I'm interested in transformative experiences, and exemplarism.
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Transformative experience

• 'Expanding Transformative Experience', co-authored with Havi Carel, European Journal of Philosophy 28.1 (2019): 199-213..
  • ​We focus on chronic illnesses and other forms of embodied suffering as types of unelected transformative experience.

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• 'Suffering and Transformative Experience', co-authored with Havi Carel, for David Bain, Michael Brady, and Jennifer Corns (eds.), The Philosophy of Suffering (London: Routledge), forthcoming.*

 

• ‘Pandemic Transformative Experiences’, co-authored with Havi Carel, The Philosophers’ Magazine 90 (2020): 24-31.

• ‘Illness as Transformative Experience’, co-authored with Havi Carel and Richard Pettigrew, The Lancet, 388 (2016): 1152-1153.

Exemplarism 

• 'A Pluralist Account of Spiritual Exemplarity', Victoria Harrison and Tyler McNabb (ed.), Philosophy and the Spiritual Life (London: Routledge, 2023) 92-108.*
  • A collection arising from the 2017 British Society for the Philosophy of Religion conference.

 

• ‘“Following the Way of Heaven”: Exemplarism, Emulation, and Daoism’, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6.1 (2020): 1-15. 
  • Selected by the Editors for the JAPA Special Series in Non-Western Philosophy.

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• 'Daoism, Humanity, and the Way of Heaven', Religious Studies 56 (2020) 56, 111–126.
  • ​Special issue: Philosophy of Religions: Cross-Cultural, Multi-Religious Approaches, edited by Mikel Burley.

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• 'Admiration, Attraction, and the Aesthetics of Exemplarity', Journal  of Moral Education 48:3 (2019): 369-380.*
  • ​Special issue on education and exemplarism edited by Michel Croce and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza.

 

• ​'​Narratives of Adversity and Wisdom in Ancient Ethical and Spiritual Texts', co-authored with Will Kynes, Laura E. R. Blackie, and Kate C. McLean, Journal of Value Inquiry 53.3 (2019): 459-461.

 

• 'Adversity, Wisdom, and Exemplarism', Journal of Value Inquiry, 52.4 (2018) 379-393.​

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• 'Spiritual Exemplars', International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 79.4 (2018): 420-424.
  • Special issue: Living Religion, edited by Anastasia Philippa Scrutton and Simon Hewitt.

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• 'Beautiful Bodhisattvas: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Exemplarity', Contemporary Buddhism 18.2 (2017): 331-345.

 

• ‘Exemplars, Ethics, and Illness Narratives’, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38.4 (2017): 323-334.

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• ‘Beauty, Virtue, and Religious Exemplars’, Religious Studies 52.3 (2017): 171-181.

Other

• ‘Human Limitedness and the Virtues’, contribution to a symposium on David McPherson’s The Virtues of Limits, Cosmos + Taxis, forthcoming.*

• ‘Going Slow’, Daily Philosophy, 11 September 2021.