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Dr Leigh Clayton

Dr Leigh Clayton

 

 

leigh.clayton@abdn.ac.uk

Dr Leigh Clayton has been teaching for philosophy for sixteen years and received her PhD, Authentic Heroes: Existentialism and Film Noir, from the University of Aberdeen in 1998. Her research interests include the history and philosophy of the self, the philosophy of myth, and the philosophy of film. She is particularly interested in the work of Goodman, Levinas, Emerson, and Cassirer.

 

Papers

"Are there virtual communities?"

Ends and Means: Journal of the University of Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy, Technology and Society Vol. 2 no. 1 Autumn 1997

"The Absent Signifier: Historical Narrative and The Abstract Subject"

Linguistic Representations of the Subject Editions Rodopi August 1996.

Reviews

The Genealogy of Knowledge: Analytical Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science By Stephen Gaukroger Ashgate, 1998

Philosophical Books Vol 41 October 2000 Pgs 282 -283

Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment

Edited by Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston and Leo Marx

University of Massachusetts Press, 2000

British Journal for the History of Science Vol 37 Issue 04 December 2004 Pgs 490 -491

Unpublished conference papers

1994   The Virtual Universe: Visual Metaphors and The Non-Visible Virtual Futures Conference University of Warwick

1995   Surgery and The Body of Metaphor. Changing Organisms: Organisms and Change University of Aberdeen

1996   Blakean Imagery in the Films of Abel Ferrara Film/Culture/History Conference University of Aberdeen


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