Fields of Research

Phenomenology
Philosophical psychology (incl. moral psychology and philosophy of action)
Ethical theory
Ethical use of new technology
History of ideas
Social and political philosophy
Medical ethics
Aesthetics
Testing, assessment and psychometrics

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies
Expanding knowledge in psychology
Mental health
Expanding knowledge in the biomedical and clinical sciences
Technological ethics

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

A phenomenological grounding of feminist ethics; Journal of The British Society for Phenomenology
Does the reversibility thesis deliver all that Merleau-Ponty claims it can?; European Journal of Philosophy
Dynamical relations in the self-pattern; Frontiers in Psychology
Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World
Homelessness & the limits of hospitality; Philosophy Now
Interrogating lived experience; The Philosopher
Introduction; Perception and the Inhuman Gaze: Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences
Is theory fading away from reality? Examining the pathology rather than the technology to understand potential personality changes; AJOB Neuroscience
Is theory fading away from reality? Examining the pathology rather than the technology to understand potential personality changes; AJOB Neuroscience
Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity; Palgrave Macmillan
Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetic interworld: from primordial percipience to wild logos; Philosophy Today
Not suffering, not melancholy: Review of On Happiness: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century, edited by C Nelson, D Pike and G Ledvinka
Ontology and attention: addressing the challenge of the amoralist through Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and care ethics; Philosophies
Ontology and politics: interdependence and radical contingency in Merleau-Ponty's political interworld; Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and The Social Sciences
Perception and the Inhuman Gaze: Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences; Routledge
Philosophy, psychiatry and avoiding real mischief
Primary intersubjectivity: empathy, affective reversibility, ‘self-affection’ and the primordial ‘we’; Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy
Sentience and the primordial ‘we’: contributions to animal ethics from phenomenology and Buddhist philosophy; Environmental Values
The 'strange kinship' of interanimality: vision, visibility and lifeworlds in science and art; Captures: Animaux et Figurations Animales
The Inhuman Gaze and Perceptual Gestalts: The making and unmaking of others and worlds; Perception and the Inhuman Gaze: Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences
Towards a phenomenology of self-patterns in psychopathological diagnosis and therapy; Psychopathology

Research Projects

An investigation of the subjective bases of violence, destructiveness and ethical failure
The problem of the other in the work of Merleau-Ponty

Research Candidate Supervision