Staff
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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/
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/
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.
Iain 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 iain.grant[at]uwe.ac.uk
For further information about Iain's work visit http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/arts/aboutus/staff/driaingrant.aspx
Iain 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 iain.grant[at]uwe.ac.uk
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
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. From January 2015 he will philosopher-in-residence at the Bristol Synthetic Biology Centre. He is also the lead on the Post-Europe Project.
The author of numerous journal articles and book chapters in these areas, Darian has also recently 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. Darian is also currently involved in an editorial partnership with OpenDemocracy.net on "Europe, The Very Idea". For further information about Darian's work visit his personal home page or academia.edu page.
Contact: darian.meacham[at]uwe.ac.uk
The author of numerous journal articles and book chapters in these areas, Darian has also recently 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. Darian is also currently involved in an editorial partnership with OpenDemocracy.net on "Europe, The Very Idea". For further information about Darian's work visit his personal home page or academia.edu page.
Contact: darian.meacham[at]uwe.ac.uk
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
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 co-authored with Iain Hamilton Grant and Jeremy Dunham, Idealism: The History of a Philosophy.
Contact: Sean.Watson[at]uwe.ac.uk
For further information about Sean's work visit http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/arts/aboutus/staff/drseanwatson.aspx
Contact: Sean.Watson[at]uwe.ac.uk
For further information about Sean's work visit http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/arts/aboutus/staff/drseanwatson.aspx
Dagmar Wilhelm
Dagmar has research Interests in moral, social and political philosophy (including analytic
approaches), the Frankfurt School, 19th & 20th century German Philosophy, and Feminism.
Her work concerns the relation between the individual and the community and hence conceptions of 'autonomy', 'solidarity', 'recognition', along with notions of collective agency, 'collective consciousness' and collective responsibility. She is particularly interested in Nancy Fraser's three dimensional and Axel Honneth's recognition theoretical approaches to justice, as well as the latter's appropriation of Hegel and, increasingly, of Marx to provide an account of justice that remains faithful to an original Frankfurt School 'programme'. She is also investigating the notion and possibility of cosmopolitan solidarity, drawing on aspects of Honneth’s notion of solidarity and Habermas’ account of solidarity between strangers.
She also dabbles in epistemology, with a special interest in Frankfurt School and Feminist (including Frankfurt School Feminist) critiques of traditional and mainstream epistemology.
Contact: dagmar.wilhelm[at]uwe.ac.uk
For further information, please visit: https://bristol.academia.edu/DagmarWilhelm
Her work concerns the relation between the individual and the community and hence conceptions of 'autonomy', 'solidarity', 'recognition', along with notions of collective agency, 'collective consciousness' and collective responsibility. She is particularly interested in Nancy Fraser's three dimensional and Axel Honneth's recognition theoretical approaches to justice, as well as the latter's appropriation of Hegel and, increasingly, of Marx to provide an account of justice that remains faithful to an original Frankfurt School 'programme'. She is also investigating the notion and possibility of cosmopolitan solidarity, drawing on aspects of Honneth’s notion of solidarity and Habermas’ account of solidarity between strangers.
She also dabbles in epistemology, with a special interest in Frankfurt School and Feminist (including Frankfurt School Feminist) critiques of traditional and mainstream epistemology.
Contact: dagmar.wilhelm[at]uwe.ac.uk
For further information, please visit: https://bristol.academia.edu/DagmarWilhelm
Visiting Fellow
Emilio Carlo Corriero is Research Fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici of Naples, adjunct Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Turin and qualified as Associate Professor. The director of the philosophical series Schellings Philosophie, in his most relevant works he has highlighted the philosophical affinities between Schelling and Nietzsche and is currently completing a book on the concept of ground after Heidegger. His other books include Vertigini della regione. Schelling e Nietzsche (2008), and Libertà e conflitto. Da Heidegger a Schelling, per un'ontologia dinamica (2012), and as editor, Nature and Realism in Schelling's Philosophy (2013) and the Italian edition of Manfred Frank's lectures on Schelling (2010).
Associate Lecturers
- Imogen Smith
- Will Stronge
- Charlotte Alderwick
- Kyle Lewis
