After reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, I completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Then I worked for two years as a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, before joining the University of Essex, where I am now a Reader in Moral and Political Philosophy (and Head of School for the School of Philosophy and Art History).
Research Focus: Frankfurt School (especially Adorno), Ethics (particularly Kant's and Kantian ethics, and contemporary debates about autonomy), Political Philosophy (both contemporary Anglo-American and 19th century theories), and Philosophy of Psychiatry.
Current In…
After reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, I completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Then I worked for two years as a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, before joining the University of Essex, where I am now a Reader in Moral and Political Philosophy (and Head of School for the School of Philosophy and Art History).
Research Focus: Frankfurt School (especially Adorno), Ethics (particularly Kant's and Kantian ethics, and contemporary debates about autonomy), Political Philosophy (both contemporary Anglo-American and 19th century theories), and Philosophy of Psychiatry.
Current Interests
(a) Autonomy and its (social) conditions;
(b) Methodology in Political Philosophy;
(c) Critical Theory and the idea of social pathology;
(d) Philosophy of Psychiatry;
(d) and the question of whether there is a distinct ethics after Auschwitz, and if so, what it consists in.
My book "Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly" appeared 2013 with CUP: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly