University of Warwick

Graduate Student, Philosophy

Other Affiliations: University of York, Philosophy

About

I am a postgraduate research student in philosophy, specialising primarily in the history of philosophy (esp. nineteenth and twentieth-century French and German philosophy) and metaphilosophy, although I maintain an interest in various other areas, including what might broadly be characterised as the philosophy of mind. I'm based in York (UK), although I'm also fairly regularly in Oslo.

In October 2011 I began a PhD in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, under the supervision of Prof. Miguel de Beistegui. 

In the thesis, I am seeking to discern and articulate a shared philosophical and metaphilosophical project in the work of Martin Heidegger (c. 1919-1927) and Gilles Deleuze (c. 1953-1968), a shared set of problems and a common conceptual orientation in approaching their solution. This investigation revolves around the metaphilosophical problems regarding the place of philosophy in relation to the sciences which develop in mid-nineteenth-century European philosophy and which persist - I argue - through into the mid-twentieth century. In particular, I am interested in the tripartite distinction, which comes to structure the metaphilosophical landscape from the mid-nineteenth century on, between metaphysics, transcendental philosophy and positivism; in the different ideas of the relation between philosophy and the sciences that these three terms represent; and in how these terms are reorganised, reworked but essentially preserved over the hundred year period between the 1860s and the 1960s. To put things very programmatically, I argue that Heidegger and Deleuze work to renew (necessarily by transforming) the 'metaphysical' pole of this distinction through a transformative reconciliation of the other two poles. Ultimately, I hope to conclude with some reflections on how Heidegger's and Deleuze's interventions into their metaphilosophical milieux can inform our own thinking regarding the current metaphilosophical situation.

In 2010, I obtained an MA (Distinction) in Continental Philosophy from the University of Warwick; and, in 2009, a BA (1st Class Hons.) in Philosophy from the University of York. 

My MA dissertation, supervised by Prof. de Beistegui, was entitled 'Heidegger, Earth and the Limits of Phenomenology: Towards a Post-Phenomenological Materialism'. It can be viewed at http://speculativehumbug.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/ma-dissertation/.

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