I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. I presently hold an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship in support of a project titled, Sympathy in Harmony: Margaret Cavendish's Philosophy of Value.
I am on a member of the trustees committee for the British Society of Aesthetics, the scientific board of the British Society for the Theory of Knowledge, and the editorial board of the multidisciplinary open access journal, Margaret Cavendish. From 2018-2023, I was the Director of the Mind Association. From 2016-2019, I was Head of Department. Before joining Southampton in 2007, I studied and then held a lectureship at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading. Long before that, I grew up on the north coast of Cornwall.
I now live by the beach in Pokesdown (in Boscombe (in Bournemouth)). I am married to Hayley, the Heritage Archive and Research Manager for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. We have two sons - Elliot and Stanley.
Outside of philosophy, my interests include reading (novels, poetry, comics), watching films, playing card and board games, walking (long distances), running (slowly), cooking (and eating), and visual art (consuming not producing).
I am on a member of the trustees committee for the British Society of Aesthetics, the scientific board of the British Society for the Theory of Knowledge, and the editorial board of the multidisciplinary open access journal, Margaret Cavendish. From 2018-2023, I was the Director of the Mind Association. From 2016-2019, I was Head of Department. Before joining Southampton in 2007, I studied and then held a lectureship at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading. Long before that, I grew up on the north coast of Cornwall.
I now live by the beach in Pokesdown (in Boscombe (in Bournemouth)). I am married to Hayley, the Heritage Archive and Research Manager for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. We have two sons - Elliot and Stanley.
Outside of philosophy, my interests include reading (novels, poetry, comics), watching films, playing card and board games, walking (long distances), running (slowly), cooking (and eating), and visual art (consuming not producing).
