Staff

For further information, visit our academia.edu profiles.

Alison Assiter

Alison writes on political philosophy, feminist thought, Enlightenment philosophy, and in particular on the philosophies of Kant and Kierkegaard. Her latest book Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory: Unfinished Selves has been described by reviewers as 'a thoughtful and original work' and 'a remarkable book'. Her other books include Enlightened Women, Althusser and Feminism, and Revisiting Universalism. She also has an active interest in the philosophy of education. Alison is co-editor of the new series Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political with Rowan and Littlefield International.
Alison is a Fellow of the RSA and Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. If you have any questions about undergraduate study at UWE Philosophy please contact her at alison.assiter[at]uwe.ac.uk, or contact mike.lewis[at]uwe.ac.uk.

For further information about Alison's work visit http://www.alisonassiter.com/

Leone Gazziero

Leone works on ancient and mediaeval philosophy and literature. He will be moving to the CNRS in Paris at the end of the summer.
Contact: Leone.gazziero (at) uwe.ac.uk

For more information about Leone's work, please visit: http://unige.academia.edu/LeoneGazziero

Iain Hamilton Grant

Iain works on German Idealism, with a particular focus on the work of F. W. J. Schelling and the philosophy of nature, contemporary French philosophy, Ancient thought (particularly Platonism and neo-Platonism), 'powers' ontology, and materialism. His monograph on Schelling and the philosophy of nature has been described as 'an important, indeed a groundbreaking work'. He has also co-authored with Jeremy Dunham and Sean Watson, Idealism: The History of a Philosophy. He is also the translator of a number of works in both French and German, including texts by Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Schelling.

For further information about Iain's work visit http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/arts/aboutus/staff/driaingrant.aspx

Michael Lewis

Mike studies and writes on twentieth century European philosophy. In particular he works on phenomenology, Derridean deconstruction and Lacanian psycho-analysis, biopolitics, the philosophy of nature, and philosophical anthropology. He is the author of Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing, Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction: On Nature, Heidegger and the Place of Ethics, and (with Tanja Staehler), Phenomenology: An Introduction. He is working on a far-reaching monograph on the possibilities for a contemporary revival of philosophical anthropology, including engagements with Esposito, Agamben, and Derrida on the notion of (auto)immune life, Lacan's use of anthropology and biology, Merleau-Ponty's and Derrida's respective understandings of the relation between transcendentalism and naturalism, Stiegler's relation to anthropology, and Heidegger's 1929-30 lectures on the relation between animal and man, together with Derrida's reading of this text in his final seminar.
Contact: mike.lewis[at]uwe.ac.uk.

For further information, please visit http://westengland.academia.edu/MichaelLewis

Darian Meacham

Darian Meacham has research interests in phenomenology (particularly Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Patocka), political philosophy, philosophy of nature and bioethics, especially the ethics of human enhancement. More often than not these interests come together in his work. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters in these areas. Recently he has edited Phenomenology and Naturalism (Cambridge University Press, 2013), with Havi Carel (read a draft of the editors introduction here), and 'Starting from Nature' (special issue of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 44:1), with Niall Keane (read the introduction here, and Darian's contribution here). A collection on philosophy of medicine and bioethics, Medicine and Society, New Continental Perspectives (Springer) is forthcoming (read a draft of the preface).

He is a member of the Centre for Health and Clinical Research at UWE and blogs occasionally for the Huffington Post and OpenDemocracy.net Darian is the programme leader of our MA in European Philosophy. If you have any questions about graduate study at UWE Philosophy please contact him at darian.meacham[at]uwe.ac.uk

For further information about Darian's work visit his personal home page or academia.edu page

Katrina Mitcheson

Katrina's research interests include the history of European philosophy, particularly Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault, and also aesthetics and the care of the self. A question that runs through much of her research is: how can we know, work on and transform ourselves? She has a forthcoming book which explores the interaction between the existential and epistemological elements of Nietzsche’s views on truth and recently she has been working on the role of solitude and culture in Nietzsche’s thought. Her current major research project is a book for Edinburgh University Press, Visual Art and Projects of the Self, which addresses how the production and viewing of visual artworks can contribute to projects of cultivating and transforming the self, and challenge the adequacy of a purely narrative understanding of selfhood.
Contact: Katrina.mitcheson (at) uwe.ac.uk

For more information about Katrina's work, please visit: http://mmu.academia.edu/KatrinaMitcheson

Sean Watson

Sean is an expert in twentieth century French philosophy. He also has keen interests in (and teaches) philosophy of mind. He recently co-authored with Iain Grant and Jeremy Dunham, Idealism: The History of a Philosophy.

For further information about Sean's work visit http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/arts/aboutus/staff/drseanwatson.aspx

Visiting Fellow

Dr. Francesco Tava.

Francesco will be visiting the Department in the Spring term 2013-14. For
details on his work, see his academia.edu page: https://unimi.academia.edu/FrancescoTava