Schopenhauer; Nietzsche; Hegel; Kant; History of Aesthetics, Existentialism, Buddhism

PhD Supervision

2008: David Nickless, Interpreting References to the Subject in Philosophical Writings

2006: Tony Stroobant, A Psychoanalytic Study of Anti-Semitism (with Philip Culbertson, School of Theology)

2005: Geoffey Roche, An Unblinking Gaze (with Stefano Franchi)

Associate Professor Robert Wicks's Postgraduate Supervision

"Arthur Schopenhauer's Bronze Buddha:  Neither Tibetan, nor Thai, but Shan" 
Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch (in press)

"Using Artistic Masterpieces as Philosophical Examples:  The Case of Las Meninas" 
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , Vol. 68, No. 3 (Summer 2010), pp. 259-272.

"Arthur Schopenhauer"  (on religion)
History of Western Philosophy of Religion, 5 Vols., Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Philosophy & Religion, eds. Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis, Chesham UK, Acumen, 2009, pp. 81-93.

"19th and 20th Century Continental Aesthetics"
(introductory essay for the volume)
A Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd, ed., eds David Cooper, Stephen Davies, Kathleen Higgins, Robert Hopkins and Robert Stecker. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp, 51-61.

"Michel Foucault" (on his aesthetics)
A Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd, ed., eds David Cooper, Stephen Davies, Kathleen Higgins, Robert Hopkins and Robert Stecker. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp. 293-97.

Review of Rachel Zuckert, Kant on Beauty and Biology. Cambridge, 2007, in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 4 (2009), pp. 888-91.

Review of Aaron Ridley, Nietzsche on Art. Routledge, 2007, in Mind, Vol. 118, No. 469 (January 2009), pp. 204-7.

"Natural Beauty and Optimism in Schopenhauer's Aesthetics"
European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 2 (August 2008), pp. 273-291.

Schopenhauer (Blackwell, 2008, 192pp)

Kant on Judgment (Routledge, 2007, 312pp.)
 

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