I am a philosopher who teaches A level philosophy, RS and the theory of knowledge paper for the International Baccalaureate. I have been head of department at Bexhill College (2014-2017) and at Richmond upon Thames College where I worked from 2000-2014. With my colleagues in the philosophy department I edited the Richmond Journal of Philosophy.
My research interests focus on the philosophy of the social sciences, metaphysics, political philosophy and ethics. Building on my doctoral thesis (2001) I have defended in a series of papers the view that social groups are composite material particulars, ontologically on a par with individuals and i…
I am a philosopher who teaches A level philosophy, RS and the theory of knowledge paper for the International Baccalaureate. I have been head of department at Bexhill College (2014-2017) and at Richmond upon Thames College where I worked from 2000-2014. With my colleagues in the philosophy department I edited the Richmond Journal of Philosophy.
My research interests focus on the philosophy of the social sciences, metaphysics, political philosophy and ethics. Building on my doctoral thesis (2001) I have defended in a series of papers the view that social groups are composite material particulars, ontologically on a par with individuals and ineliminable in their own right from our social scientific explanations and evaluative practices. The closest I get to offering a whole argument for this ontological realism about groups is in my monograph, The Reality of Social Groups (Ashgate, 2006). Plenty of people disagree with me.
I have also written on modality and divine nature.
