I'm a philosopher, based in the North East of England, and working at Durham University as an associate professor.

I mostly work on topics related to perception - particularly spatial perception, and, in aesthetics, perception of form (and, more recently, the histories of thinking about both of these) - but my 'method' is quite synthetic and I typically end up venturing outside these confines so as to bring considerations from metaphysics, philosophy of action, and in the last year or so, ethics to bear on the rather more specific puzzles I end up chasing. I wrote my PhD (2012) on the perception of empty space (what is it? what kinds of prop…

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