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Overview
My philosophical work is mostly about interpersonal relations and the ways that people matter to one another. Through this lens, my interests span ethics, aesthetics, the philosophy of love and friendship, feminism, and several figures in the history of philosophy, principally, Weil, Buber, Levinas, Aristotle, Kant and Marx.
Publication
2024
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2024. Varieties of second-personal reason. Erkenntnis (10.1007/s10670-024-00798-4)
2023
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2023. The aesthetics of coming to know someone. Philosophical Studies 180(5-6), pp. 1675-1690. (10.1007/s11098-023-01941-7)
- Lewis, J. H. P. and Thornton, S. 2023. Levinas and finite freedom. In: Saunders, J. ed. Freedom after Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 175-190.
2022
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2022. The musicality of speech. Philosophers' Imprint 22, article number: 21. (10.3998/phimp.643)
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2022. Relationality without obligation. Analysis 82(2), pp. 238-246. (10.1093/analys/anab072)
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2022. Questions about sex with socialist answers: The right to sex: feminism in the twenty-first century, by Amia Srinivasan, London, Bloomsbury [Book Review]. Philosophical Psychology 35(7), pp. 1102-1105. (10.1080/09515089.2022.2050199)
2019
- Lewis, J. H. P. and Stern, R. 2019. Commanding, giving, vulnerable: what is the normative standing of the other in levinas?. In: Fagenblat, M. and Erdur, M. eds. Levinas and Analytic Philosophy. Routledge, pp. 101-122., (10.4324/9780429462580-5)
- Lewis, J. H. 2019. The moral nexus, by R. Jay Wallace. [Book Review]. European Journal of Philosophy 27(4), pp. 1093-1096. (10.1111/ejop.12506)
2018
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2018. The discretionary normativity of requests. Philosophers' Imprint 18(20), pp. 1-16.
Articles
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2024. Varieties of second-personal reason. Erkenntnis (10.1007/s10670-024-00798-4)
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2023. The aesthetics of coming to know someone. Philosophical Studies 180(5-6), pp. 1675-1690. (10.1007/s11098-023-01941-7)
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2022. The musicality of speech. Philosophers' Imprint 22, article number: 21. (10.3998/phimp.643)
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2022. Relationality without obligation. Analysis 82(2), pp. 238-246. (10.1093/analys/anab072)
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2022. Questions about sex with socialist answers: The right to sex: feminism in the twenty-first century, by Amia Srinivasan, London, Bloomsbury [Book Review]. Philosophical Psychology 35(7), pp. 1102-1105. (10.1080/09515089.2022.2050199)
- Lewis, J. H. 2019. The moral nexus, by R. Jay Wallace. [Book Review]. European Journal of Philosophy 27(4), pp. 1093-1096. (10.1111/ejop.12506)
- Lewis, J. H. P. 2018. The discretionary normativity of requests. Philosophers' Imprint 18(20), pp. 1-16.
Book sections
- Lewis, J. H. P. and Thornton, S. 2023. Levinas and finite freedom. In: Saunders, J. ed. Freedom after Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 175-190.
- Lewis, J. H. P. and Stern, R. 2019. Commanding, giving, vulnerable: what is the normative standing of the other in levinas?. In: Fagenblat, M. and Erdur, M. eds. Levinas and Analytic Philosophy. Routledge, pp. 101-122., (10.4324/9780429462580-5)
Teaching
This year I am convening the following two modules:
- Reasons and Relationships. This is a third-year undergraduate module covering three themes in contemporary social philosophy: alienation, relational equality and grief.
- Contemporary Ethical Theory, for second year undergraduates.
Biography
Prior to joining Cardiff University, I held first a Teaching Fellowship and then a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Birmingham. I have held visiting research positions at Yale University, Uppsala University, and the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen.
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PhD in Philosophy, University of Sheffield
MA Philosophy, UCL
BA Politics with Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professional memberships
British Philosophical Association
British Society for Aesthetics
Aristotelian Society
Committees and reviewing
Student Experience Committee
Contact Details
+44 29208 76617
John Percival Building, Room 1.27, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU