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• CV

I was educated in the US (Ph.D., Penn State) and the UK (M.A., B.A. Warwick), and joined the department in 2018. I have two main areas of research: German idealism (especially Kant and Schelling), and contemporary continental philosophy (especially Foucault). Much of my recent research has been about the history of philosophy in some form: sometimes I practice it, sometimes I theorize about it with the help of continental philosophers, and sometimes I explore its relation to other fields like history and the life sciences. I also have research interests in contemporary political philosophies in a global perspective and critical philosophy of race.

At the moment, I am engaged in the following research projects:

1. A book: Evil in Kant and German Idealism. I am convinced that this concept poses a major challenge to philosophy, raising issues not only within ethics, but also for the philosophy of history and systematic metaphysics. Alongside the difficult question of how to account for wrongdoing within the autonomy-based ethical frameworks of German idealism, this research has led me to think about how contemporary thought inherits certain political-theological ideas associated with theodicies, and to explore how philosophers have tried to account for apparently metaphysically 鈥榥egative鈥� things like evil.
2. I am interested in the question of how to do the history of philosophy today in light of well-known criticisms of the traditional canon, as well as theoretical developments in continental philosophy over the past hundred years or so. This has led me to a study of what I call 鈥榯he history of the history of philosophy鈥�, that is, the different approaches that philosophers have taken to writing the history of our discipline. How did we get from 鈥榣ives and opinions鈥� to Hegel鈥檚 organic model, or for that matter to Foucault鈥檚 notion of genealogy?
3. With dissident Indian philosophers Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan, I have been involved in the launch of Philosophy World Democracy, a multilingual journal based in India with a focus on politically engaged philosophy from global perspectives. I am one of six associate editors, the others being based in Tokyo, Paris, Delhi, Zagreb, and Bogot谩. This ongoing collaboration has resulted in some research including an article and special issue on contemporary Kurdish political philosophy, an article engaging with their book Gandhi and Philosophy and some texts on the coronavirus crisis.
4. More recently I have been exploring the relationship between philosophy and the life sciences, especially in the two periods that are the main focus of my research: Kant and post-Kantian philosophy, and 20th century French philosophy. I am interested in German idealism鈥檚 role in the birth of biology as an autonomous scientific discipline around 1800, especially the parts played by Kant鈥檚 essays on race and Schelling鈥檚 philosophy of nature. This research will involve a critical re-engagement with Foucault鈥檚 account of the shift from natural history to modern biology in The Order of Things, though I also take an interest in this theme in other 20th century French philosophers such as Canguilhem and Deleuze.

 

Publications

Edited Journal Issues

鈥�Foucault and Phenomenology鈥� (with Mary Beth Mader), special issue of The Southern Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)

鈥樷��, special issue of The Southern Journal of Philosophy 62(S2), 2024.

鈥樷��, special issue of Philosophy World Democracy 2022.

 

Articles and Book Chapters

鈥楽eeds and Stones: Schelling and Reinhold on the Structure of the History of Philosophy鈥�, in The Historical Turn in Early Post-Kantian Philosophy eds. Karin De Boer, Pavel Reichl, and Manuel Tangorra, De Gruyter (forthcoming)

鈥� 鈥淎 Goose Woke up the Sleeping Philosophers鈥�: Foucault on Political Historicism in the English Revolution鈥�, in Genealogy: A Genealogy eds. Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and Daniele Lorenzini, Columbia University Press (forthcoming)

鈥楢 Kantian Conspiracy in the Writing of the History of Philosophy鈥�, in Questioning 鈥榃estern Philosophy鈥�: Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Challenges eds. Lea Cantor and Josh Platzky Miller, Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

鈥楰ant鈥檚 Racism and the Historiography of Philosophy鈥�, Critical Philosophy of Race (forthcoming)

鈥樷��, Philosophers鈥� Imprint 24(16), 2024

鈥樷��, Idealistic Studies 54(3), 2024

鈥樷��, Kant-Studien 114(3), 2023

鈥樷��, Philosophy World Democracy 2022

鈥樷��, Philosophy World Democracy 2022

鈥樷��, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 105(1), 2022

鈥樷��, in Virality of Evil: Philosophy in the Time of a Pandemic ed. Divya Dwivedi, Rowman & Littlefield 2022

鈥� 鈥�, Research in Phenomenology 51(3), 2021

鈥樷��, positions politics: episteme 4

鈥樷��, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Coronavirus and Philosophers. A Tribune (Agamben, Benvenuto, Cacciari, Cristi, Kristeva, Mbembe, Smith, Irigaray), 2020

鈥樷��, European Journal of Philosophy 29(4), 2020

鈥樷��, Continental Philosophy Review 51(1), 2018

鈥� 鈥�, Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology 48(2), 2017

鈥樷��, Journal of Speculative Philosophy 29(3), 2015

鈥� 鈥�, Foucault Studies 19, 2015. Spanish translation by Eugenia Victoria Arria 脕lvarez and Juan Horacio de Freitas as 鈥楩oucault sobre 茅tica y subjectividad: 鈥榗uidado de s铆鈥� y 鈥榚st茅tica de la existencia鈥�, in Dorsal. Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos 2, 2017