The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man (2016)
Book

Frequently referred to as the 'French Kant', Maine de Biran was dubbed the greatest French metaphysician since Descartes by Henri Bergson. His philosophical vocabulary and key concepts still play an undeniably central role in contemporary continen... Read More about The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man.

Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics (2016)
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Jan Patočka, perhaps more so than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, managed to combine intense philosophical insight with a farsighted analysis of the idea and challenges facing Europe as a historical, cultural and political signifier.... Read More about Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics.

European institutions? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The British Society for Phenomenology. The aim of this article is to sketch a phenomenological theory of political institutions and to apply it to some objections and questions raised by Pierre Manent about the project of the European Union an... Read More about European institutions?.

Deconstructing “real” women: Young women's readings of advertising images of “plus-size” models in the UK (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Critical feminist researchers and others have amply elucidated the perniciousness of contemporary Western beauty ideals and, particularly, the near-ubiquitous idealisations of slenderness. In this context, the advent of... Read More about Deconstructing “real” women: Young women's readings of advertising images of “plus-size” models in the UK.

Glocalization and Protestant and Catholic contestations in the Brazilian religious economy (2016)
Book Chapter

Bridging the gap - An evaluation of the Lighthouse integrated victim witness care program (2016)
Report

The final project report for the Lighthouse integrated victim witness care program evaluation.

Biologism and supercivilisation (2016)
Book Chapter

Towards the end of one of his last texts, “The Schema of History” (Das Geschichtsschema, written in German between 1975 and 1976), Patočka poses a question that orients much of his late thought on the concepts of “post-Europe,” the “solidarity of the... Read More about Biologism and supercivilisation.

Sexual harm in virtual worlds (2016)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. An overview of the context of sexual harm in virtual worlds and developments in criminal justice responses.

Handbook of Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions and Allegiance (2016)
Book

An sole edited volume which considers various dimensions of contemporary Christianity from a global perspective, calling on international experts in various specialisms and disciplines.

Believing vaguely: Religious socialization and Christian beliefs in Britain (2015)
Journal Article

Sociological research focusing on religion has customarily placed processes of socialization at the core of understanding not only individual religious identification, but also the broad aggregate transmission and survival of a generalised religious... Read More about Believing vaguely: Religious socialization and Christian beliefs in Britain.

Faith and religion (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter investigates the impact of LGBT activist groups within the major world religions. It focuses upon a number of crucial variables which shape mobilisation and levels of success: - The views of a particular religion in the way that it con... Read More about Faith and religion.

Attitudes towards and understandings of sexual violence: A study of secondary school students and staff in Bristol (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper looking at work with secondary school students on their attitudes to sex, sexual harm and sexual harm policy.

The right to be impaired and the legacy of eugenics: A critical reading of the UN convention on ‘disability’ rights (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter traces the ongoing effects of eugenics on discourses of ‘disability’, analysing in particular the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I use the sociological methodology of grounded theory-building based on live... Read More about The right to be impaired and the legacy of eugenics: A critical reading of the UN convention on ‘disability’ rights.

Of (auto-)immune life: Derrida, Esposito, Agamben (2015)
Book Chapter

Chapter: https://www.academia.edu/3776661/Of_Auto-_Immune_Life_Derrida_Esposito_Agamben_draft_of_a_text_to_be_published_in_a_volume_entitled_Medicine_and_Society_edited_by_D._Meacham_

The subject of enhancement: Augmented capacities, extended cognition and delicate ecologies of the mind (2015)
Journal Article

This paper argues for an inflationary and capacity-relative understanding of human enhancement technology. In doing so it echoes the approach followed by Buchanan (2011a, 2011b). Particular emphasis is placed on the point that capacities themselves a... Read More about The subject of enhancement: Augmented capacities, extended cognition and delicate ecologies of the mind.

Lighthouse interim report (2015)
Report

Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity (2015)
Book

Medicine and society, new continental perspectives (Preface) (2015)
Book Chapter

Il y a du soin dans l’air: Robots soignants et environnements de soin (2015)
Journal Article

In this article we examine the possible challenges facing the use of the concept of « care » or « taking care », when the carer is an autonomous robot, what we call an « artificial medical care agent ». In other words, we ask if robots can care. Agai... Read More about Il y a du soin dans l’air: Robots soignants et environnements de soin.

Sense and life: Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of nature and evolutionary biology (2015)
Journal Article

The article addresses Merleau-Ponty's later philosophy of nature in relation to two of its central operating concepts, behaviour and latency. It then examines some contemporary arguments for an extended evolutionary synthesis from the perspective of... Read More about Sense and life: Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of nature and evolutionary biology.