I am writing a book arguing that misanthropy is more complex, more interesting, and more compelling than the received view - 'hatred of humankind' - would have us believe. I'm also becoming interested in pessimism and its relation to misanthropy.
Pessimism
Other relevant work:
- A book on misanthropy, in progress.
- A collection of philosophical essays on misanthropy, co-edited with Kate Norlock, in progress.
- A chapter on the Buddha's pessimistic misanthropy for an volume edited by David McPherson, commissioned.
- 'The Hermit of the Lonely Loch', Daily Philosophy, 16 August 2024.
- I discuss misanthropic themes in the life of the eponymous contemporary hermit.
- Review of Adam Kirsch, The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us, Philosophy Now 159 (2023): 53-54.
- 'Transhumanism and Misanthropy', Daily Philosophy, 1 December, 2 December.
- ‘Misanthropes – Literary and Philosophical’, review of Joseph Harris, Misanthropy in the Age of Reason, Daily Philosophy, 6 August 2023.
- Review of David E. Cooper, Animals and Misanthropy, Philosophy 98.3 (2023): 407-411.
- ‘Why Misanthropy?’, Anthony Morgan (ed.), What Matters Most: Conversations on the Art of Living (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Agenda, 2023), 221-232.*
- ‘From Vices to Corruption to Misanthropy’, TheoLogica 7.2 (2023).*
- Special issue on Vice and Sin edited by Michele Paolini Paoletti and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza.
- 'Misanthropy and the Hatred of Humankind', Noell Birondo (ed.), The Moral Psychology of Hatred (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), 75-98.*
- ‘Varieties of Philosophical Misanthropy’, Journal of Philosophical Research 46 (2021): 27-44.
- ‘Humankind, Human Nature, and Misanthropy’, Metascience 29 (2020): 505–508.
- Essay review of Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020).
- 'Pandemic, Pessimism, and Misanthropy', American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 20.1 (2020): 34-36..
- Fall 2020 special issue on Feminist Responses to Pandemics and Covid-19.
- ‘Philosophical Misanthropy’, Philosophy Now August/September issue (2020): 22-25.
- 'Philosophical Misanthropy', recording of a public lecture at the Philosophy Now! Festival, Conway Hall, London, January 2020.
- 'Animals, Misanthropy, and Humanity', Journal of Animal Ethics 10.1 (2020): 66–72.
- Essay review of David E. Cooper, Animals and Misanthropy (2018).
- 'Vices, Misanthropy, and Daoism', Philosophy in Three Words podcast, University of Exeter Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, May 2019.
Pessimism
- A planned paper on pessimism in Nahua (Aztec) philosophy.
- A paper-in-progress on Buddhist philosophical pessimism.
- A paper-in-progress on the comparative history of philosophical pessimism.
- A paper-in-progress on grief and pessimism.
- 'Hánfēizǐ - A Chinese Philosophical Pessimist?', Daily Philosophy, 22 May 2024.
- 'Taking Pessimism Seriously', Daily Philosophy, 11 May 2024.
- 'Pandemic, Pessimism, and Misanthropy', American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 20.1 (2020): 34-36.
- Fall 2020 special issue on Feminist Responses to Pandemics and Covid-19.
Other relevant work:
- A paper on Buddhist vice ethics.
- A chapter on animals and virtues for an edited volume.*
- A paper on carnism and vices.
- Review of Rebecca Kondyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices, 2nd ed., Journal of Moral Philosophy 19 (2022) 527–557.
- Review of Nicholas Bommarito, Inner Virtue, Philosophical Quarterly 69.276 (2019): 641–644.*
