About me
I work on philosophical aesthetics and the place of metaphysics in post-Kantian thought. My (2021) book Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances examined how the sense of agitation and hallucination so emblematic of the seventeenth-century sensibility serves both to situate and to orient our thinking in a complex world.
In more general terms, my research charts certain developments within the history of ideas. I’m interested to see how classical problems such as the ‘mind/body’ relationship or the ‘organisation of matter’ have previously been understood – and the ways in which an ongoing consideration of them might yet inform our understanding of the nature of experience. My current work is oriented by the rethinking of ontology by logology following Barbara Cassin.
Before starting work at Murdoch, I held a range of sessional teaching roles following the completion of my PhD (Dundee) under the UK’s Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme.
I work with collaborators in cognate fields, within and beyond the University, and am the co-editor of a book series on Process Philosophy. Alongside a number of postgraduate supervision projects, I coordinate the following undergraduate classes
PHL131 Critical Thinking: How to Win Argument
PHL208 Is the World Real? (And How Could We Really Know, Anyway?)
PHL213 The Meaning of Life
PHL222 Science, Knowledge and Misinformation
PHL301 Love, Sex and Friendship