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.

When I'm not philosophising, I enjoy swimming and trying to play the clawhammer banjo — I usually do these things indoors, but I prefer to do both by a cloudy scottish loch. I grew up in Shotton Colliery, County Durham.

Pure shame is the realisation of myself in this degraded, fixed and dependent being which I am for the other (in this instance, Matthew Chrisman):

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Papers

• 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).

I also have papers on friendship, joint attention, and the desire for esteem which are currently under review. Please feel free to get in touch if you'd like to read a draft.

Wisconsin

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 Module

I also have experience of supervising both undergraduate and masters dissertations in ethics, moral psychology,epistemology and the philosophy of technology.