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6Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health EmergencyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55 (1): 1-4. 2023.NOTE FROM THE EDITORS OF THE JBSP Questions about the relations between environmental crises, health and injustices have become increasingly important to phenomenological inquiry in recent years. T...
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Phenomenology and naturalism : editors' introductionIn Havi Carel & Darian Meacham (eds.), Phenomenology and Naturalism: Examining the Relationship Between Human Experience and Nature, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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Editor's PrefaceIn Pierre Maine de Biran (ed.), The relationship between the physical and the moral in man, Bloomsbury Academic. 2016.
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8Editor’s IntroductionJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 53 (3): 225-225. 2022.We are pleased to publish in this issue of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology two articles submitted to the first Wolfe Mays Essay Prize competition – the winning article and a ru...
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46Thinking After Europe: Jan Patocka and Politics (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2016.Jan Patočka, perhaps more so than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, managed to combine intense philosophical insight with a farsighted analysis of the idea and challenges facing Europe as a historical, cultural and political signifier. As a political dissident in communist Czechoslovakia he also became a moral and political inspiration to a generation of Czechs, including Václav Havel. He accomplished this in a time of intense political repression when not even the hint of a unifie…Read more
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16BrisSynBio Art-Science DossierNanoEthics 14 (1): 27-41. 2020.Finding avenues for collaboration and engagement between the arts and the sciences (natural and social) was a central theme of investigation for the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Public Engagement programme at BrisSynBio, a BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre that is now part of the Bristol BioDesign Institute at University of Bristol (UK). The reflections and experiments that appear in this dossier are a sample of these investigations and are contributed by Maria Fanni…Read more
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254Phenomenology and Naturalism: Examining the Relationship Between Human Experience and Nature (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.What is the relationship between phenomenology and naturalism? Are they mutually exclusive or is a rapprochement possible between their approaches to consciousness and the natural world? Can phenomenology be naturalised and ought it to be? Or is naturalism fundamentally unable to accommodate phenomenological insights? How can phenomenological method be used within a naturalistic research programme? This cutting-edge collection of original essays contains brilliant contributions from leading phen…Read more
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30The Algorithmic Disruption of Workplace SolidarityPhilosophy Today 65 (3): 571-598. 2021.This paper examines the development and technological mediation of the concept of solidarity. We focus on the workplace as a focal point of solidarity relations, and utilise a phenomenological approach to describe and analyse those relations. Workplace solidarity, which has been historically concretised through social objects such as labor unions, is of particular political relevance since it has played an outsize role in the broader struggle for social, economic, and political rights, recogniti…Read more
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17Epoché and institution: the fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenologyStudies in East European Thought 73 (3): 309-326. 2020.This article examines the relation between two key, but seemingly opposed concepts in Jan Patočka’s thought: epoché and the concrete institutional polis. In doing so it attempts to elucidate the inextricable relation between phenomenology and politics in the work of the Czech philosopher, and illustrate more broadly the possibilities for approaching the political from a phenomenological perspective. The article provides a phenomenological interpretation of “care for the soul” as closely linked t…Read more
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13‘Synthetic Blood’: Entangling Politics and BiologyBody and Society 25 (2): 28-55. 2019.It is increasingly suggested that shortages in the supply chain for human blood could be met by the development of techniques to manufacture human blood ex vivo. These techniques fall broadly under the umbrella of synthetic biology. We examine the biopolitical context surrounding the ex vivo culture of red blood cells through the linked concepts of alienation, immunity, bio-value and biosecuritization. We engage with diverse meanings of synthetic blood, and questions about how the discourses of …Read more
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27Philosophy and Synthetic Biology: the BrisSynBio ExperimentNanoEthics 14 (1): 21-25. 2020.This article provides an overview of the relation between synthetic biology and philosophy as understood from within the Ethics, Philosophy and Responsible Innovation programme of BrisSynBio (a BBSRC/EPSCR Synthetic Biology Research Centre). It also introduces the special issue of NanoEthics devoted to synthetic biology and philosophy.
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6Supercivilization and BiologismIn Francesco Tava & Darian Meacham (eds.), Thinking After Europe: Jan Patocka and Politics, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2016.Towards the end of one of his last texts, “The Schema of History”, Patočka poses a question that orients much of his late thought on the concepts of “post-Europe,” the “solidarity of the shaken,” and indeed “war” as the unifying theme of the twentieth century. The question is simply: will “man” of “the planetary era” live in a manner that is effectively historical? Other contributions in this book have taken on this question in its positive sense by addressing the concepts of “post-Europe,” “sol…Read more
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23Phenomenological Approaches to the Political in Patocka and Merleau-PontyDissertation, KU Leuven. 2008.Contents INTRODUCTION: PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE POLITICAL IN PATOČKA AND MERLEAU-PONTY 11 1. Memory and community 11 2. Patočka 18 3. Merleau-Ponty, Husserl and institution 22 4. The political context 28 5. Status of the current research 32 6. Overview of the chapters 34 CHAPTER 1: THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL EPOCHĒ AND THE POLITICAL 39 1. Introduction 39 2. Criticism of Husserl’s notion of the lifeworld 46 3. The a priori of the World 49 4. The subject and the epochē 56 5. Epochē to polis 61…Read more
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Phenomenology and Naturalism: Volume 72: Examining the Relationship Between Human Experience and Nature (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.What is the relationship between phenomenology and naturalism? Are they mutually exclusive or is a rapprochement possible between their approaches to consciousness and the natural world? Can phenomenology be naturalised and ought it to be? Or is naturalism fundamentally unable to accommodate phenomenological insights? How can phenomenological method be used within a naturalistic research programme? This cutting-edge collection of original essays contains brilliant contributions from leading phen…Read more
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26The Over-Extended Mind? Pink Noise and the Ethics of Interaction-Dominant SystemsNanoEthics 12 (3): 269-281. 2018.There is a growing recognition within cognitive enhancement and neuroethics debates of the need for greater emphasis on cognitive artefacts. This paper aims to contribute to this broadening and expansion of the cognitive-enhancement and neuroethics debates by focusing on a particular form of relation or coupling between humans and cognitive artefacts: interaction-dominance. We argue that interaction-dominance as an emergent property of some human-cognitive artefact relations has important implic…Read more
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29Biology, the Empathic Science: Husserl's Addendum XXIII of the Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental PhenomenologyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 44 (1): 10-24. 2013.
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23How Low Can You Go? BioEnactivism, Cognitive Biology and Umwelt OntologyHumana Mente 9 (31). 2016.The viability of enactivist philosophy in providing descriptions of biological phenomena across the phylogenetic spectrum relies in large part on the scalability of its central concepts, i.e. whether they remain operative at varying levels of biological complexity. In this paper, I will examine the possibility of scaling two deeply intertwined concepts: cognition and surrounding world. Contra some indications from Varela and others, I will argue that the concept of embodied cognition can be scal…Read more
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21Should Students Take Smart Drugs?The Philosophers' Magazine 79 83-89. 2017.Should Students Take Smart Drugs? If this were a straightforward question, you would not be reading about it in a philosophy magazine. But you are, so it makes sense that we try to clarify the terms of the discussion before wading in too far. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), when philosophers set out to de-obfuscate what look to be relatively forthright questions, things usually get more complicated rather than less: each of the operative terms at stake in the ques…Read more
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13Transgenerational Epigenetics, or the Spectral History of the FleshChiasmi International 9 65-93. 2007.
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23Starting from NatureJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 44 (1): 2-5. 2013.status: published.
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13Sense and Life: Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature and Evolutionary BiologyDiscipline Filosofiche 24 (2): 137-163. 2014.The article addresses Merleau-Ponty's later philosophy of nature in relation to two of its central operating concepts, behaviour and latency. It then examines some contemporary arguments for an extended evolutionary synthesis from the perspective of this philosophy of nature. I argue that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of nature may provide a productive ontological grounding to the extended evolutionary synthesis.
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22Il 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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41Medicine 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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35The 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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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 |