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14IntroductionIn Darian Meacham (ed.), Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, Springer Verlag. 2015.It usually falls to an introduction such as this to explain the what and the why of the volume: what is contained in the contributions and why it is important. In this instance the two are more or less the same. What distinguishes “continental” approaches to bioethics and philosophy of medicine is precisely the reason why there is value in highlighting such approaches. Before elaborating on that rather vague contention, I would first like to say something briefly about how this volume came about…Read more
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26The Institutional LifeIn Roland Breeur & Ullrich Melle (eds.), Life, Subjectivity, and Art: Essays in honor of Rudolf Bernet, Springer Science+business Media. 2012.Some ten years ago I read for the first time the passage from which this contribution draws its title. It marks, for me, something like the beginning of an obsession–but one that only takes me in circles, back to those lines, where I find comfort alongside a certain sense of futility in a passage that I know I will never fully unravel. In this futile return there is a feeling of coming home, but also of a continuous departure which most often leads down familiar paths–all of them leading back to…Read more
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33Resume: L’épigenèse transgénérationnelle, ou l’histoire spectraIe de la chairChiasmi International 9 94-94. 2007.
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43Empathy and Alteration: The Ethical Relevance of a Phenomenological Species ConceptJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 39 (5): 543-564. 2014.The debate over the ethics of radically, technologically altering the capacities and traditional form of the human body is rife with appeals to and dismissals of the importance of the integrity of the human species. Species-integrist arguments can be found in authors as varied as Annas, Fukuyama, Habermas, and Agar. However, the ethical salience of species integrity is widely contested by authors such as Buchanan, Daniels, Fenton, and Juengst. This article proposes a Phenomenological approach to…Read more
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497The Body at the FrontStudia Phaenomenologica 7 (n/a): 353-376. 2007.This paper investigates the relation in Patočka’s thought between the concepts of the “front” and the “solidarity of the shaken”, which we find in the Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, particularly the sixth essay, “Wars of the Twentieth Century and The Twentieth Century as War”, and the phenomenological analysis of corporeity that we find in Patočka’s work from the late sixties, namely, “The Natural World and Phenomenology” (1967). We argue for a reading of the “front” and the “sol…Read more
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30Introduction: Critiquing technologies of the mind: enhancement, alteration, and anthropotechnologyPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (1): 1-16. 2017.
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244Phenomenology and Naturalism: Editors' IntroductionRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 72 1-21. 2013.This is the editors' introduction to an edited volume devoted to the relation between phenomenology and naturalism across several philosophical domains, including: epistemology, metaphysics, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science and ethics.
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29The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Europe (edited book)Routledge. 2021.Understood historically, culturally, politically, geographically, or philosophically, the idea of Europe and notion of European identity conjure up as much controversy as consensus. The mapping of the relation between ideas of Europe and their philosophical articulation and contestation has never benefited from clear boundaries, and if it is to retain its relevance to the challenges now facing the world, it must become an evolving conceptual landscape of critical reflection. The Routledge Handbo…Read more
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22Riassunto: Epigenetica transgenerazionale, o la storia spettrale della carneChiasmi International 9 94-94. 2007.
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24European institutions?Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 47 (3): 226-241. 2016.ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to sketch a phenomenological theory of political institutions and to apply it to some objections and questions raised by Pierre Manent about the project of the European Union and more specifically the question of “European Construction”, i.e. what is the aim of the European Project. Such a theory of political institutions is nested within a broader phenomenological account of institutions, dimensions of which I have tried to elaborate elsewhere. As a working co…Read more
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14The Body at the FrontStudia Phaenomenologica 7 (n/a): 353-376. 2007.This paper investigates the relation in Patočka’s thought between the concepts of the “front” and the “solidarity of the shaken”, which we find in the Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, particularly the sixth essay, “Wars of the Twentieth Century and The Twentieth Century as War”, and the phenomenological analysis of corporeity that we find in Patočka’s work from the late sixties, namely, “The Natural World and Phenomenology” (1967). We argue for a reading of the “front” and the “sol…Read more
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27Il y a du soin dans l’airMultitudes 58 (1): 173-183. 2015.In this article we discuss the question of whether a robotic carer could every really care. We argue that care is largely a matter of expressive and performative states rather than internal cognitive or emotional ones. We address the question of "authenticity" in caring and care work.
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44Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2015.This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: ‘liberal’ eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics, disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and disability, and the sense of the subject of bioethical inquiry itself. All of these issues are addressed from a “continental” perspective, drawing on a rich tradition of inquiry into these…Read more
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University of the West of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social SciencesSenior Research Fellow In Philosophy (Part-time)
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |