the Mind Association. 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.