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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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43Medicine 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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40The Subject of Enhancement: Augmented Capacities, Extended Cognition, and Delicate Ecologies of the MindThe New Bioethics 21 (1): 5-19. 2015.This paper argues for an inflationary and capacity-relative understanding of human enhancement technology. In doing so it echoes the approach followed by Buchanan. Particular emphasis is placed on the point that capacities themselves are relative to demands placed on the organism by its environment. In the case of human beings, this environment is to a very large extent institutionally structured. On the basis of the inflationary and capacity-relative concept of enhancement, I argue that the sub…Read more
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33'Faith is in things not seen': Merleau-Ponty on Faith, Virtù, and the Perception of StyleIn Kascha Semonovitch Neal DeRoo (ed.), Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception, Continuum. pp. 185. 2010.
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56Transgenerational Epigenetics, or the Spectral History of the FleshChiasmi International 9 65-93. 2007.
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4Medicine and Society, New Continental Perspectives (Dordrecht: Springer, Philosophy and Medicine Series, 2015) (edited book)Springer. 2015.
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11Brill Online Books and JournalsResearch in Phenomenology 43 (1): 3-26. 2013.The idea of “style” emerges at several important points throughout Husserl’s oeuvre: in the second part of the Crisis of the European Sciences, the lectures on intersubjectivity published in Husserliana XV, and in the analyses of transcendental character and intersubjectivity in the second book of the Ideas. This paper argues that the idea of style, often overlooked, is in fact central to understanding Husserl’s conception of the person and intersubjective relations, its role in the latter captu…Read more
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73What Goes Without Saying: Husserl’s Concept of StyleResearch in Phenomenology 43 (1): 3-26. 2013.The idea of “style” emerges at several important points throughout Husserl’s oeuvre: in the second part of the Crisis of the European Sciences, the lectures on intersubjectivity published in Husserliana XV, and in the analyses of transcendental character and intersubjectivity in the second book of the Ideas. This paper argues that the idea of style, often overlooked, is in fact central to understanding Husserl’s conception of the person and intersubjective relations, its role in the latter captu…Read more
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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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25The 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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39Empathy 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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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 |