Staff profile

• My background is in metaethics, but I am currently engaged in a couple of projects of a different ilk.
• In one of them, I am retrieving the philosophy of Mary Warnock and positioning it in relation to the analytic turn in philosophy. I focus on her epistemology, explore what follows from it about the ontology of the objects of knowledge and thus about the nature of epistemic activity as well as about the norms that apply to it. I argue that all of that amounts, fundamentally, to a challenge to the conception of the individual assumed by analysis.
• In my other project, I appraise the power and limitations of feminism as a political endeavour to remove sexism from people’s lives. This amounts to questioning the slogan that the personal is political. When put under scrutiny, that slogan is either dystopian or an oxymoron. The kernel of truth in it is that there is a connection between the personal and the political. Getting to grips with the nature of this connection is, I argue, central for understanding why the attainment of feminist aims is as protracted as it is.