Research interests
The later Wittgenstein (particularly On Certainty).
Philosophy of mind and embodied subjectivity.
Phenomenology (broadly construed).
Philosophy of higher education.
Recent Publications
(a) ‘Dredging and Sedimentation: Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Conceptual Change’, Journal of Philosophy of Education (forthcoming, 2019). SJR 0.655
(b) ‘Karl Jaspers: Truth, Academic Freedom and Student Autonomy’, in Ron Barnett (UCL) and Amanda Fulford (Leeds Trinity) (eds.), Philosophers on the University (Singapore: Springer - forthcoming, 2019).
(c) ‘The Existential Situation of the Patient: Well-being and Absence’, in Kathleen Galvin (Brighton) (ed.), Routledge Handbook on Well-being (London & New York: Routledge, 2018), pp.133-140. ISBN 978-1-138-85010-1.
(d) ‘A Spontaneous Following: Wittgenstein, Education and the Limits of Trust’, in Michael A. Peters (Waikato) & Jeff Stickney (Toronto) (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education: Pedagogical Investigations (Singapore: Springer, 2017), pp.161-177. ISBN 978-981-10-3134-2.
(e) An Introduction to Metaphilosophy (with Søren Overgaard & Paul Gilbert) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), vii + pp.245. ISBN 978-0-521-19341-2. (Korean edition, 2014. ISBN 978-89-98739-18-8.)
Postgraduate supervision
I am happy to consider supervision in a range of philosophical topics, as well as those with an interdisciplinary theme, and not just those directly related to my own research interests.
Current Research Students and Topics
(a)Blessing Chapfika, 'Toward an African Philosophy of Education.'
(b)Rebecca Daley, 'The Moral Self and Nurse Education.'
(c)Michael Simmons, 'Wittgenstein, Folk-psychology, and Religious Belief.'
(d) Sasha Wrzosek, 'Kinaesthesia and Somatic Practices in the Philosophy of Mind and Body.'
Former Research Students and Topics
(a)Sarah Warriner, 'An Existential Phenomenology of Eating Disorders in Older People: An Ontological Reflection and Analysis.'
(b)Anthony Okpanachi, 'Karl Popper's Philosophy and the Possibility of an African Approach to Science.'
(c)Thomas Feldges, 'Cognitive Science and Phenomenology: Varella's "New Science of Consciousness" at the System-theoretical Crossroads.'
(d)Paul Fagan, 'Who Owns Renewable Energy? An Argument for Independent Ownership.'
(e)Joshua Gray, 'Wittgenstein on Subjectivity: A Phenomenological Interpretation.'