Oxford Brookes University

Faculty Member, Philosophy

Senior Lecturer

About

I am a senior lecturer in philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, a faculty member of New York University in London (NYU- L), and an RSA fellow.

I am also a research member of the Nomos Network for Applied Philosophy:

http://www.ub.edu/nomos/

and the LOGOS project 'Modal Aspects of Materialist Realism':

http://www.ub.es/grc_logos/project_card.php?idProj=14



RESEARCH

My research interests are unfashionably broad. While much of my work focuses primarily on the philosophy of action and its explanation it typically cuts across a variety of traditionally distinct fields: philosophy of history, moral psychology, metaphilosophy, and the philosophy of science. I also work on related topics (from causation to moral particularism) and have a special interest in Aristotle, Hume, the later Wittgenstein, Hegel, and ancient tragedy.

I welcome comments on any drafts I upload.

Currently, I am finishing a monograph on the theory of motivation (for Palgrave) and beginning an introduction to the philosophy of action (for Wiley-Blackwell). I have also been working on a critical introduction to Davidson's philosophy of action and am the Philosophy of Action editor at PhilPapers:

http://philpapers.org/browse/philosophy-of-action/

My edited collection on action explanation is now out:

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279045

A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (which I co-edited  with Timothy O' Connor) is now in production (see 'Books' for a table of contents). I am currently finalising a volume on Hegel on Action (Palgrave Macmillan, with Arto Laitinen), after which I will begin editorial work on the proceedings from the forthcoming Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Human Nature, to be held at Oxford Brookes in 2010 (Cambridge University Press, with Mark Cain).  I am also co-editor (with Stephen Boulter) of Palgrave Macmillan's 'Philosophers in Depth' series:

http://www.palgrave.com/philosophy/pid.asp



TEACHING

At Brookes I teach Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy, Hellenistic Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy, and Philosophy of Language,and (from 2010-11) Moral Psychology.

At NYU in London I teach the Central Problems in Philosophy course:

http://www.nyu.edu/global/london/freshmen/courses/fall/central_problems_of_philo.htm

I am also the programme leader for Brookes'  MA course in "Mind, Brain, and Learning"  for which I teach a class on  'Problems in the Philosophy of Mind and Action'. I welcome enquiries from potential MA, MPhil or PhD students who wish to work on moral psychology or any other issues in the philosophy of action and its explanation.

Contact Information

Email:

Homepage: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/education/staffinfo/sandis.html

Address: Oxford Brookes University
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NYU in London
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Telephone: +44(0)1865 488492