About
I am a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. In my work I hope to come to a deeper understanding of our nature as social animals and its significance for a variety of areas of philosophy. I completed my PhD at UCL in 2020 under the supervision of Lucy O’Brien and Doug Lavin. I grew up in Shotton Colliery, County Durham.
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Papers
• Naturalism and the Desire for Esteem, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (Draft). • Is Joint Attention An Essentially Communicative Relation? Synthese (Draft). • Interpersonal Connection (2024) Mind and Language 39 (2): 162-178 (Open Access). • The Harm of Humiliation (2024) European Journal of Philosophy 32 (2): 532-547 (Open Access). • Ordinary Self-Consciousness as a Philosophical Problem (2022) European Journal of Philosophy , 30, 2. (Draft). • Making Sense of Shame (2022) Philosophy, 97, 2. (Draft). • When Eyes Touch (2021) Philosophers' Imprint, 21 , 9 (Open Access).
Teaching
As Primary Instructor
• Advanced Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science; Online MSc Module • Social Cognition; Third Year Undergraduate Module • Normative Theory; Third Year Undergraduate Module • Free Will and Moral Responsibility; Fourth Year Undergraduate Module • Consciousness, Agency, and the Self; MA & First Year PhD Module • Advanced Tutorials: Interpersonal Moral Psychology; Third Year Undergaduate Module
As Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
• Introduction to Moral Philosophy; First Year Undergraduate Module • Nietzsche; Second Year Undergraduate Module • Philosophy of Mind; Second Year Undergraduate module • Doubt, Passion and Justice: Hume's Treatise of Human Nature; Third Year Undergraduate Module • Epistemology of Disagreement; Third Year Undergraduate ModuleI also have experience of supervising both undergraduate and masters dissertations in ethics, moral psychology,feminist philosophy and the philosophy of technology.