Contact Details

Telephone

work +44 (0)1224 272367

Email

s.b.lord@abdn.ac.uk

Address

The University of Aberdeen 50-52 College Bounds, room CB505
Mailing address:
University of Aberdeen
School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
50-52 College Bounds
Aberdeen
AB24 3UB

Web Links

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9068-0887

My webpage on Academia.edu

Spinoza Research Network

Equalities of Wellbeing in Philosophy and Architecture

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 University of Aberdeen in January 2013, where I am currently Head of Philosophy.

I am the author of Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze and Spinoza's Ethics: an Edinburgh Philosophical Guide.

I am the editor of Spinoza's Philosophy of Ratio and Spinoza Beyond Philosophy, and co-editor of the Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy.

I am on the executive board of the Society for European Philosophy and the management committee of the British Society for the History of Philosophy.

Research Interests

I work primarily on the history of philosophy, particularly Spinoza and Kant, and its relationship to recent continental philosophy.

I am currently working on a monograph on Spinoza and equality, based on research undertaken in the AHRC project Equalities of Wellbeing in Philosophy and Architecture for which I was Principal Investigator (2013-16). The project focused on the connection between Spinoza's concept of equality and architectural theory, drawing on a shared notion of proportion. Our aim was to investigate this distinctive way of thinking about equality, and to consider how it can affect the wellbeing of individuals and communities through the built environment. An edited book based on the project, Spinoza's Philosophy of Ratio, was published by Edinburgh University Press (2018).

I am director of the Spinoza Research Network, an interdisciplinary group of over 200 Spinoza researchers worldwide. I also do occasional interdisciplinary research on philosophy and museums.

Research Grants

2013-16: AHRC Standard Research Grant for Equalities of Wellbeing in Philosophy and Architecture

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

Admin Responsibilities

Head of Discipline (Philosophy)

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

Publications 

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