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1Fichte on optimism and pessimismIn Katerina Mihaylova & Anna Ezekiel (eds.), Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 109-123. 2023.
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270Fichte on Sex, Marriage, and GenderBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (6): 1168-1187. 2023.“I am only what I make myself to be”, Fichte tells us. In this paper, I outline Fichte’s views on sex, marriage and gender, with two aims. Firstly, to elucidate an aspect of his moral theory which has received little attention, and secondly to argue that Fichte’s distinctive stance on selfhood, freedom, and normativity lead to a revisionary account of gender expression and identity, where people can freely carve out their own identity, irrespective of “nature”. In this paper, I therefore outline…Read more
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228From Periodic Decline to Permanent Rebirth: Alexander Raven Thomson on Civilization, Pathology, and ViolencePhilosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 6 (2): 37-52. 2022.Alexander Raven Thomson was a British fascist philosopher, active from 1932 to 1955. I outline Thomson’s Spenglerian views on civilization and decline. I argue that Thomson in his first book is an orthodox Spenglerian who accepts that decline is inevitable and thinks that it is morally required to destroy civilization in its final stages. I argue that this suffers from conceptual issues which may have caused Thomson’s change to a revised form of Spenglerianism, which is more authentically f…Read more
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24The Theological Philosophy of William Temple: A Desire Argument and a Compassionate TheodicyPhilosophia 50 (5): 2627-2643. 2022.In this paper, I will investigate the early work of William Temple (1881–1944). My contention is that Temple’s systematic philosophy contains resources for an interesting variant of a desire argument for God’s existence and for the truth of Christianity. This desire argument moves from claims about the nature of human reason to the conditions for its satisfaction and how that satisfaction might be achieved. In constructing this argument, Temple confronts the problem of evil, and so I will also o…Read more
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3Fichte’s Ideas on God and Immortality (translation)Pli 29 185-197. 2018.This short piece is collected in the complete edition of Fichte's works published by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1964-2012), IV/1, pp. 153-167. According to the editors' foreword, it first appeared anonymously as part of a pamphlet titled "Something from Professor Fichte and for him. Published by a veracious schoolmaster" in 1799 in Bayreuth as a response to the so-called atheism dispute, which eventually cost Fichte his chair in Jena. This translation concerns a part appended to the pamph…Read more
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Review: Fiona Ellis, New Models of Religious Understanding (review)Religious Studies Review 44 458-459. 2018.
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51Faith without hope is dead: moral arguments and the theological virtuesReligious Studies 58 (1): 96-112. 2022.It is well-known that Kant defends a conception of God and the final end of our moral striving, called the highest good. In this article, I outline Kant's argument for why we ought to have faith in God and hope for the highest good, and argue that the Kantian argument can be extended in such a way as to show the unity of the theological virtues. This feature of the Kantian account can then have ramifications in further questions regarding the relationship of faith and moral action.
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21Transcendental Idealism and Naturalism: The Case of FichteJournal of Transcendental Philosophy 1 (1): 43-62. 2020.In this paper, I explore the relationship between naturalism and transcendental idealism in Fichte. I conclude that Fichte is a near-naturalist, akin to Baker, Lynne Rudder (2017). “Naturalism and the idea of nature,” Philosophy 92 (3): 333–349. A near-naturalist is one whose position looks akin to the naturalist in some ways but the near-naturalist can radically differ in metaphilosophical orientation and substantial commitment. This paper is composed of three sections. In the first, I outline …Read more
University College London
PhD, 2020
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
19th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Religion |