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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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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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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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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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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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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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