Dr Beth Lord

Dr Beth Lord The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Senior Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 272367 pref s.b.lord@abdn.ac.uk My webpage on Academia.edu   Spinoza Research Network pref Old Brewery room G12 Mailing address: University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History and Philosophy Department of Philosophy Old Brewery Aberdeen AB24 3UB

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Upcoming talks

Respondent at Bodies in Movement seminar on the work of Catherine Malabou, Edinburgh, January 2013

"Deleuze and Kant's third Critique" at Kant and the Domains of Judgment, UWE Bristol, April 2013

Keynote paper at Philosophy and Museums: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Ontology, University of Glasgow, July 2013

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Publications

Books:

Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

Spinoza’s Ethics: an Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Indiana University Press, 2010)

 

Edited collections:

Spinoza Beyond Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

co-edited with John Mullarkey: The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy (London: Continuum, 2009); republished 2013 as The Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy

co-edited with Matthew Jarron: Thinking about Museums: Philosophical Perspectives, special issue of Museum Management and Curatorship 21:2 (June 2006)

 

Chapters and articles:

“Deleuze and Kant”, in Daniel Smith and Henry Somers-Hall (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

“Kant and Spinoza”, in Gary Banham et al (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Kant (London: Continuum, 2012)

“‘Disempowered by nature’: Spinoza on the political capabilities of women”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19:6 (2011), pp. 1085-1106

“Between Imagination and Reason: Kant and Spinoza on Fictions”, in Richard T. Gray et al. (eds.), Inventions of the Imagination: Romanticism and Beyond (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011), pp. 36-53

“Against the fanaticism of forces: Kant’s critique of Herder’s Spinozism.” Parallax 51, 15:2 (April-June 2009), pp. 53-68.

“The Virtual and the Ether: Transcendental Empiricism in Kant’s Opus Postumum”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 39:2 (2008), pp. 147-66.

“Kant”, in Michel Weber (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought (Ontos Verlag, 2008), pp. 313-23.

“From the Document to the Monument: Museums and the Philosophy of History”, in Simon Knell (ed.), Museum Revolutions (Routledge, 2007), pp. 355-66.

“Foucault’s Museum: Difference, Representation, and Genealogy”, Museum and Society 4:1 (2006),pp. 1-14.

“Representing Enlightenment Space”, in Suzanne MacLeod (ed), Reshaping Museum Space (Routledge, 2005), pp. 146-57.

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Lord, B. (2011). ''Disempowered by Nature': Spinoza on the political capabilities of women'. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol 19, no. 6, pp. 1085-1106.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2011.624704
• Lord, B. (2009). 'Against the fanaticism of forces: Kant's critique of Herder's Spinozism'. Parallax, vol 15, no. 2, pp. 53-68.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/13534640902793042
• Lord, B. (2008). 'The Virtual and the Ether: Transcendental Empiricism in Kant's Opus Postumum'. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol 39, no. 2, pp. 147-66.
• Lord, B. (2006). 'Philosophy and the Museum: an Introduction'. Museum Management and Curatorship, vol 21, no. 2.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09647770600102102
• Lord, B. (2006). 'Foucault's Museum: Difference, Representation, and Genealogy'. Museum and Society, vol 4, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
• Lord, B. (2003). 'Kant's Productive Ontology'. Pli: the Warwick Journal of Philosophy, vol 14, pp. 157-86.

Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

• Lord, B. (2012). 'Becoming cat'. Radical Philosophy, vol 175.
• Lord, B. (2012). 'What can we do with Spinoza?'. Parallax, vol 18, no. 4, pp. 125-127.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2012.715464
• Lord, B. (2012). 'Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: A Critical Guide'. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol 20, no. 3, pp. 636-9.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2012.686983
• Lord, B. (2012). 'Spinoza on Human Freedom'. The Philosophical Quarterly, vol 62, no. 246, pp. 206-8.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.00011.x
• Lord, B. (2011). 'Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity'. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol 19, no. 2, pp. 339-42.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2011.555165
• Lord, B. (2010). 'Museum Origins: Readings in early museum history and philosophy'. Museum Management and Curatorship, vol 25, no. 1, pp. 117-119.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09647770903529608
• Lord, B. (2006). 'Spinoza and Spinozism'. The Philosophical Quarterly, vol 56, no. 224, pp. 450-2.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2006.00453.x
• Lord, B. & Tomlinson, J. (2006). 'Postmodernism and History'. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, vol 26, no. 1-2, pp. 121-31.

Special Issues

• Lord, B. & Jarron, M. (eds) (2006). 'Thinking about Museums: Philosophical Perspectives'. Museum Management and Curatorship, vol 21, no. 2.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Lord, B. (2012). 'Deleuze and Kant'. D Smith & H Somers-Hall (eds), in: The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze. Cambridge University Press, pp. 82-102.
• Lord, B. (2011). 'Between Imagination and Reason: Kant and Spinoza on Fictions'. RT Gray, N Halmi, GJ Handwerk, MA Rosenthal & KA Vieweg (eds), in: Inventions of the Imagination: Romanticism and Beyond. University of Washington Press, Seattle, pp. 36-53.
• Lord, B. (2009). 'Introduction'. B Lord & J Mullarkey (eds), in: The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. Continuum, pp. 1-8.
• Lord, B. (2008). 'Immanuel Kant'. M Weber (ed.), in: Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought. Ontos, pp. 313-23.
• Lord, B. (2007). 'From the Document to the Monument: Museums and the Philosophy of History'. S Knell (ed.), in: Museum Revolutions: How museums change and are changed. 1 edn, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 355-366.
• Lord, B. (2005). 'Representing Enlightenment Space'. S MacLeod (ed.), in: Reshaping Museum Space. Routledge, pp. 146-57.

Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Lord, B. (2012). 'Kant and Spinoza'. G Banham (ed.), in: The Continuum Companion to Kant. Continuum, pp. 109-11.

Books and Reports

Books

• Lord, B. (ed.) (2012). 'Spinoza Beyond Philosophy'. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
• Lord, B. (2011). 'Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze'. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lord, B. (2010). 'Spinoza's Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide'. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
• Mullarkey, J. & Lord, B. (eds) (2009). 'The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy'. Bloomsbury Companions , Continuum, London.

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