My main current work is a monograph defending a form of misanthropy.

I am also working on pessimism, moral and epistemic virtues and vices, mortality and illness, grief and loss, and epistemic injustice and illness.

My wider work includes comparative philosophy, especially in relation to south and east Asian philosophies, primarily Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism.

​From 2023-2029, I am a co-investigator on the Wellcome-funded project EPIC: Epistemic Injustice in Health Care, wor

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham

Education

  • 2011 
    University of Durham, PhD Philosophy

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