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11The Changing Nature of the Public SphereJournal of Social and Political Philosophy 2 (2): 175-190. 2023.Can the public sphere be conceptualised in a manner that is non-reductive and inclusive? In this article, we survey the main literature on the public sphere and demonstrate that, despite apparent diversity, the dominant approaches to its conceptualisation share the same ‘matter and form’ or hylomorphic assumptions. In challenging these assumptions, our aim is to demonstrate that it is the hylomorphic model of the public sphere that prevents non-reductive conceptualisation of its essentially chan…Read more
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10The Ethics of Political Resistance: Althusser, Badiou, DeleuzeEdinburgh University Press. 2019.A new ontology that forms the groundwork for ethical practices of resistance What and how should individuals resist in political situations? While these questions recur regularly within Western political philosophy, answers to them have often relied on dogmatically held ideals, such as the distinction between truth and doxa or the privilege of thought over sense. In particular, the strain of idealist political philosophy, inaugurated by Plato and finding contemporary expression in the work of A…Read more
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17Louis Althusser’s ‘How to be a Marxist in Philosophy’ (review)Marx and Philosophy Review of Books. 2019.
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35Contra-Axiomatics: A Non- Dogmatic And Non-Idealist Practice Of ResistanceDissertation, University of Kent. 2016.What and how should individuals resist in political situations? While this question, or versions of it, recurs regularly within Western political philosophy, answers to it have often relied on dyads founded upon dogmatically held ideals. In particular, there is a strain of idealist political philosophy, inaugurated by Plato and finding contemporary expression in the work of Alain Badiou, that employs dyads (such as the distinction between truth and doxa or the privilege of thought over sense) th…Read more
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259On Truth and InstrumentalisationLondon Journal in Critical Thought 1 (1): 5-15. 2016.This paper makes two claims. Firstly, it shows that thinking the truth of any particular concept (such as politics) is founded upon an instrumental logic that betrays the truth of a situation. Truth cannot be thought ‘of something’, for this would fall back into a theory of correspondence. Instead, truth is a function of thought. In order to make this move to a functional concept of truth, I outline Dewey’s criticism, and two important repercussions, of dogmatically instrumental philosophy. I th…Read more
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University of KentSchool of Politics and International Relations
Centre for European and World LanguagesAssociate Professor
University of Kent
PhD, 2014 (Part-time)
Hackington, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
Ontology |
Political Concepts |