Responsibilities

Teaching

• Ethics and Social Philosophy (Year 1)
• Philosophy of the Body (Year 3)
• Bergson and Neo-vitalist Thought (MA)

Background

Research Interests

• Philosophical conceptions of normal/pathological life

• Evolutionary theory and process philosophy

• Critical animal studies

• The critique and reconfiguration of metaphysics in nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, with particular reference to works by Bergson, Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty, Canguilhem, Deleuze and Foucault

Affiliations

Member of the Society for European Philosophy, Executive Committee

Publications

Book

Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences (Edinburgh University Press: forthcoming, 2014)

Articles

'Life as Method: The Invention of Problems in Deleuze's Bergsonism' in Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism, ed. P. Ardoin, S. Gontarski, L. Mattison (Continuum/Bloomsbury: forthcoming, 2014)

‘The Idea of Will and Organic Evolution in Bergson’s Philosophy of Life’ in Continental Philosophy Review, Volume 46, Issue 1 (2013), pp. 57-74

‘Two Natures: Whitehead on Bergsonism, Dualism and Becoming-Subject’ in Process Studies, 36.2 (2007), pp. 245-271.

‘Bergson, Kant, and the Evolution of Metaphysics’ in Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Volume 15 (2004), pp. 103-124.

Book Reviews

'Leonard Lawlor, The Challenge of Bergsonism', in The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Volume 35, Number 3 (2004), pp. 320-322

‘Gilles Deleuze and Clare Parnet, Dialogues II’, in Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Volume 14 (2003), pp. 191-192.

Edited Volumes

(With Darren Ambrose) Diagrams of Sensation: Deleuze and Aesthetics – Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Volume 16 (2005).

Lives of the Real: Bergsonian Perspectives – Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Volume 15 (2004).