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. From September 2026 I will be an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College. I grew up in Shotton Colliery, County Durham.

Papers

• Naturalism and the Desire for Esteem, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (Draft).
• The Shared Life, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Forthcoming (Open Access).
• Is Joint Attention An Essentially Communicative Relation? Synthese . Open Access
• 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).