Dr Beth Lord
Senior Lecturer
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272367 |
| E-mail: | s.b.lord@abdn.ac.uk |
| Personal website: | My webpage on Academia.edu Spinoza Research Network |
| Address: | Old Brewery room G12 Mailing address: University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History and Philosophy Department of Philosophy Old Brewery Aberdeen AB24 3UB |
Biography
I obtained my PhD from the University of Warwick in 2004. From 2004 to 2012 I worked in the Philosophy Department at the University of Dundee. I joined the Aberdeen Philosophy Department in January 2013.
Research Interests
I work primarily on the history of philosophy, particularly Spinoza and Kant, and its relationship to recent continental philosophy.
I am director of the Spinoza Research Network, an interdisciplinary group of over 200 Spinoza researchers worldwide. Starting in 2013 I will be Principal Investigator for "Equalities of Wellbeing in Philosophy and Architecture", a 3-year AHRC-funded interdisciplinary project on Spinoza's concept of proportion.
I also do interdisciplinary research on philosophy and museums: I currently hold a research fellowship with the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research at the Natural History Museum, London.
Research Grants
2012-13: Research Fellowship with the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research at the Natural History Museum, London
2008-10: AHRC Networks Grant for the Spinoza Research Network
Media
Interview on New APPS blog
"Spinoza" episode on Ideas, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2012
“Spinoza’s Atheist God”, interview on The Philosophers’ Zone, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2011
“Spinoza and the role of fictions in religion, law, and society”, public event on Spinoza’s Atheist God, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney; radio broadcast on Big Ideas, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2011
Upcoming talks
"Deleuze and Kant's third Critique" at Kant and the Domains of Judgment, UWE Bristol, April 2013
Paper (TBA) at The Radical Enlightenment: the Big Picture and its Details, Free University of Brussels, May 2013
‘“A Sudden Surprise of the Soul”: Wonder in Museums and Early Modern Philosophy’ at Philosophy and Museums: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Ontology, University of Glasgow, July 2013
Publications
- Lord, B. Becoming cat, Book/Film/Article review, 2012, Radical Philosophy, 175
- Lord, B. Deleuze and Kant, Chapter, 2012, The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze, pp82 - 102
- Lord, B. Kant and Spinoza, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2012, The Continuum Companion to Kant, pp109 - 11
- Lord, B. Spinoza Beyond Philosophy, Book, 2012
- Lord, B. Spinoza on Human Freedom, Book/Film/Article review, 2012, The Philosophical Quarterly, 62, 246, pp206 - 8, ISSN/ISBN: 0031-8094
- Lord, B. Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: A Critical Guide, Book/Film/Article review, 2012, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 20, 3, pp636 - 9, ISSN/ISBN: 0960-8788
- Lord, B. What can we do with Spinoza?, Book/Film/Article review, 2012, Parallax, 18, 4, pp125 - 127, ISSN/ISBN: 1353-4645
- Lord, B. 'Disempowered by Nature', Article, 2011, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 19, 6, pp1085 - 1106, ISSN/ISBN: 0960-8788
- Lord, B. Between Imagination and Reason, Chapter, 2011, Inventions of the Imagination, pp36 - 53
- Lord, B. Kant and Spinozism, Book, 2011
- Lord, B. Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity, Book/Film/Article review, 2011, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 19, 2, pp339 - 342, ISSN/ISBN: 0960-8788
- Lord, B. Museum Origins, Book/Film/Article review, 2010, Museum Management and Curatorship, 25, 1, pp117 - 119, ISSN/ISBN: 0260-4779
- Lord, B. Spinoza's Ethics, Book, 2010
- Lord, B. Against the fanaticism of forces, Article, 2009, Parallax, 15, 2, pp53 - 68, ISSN/ISBN: 1353-4645
- Lord, B. Immanuel Kant, Chapter, 2009, Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, pp313 - 323
- Lord, B. Introduction, Chapter, 2009, The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, pp1 - 8
- Mullarkey, J. & Lord, B. The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, Book, 2009
- Lord, B. The Virtual and the Ether, Article, 2008, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 39, 2, pp147 - 166, ISSN/ISBN: 0007-1773
- Lord, B. From the Document to the Monument, Chapter, 2007, Museum Revolutions, pp355 - 366
- Lord, B. Foucault's Museum: Difference, Representation, and Genealogy, Article, 2006, Museum and Society, 4, 1, pp1 - 14
- Lord, B. Philosophy and the Museum: an Introduction, Article, 2006, Museum Management and Curatorship, 21, 2, ISSN/ISBN: 0260-4779
- Lord, B. & Tomlinson, J. Postmodernism and History, Book/Film/Article review, 2006, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 26, 1-2, pp121 - 31, ISSN/ISBN: 1748-538X
- Lord, B. Spinoza and Spinozism, Book/Film/Article review, 2006, The Philosophical Quarterly, 56, 224, pp450 - 2, ISSN/ISBN: 0031-8094
- Lord, B. & Jarron, M. Thinking about Museums: Philosophical Perspectives, Special issue, 2006, Museum Management and Curatorship, 21, 2, ISSN/ISBN: 0260-4779
- Lord, B. Representing Enlightenment Space, Chapter, 2005, Reshaping Museum Space, pp146 - 57
- Lord, B. Kant's Productive Ontology, Article, 2003, Pli: the Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 14, pp157 - 86