Research

Affiliations

Visiting Researcher. Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität. Berlin (Summer, 2024).
Research Fellow. Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics. (2023-2025).
Honorary Research Fellow. Birkbeck, University of London (2023-2024).

Board Member (women) In Parenthesis Project, Durham University. Communications Officer.

UC Berkeley, California

Articles

Mary Midgley’s meta-ethics and Neo-Aristotelian naturalism. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2389863
‘Mary Midgley, Beast and Man (1978): A Re-appraisal’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy volume (2023) pages 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2278065. This article has been viewed 785 times since publication

Edited Volumes

Mary Midgley: Unpublished Works. Routledge (commissioned editor). Funded by a British Society for the History of Philosophy Scholarly Activities Award.
Mary Midgley’s Moral Philosophy and Ethics (commissioned editor). Palgrave-MacMillan Philosophers in Depth Series.

Book Chapters

‘Woman, Philosopher, Mother’, Geraldine Bedell (ed.), What Have Animals Ever Done For Us?. (London: Royal Society for the Protection of Animals, 2021).
‘Mary Midgley’, in R. Buxton and L. Whiting (eds) The Philosopher Queens: The Lives and Legacies of Philosophy’s Unsung Women (London: Unbound, 2020).
Book review: ‘Metaphysical animals: how four women brought philosophy back to life: by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, London, Chatto & Windus, 2022, 416 pp., £25.00 (hb), British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 31(6), pp. 1294–1297. (2023) doi: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2167804.

Work in Progress

‘Susan Stebbing's Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living’ (co-authored with Peter West) (under-review)
‘Was Mary Midgley a Wittgensteinian?’ book chapter for The Bloomsbury Companion to Wittgensteinian Feminism. Edited by Sandra Laugier, Isabel G. Gamero Cabrera, Jasmin Trächtler and Camille Braune.
'Mary Midgley and the Wartime Quartet on Fact and Value'. To be submitted at Philosophy Compass.
Mary Midgley’s Moral Thought, (scholarly monograph) –
- This scholarly monography will provide an academic introduction to Midgley’s moral philosophy. I provide a full exegesis of Midgley’s moral philosophy and meta-ethics; a chronological placement of Midgley’s (largely neglected) body of work alongside interlocutors (e.g., Philippa Foot, Elisabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach); responses to various possible meta-ethical criticisms (e.g., non-cognitivism, the fact-value divorce)
‘Women in Twentieth-Century Philosophy on the Nature of Philosophical Inquiry’ (co-editor, proposal stage).

Me and David Midgley at the Wartime Quartet Conference, Durham University

Sappho at the Neues Museum, Berin

British Society for the History of Philosophy. Postdoctoral Award, 2024-25
British Society for the History of Philosophy. Scholarly Activities Award, Summer 2024
Conference Funding for ‘The Moral Philosophy of Mary Midgley’ co-organised with Ian James Kidd: British Society for the History of Philosophy (£500), Analysis Trust (£150), Aristotelian Society (£450).
Institute for Philosophy funding, London-Berkeley Conference 2023, Berkeley California
Shortlisted for British Society for the History of Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023.
CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and Arts South-East England) Doctoral Training Partnership funded full-time doctoral research, October 2019-June 2023
CHASE DTP Travel Expense Grant Wartime Quartet: Significance, Legacy, Spirit (conference), Durham University (June 2023)
CHASE DTP Travel Expense Grant Wittgenstein and the Concept of the Woman conference, University of Madrid (March 2023)
CHASE DTP Travel Grant. ‘Women in the History of Philosophy – Challenging the Canon’, Croatia Libori Summer School (June 2022)
Durham University Arts and Humanities Faculty Bursary, MA funding, October 2018- September 2019

'Connecting Animal and Rational Nature: Midgley as a Critique of Foot' Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism and its Proponents Conference. Organised in collaboration with CASEP. Posted in ISME Online. https://www.macintyreanenquiry.org/events/2024/5/24/neo-aristotelian-ethical-naturalism
'Mary Midgley’s Meta-Ethics’ at Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics Conference. (April 2024).
‘Mary Midgley and Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism’ British Society of the History of Philosophy Annual Conference (April 2024).
*‘Midgley’s on ethics, humans and other animals’ Keele University Philosophy Department. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series (March 2024).
‘Mary Midgley and Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism’. Nottingham History of Philosophy Research Cluster. (October 2023)

‘Is Mary Midgley an ethical naturalist?’(poster) Wartime Quartet: Significance, Legacy, Spirit (conference), Durham University (June 2023).
‘Addressing Mary Midgley’s Scholarly Neglect’, The London-Berkeley Conference, Berkeley, California (May 2023)
‘Perspectives on Life Forms: Was Mary Midgley a Wittgensteinian?’Wittgenstein and the Concept of the Woman conference, University of Madrid (March 2023).
‘Combating the Exclusion of Midgley: The History of Philosophy as a Conversation’ Birkbeck Postgraduate Research Seminar (November 2022).
‘Women in the History of 20th Century Philosophy’ University of Oxford’s Postgraduate Society on Women in the History of Philosophy (November 2021).
‘On The Exclusion of Mary Midgley from Dominant Narratives’ Extending New Narratives, at International Association of Women Philosophers (July 2021).
‘Delimiting the Ethical Domain: Midgley as a Supplement to Foot’ British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP) annual conference (April 2021).
‘Naturalism and World-Oriented: Midgley as a Supplement to Foot’ at British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BPPA). (April 2021)
‘What Is Philosophy For? Mary Midgley, (presented by Ellie Robson)’, Cambridge Minorities and Philosophy (May 2020).
‘Instincts and Why they Matter’, 100 Years On: Mary Midgley Memorial Conference. (September 2019).

Conference organiser: Mary Midgley's Moral Philosophy. Nottingham University. July 16-17 2024. https://philevents.org/event/show/122298
Conference organiser: Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism and its Proponents. Joint conference at the International Institute for MacIntyrean Inquiry and CASEP. 24th May 2024. https://www.macintyreanenquiry.org/events/2024/5/24/neo-aristotelian-ethical-naturalism.
Chair at the 97th Joint Session of The Aristotelian Society and The Mind Association Conference (7-9th July).
Committee member of Birkbeck, Minorities and Philosophy Group (2019-2023).
(women) In Parenthesis Project:
- Board Member (2024-). Communications Officer.
- Co-curator of New Undergraduate Reading List, (women) In Parenthesis Project.
- Research assistant on the (women) In Parenthesis Project (October 2018-19).
  - This included coordinating an (women) In Parenthesis Postgraduate Reading Group (2018-2019), launching a reading group website, visiting, researching, and photographing items from the Mary Midgley Archive. Writing explanatory pieces for the (women) In Parenthesis Website.
- Coordinator of (women) In Parenthesis Undergraduate reading group (2017-18).
‘Open and Archives’ session at Durham University Book Festival, Session at the Mary and Geoff Midgley Archives, coordinator (alongside Andrew Gray) Palace Green Library, Durham. (October 2019).