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I’m an academic philosopher. From September 2026 I’ll be a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool.
My first book, Infinitely Full of Hope, on hope and fatherhood, was published by Repeater in 2021. My second book, defending an idiosyncratic form of humanistic ethics, has just been published by Bloomsbury. It’s called Humanism and the Anthropocene although if I hadn’t had to change the title for SEO reasons it would be called Mortal Thoughts. I’m currently developing a project on food justice, as well as beginning to write a book on Adornoian ethical negativism (The Joy of Negativism: Towards a Neo-Adornoian Ethics).
I’ve published a lot on Adorno, and am generally interested in the Frankfurt School (first generation only), philosophy from Kant to Marx, and the ‘Oxford Quartet’ (Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, Murdoch). I’m also interested in the affective dimensions of political activism, especially in the context of the climate crisis.
I did my PhD at Essex. I taught at Essex for a bit before churning through positions at Warwick, Hull, and Durham. I first came to Liverpool in 2023 to teach in the Philosophy department.
I live in Gateshead, near Newcastle, because I like maintaining an impractical commute.
