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history of 20th century european philosophy

I'm mainly interested in 'reactionary modernism' and Wittgenstein.

Reactionary modernism
  • A paper on Spengler's influence on Wittgenstein.

  • A paper on exemplarism and 'reactionary modernism'.

  • An essay review of Ernst Jünger, The Worker (Der Arbeiter).​ 

  • 'Feyerabend and Marx', co-authored with Rory Kent, for Stefano Gattei and Roberta Corvi (eds.), Feyerabend in Dialogue, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Springer, 2024), 33-47.*
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  • ’The hermeneutic problem of psychiatry’ and the co-production of meaning in psychiatric healthcare’, co-auhtored with Lucienne Spencer, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 94 (2023): 103-131.
    • Special issue on Lived Experience and Co-production in Philosophy and Mental Health, edited by Anna Bergqvist, David Crepaz-Keay and Alana Wilde.
    • Our discussion focuses on Gadamer's work, especially his 1996 book The Enigma of Health.

  • ‘Creativity in Science and the ‘Anthropological Turn’ in Virtue Theory’, European Journal for Philosophy of Science (Special issue on Creativity in Art, Science & Mind, edited by Adrian Currie and Anton Killin), forthcoming.
    • The bulk of this paper is a study of the early Marx's views on science and creativity.

  • 'Life, "Technics", and the Decline of the West', Berlin Review of Books, 23 November 2017.*
    • Essay review of Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics, Routledge Revival series.
 
  • ‪‘Oswald Spengler’, Gregory Claey (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Modern Political Thought (Washington DC: CQ Press, 2013).*
 
  • ‪‘Oswald Spengler, Technology and Human Nature: Man and Technics as Philosophical Anthropology’, The European Legacy 17.1 (2012): 19-31.
 
  • ‘Education, Virtues and Authenticity: The Case of Ernst Jünger, ‘Total Mobilisation’, and Academic Philosophy’, Discourse 10 (2011): 25-38.  ​


Wittgenstein
  • 'Feyerabend on Human Life, Abstraction, and the "Conquest of Abundance", Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, 2024. Special issue: “Science in a Free Society. On Paul Feyerabend’s Intellectual Legacy”. Edited by Olga E. Stoliarova.*
    • This paper explores some connections between the later writings of Feyerabend, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein.

  • ‪Wittgenstein and Scientism‪, co-edited with Jonathan Beale (London: Routledge, 2017).
    • ​Review: Anna Boncompagni, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 5 July 2018.
    • ​Review: John Edelman, Philosophical Investigations (2018): 475-480.
    • ​Review: Mariam Thalos, ‘Philosophy in an Age of Science’, Metascience 28.1 (2019): 51-53.
    • ​Review: Ryan Manhire, British Wittgenstein Society Newsletter, 11 January 2019.

  • ‪‘Introduction: Wittgenstein and Scientism’, Jonathan Beale and Ian James Kidd (eds.), Wittgenstein and Scientism (London: Routledge, 2017), 1-6.
 
  • ‪‘Reawakening to Wonder: Wittgenstein, Feyerabend, and Scientism’, in Jonathan Beale and Ian James Kidd (eds.), Wittgenstein and Scientism (London: Routledge, 2017), 101-115.

Other
  • 'Varieties of Humanism and Conceptions of Science', Anjan Chakravartty (ed.), Science and Humanism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), forthcoming.
    • ​Much of this paper discusses the views of phenomenologists like Heidegger and Husserl, critical theorists (like Althusser) and Foucault.
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    • VICES OF THE MND >
      • Animals and Environment >
        • Transformative experience
        • Ethics and Exemplarism
        • Epistemic Vices
        • Feyerabend
        • Metaphilosophy
        • Mary Midgley
        • Philosophy of Education
        • Philosophy of Science
        • 20th Century Austro-German Philosophy
        • Scientism
        • Epistemic virtues
        • Philosophy of Religion and the Spiritual Life
        • Philosophy of Illness and Healthcare
        • Chinese philosophy
        • Publications (by date)
        • Feminist Philosophy
        • Charles Fort
        • Epistemology
        • Phenomenology
        • Misanthropy
        • Epistemic injustice
        • Social and institutional epistemology
        • Buddhist philosophy
        • Terrorism
        • Aesthetics
      • Epistemic Virtues and Vices in a Non-Ideal World
      • Epistemic Vices: Individual and Collective
      • Civic Vices
      • Pessimism, Nihilism, and Misanthropy
      • Kosterfest
      • MHMHI
      • Animals, Ethics, and Ideology
      • Ritual and Practice in Chinese Philosophy
      • Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy
      • Civic Virtues
      • JUST PHILOSOPHY 3
      • History of Philosophy >
        • Midgleyfest
        • Buddhist Philosophy
  • Teaching
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