Post:	Reader in Philosophy
Other posts:	Director of Student Support (Hahp School)
Location:	Arts A A114
Email:	P.Davies@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	2158
UK:	(01273) 606755 ext. 2158
International:	+44 1273 606755 ext. 2158

Research

Kantian and post-Kantian European Philosophy; Phenomenology; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Literature; Philosophy of Religion

Teaching

This term I am teaching the 3rd year option Language, Truth, and Literature. I am also giving the lectures for the new 1st year core course Reason and Experience. I am convening the Literature and Philosophy MA programme while Katerina Deligiorgi is on leave. I have supervised research on the following topics: Heidegger and psychologism; Heidegger on art and language; Nietzsche's critical treatment of art and science; a comparative study of Hegel and Levinas; the status and use of examples in Kant's moral philosophy; Kant's aesthetics.

Publications

Recent publications include: 'Asymmetry and Transcendence: On Scepticism and 1st Philosophy' in Research in Phenomenology, Vol.35, 2006; 'Withholding Evidence: Phenomenology and Secrecy' in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol VI, 2007, 'This Contradiction' in Futures (ed. Richard Rand) Stanford University Press, 2001. 'Kant's Joke: On continuing to use the word "God"' in The Matter of Critique: Readings in Kant's Philosophy (eds Andrea Rehberg and Rachel Jones), Manchester, Clinamen Press, 2000) 'From Constructive Philosophy to Philosophical Quietism' in Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology (JBSP), Vol, 2000 (along with Mcdowell's response). 'Sincerity and the End of Theodicy: Three Remarks on Kant and Levinas' in The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (eds Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley), CUP, 2002; 'Kafka's Lesson, Blanchot's Itinerary' in Parallax, Vol 39, 2006; 'A Poem and Its Context' in Textual Practice, Summer 2008.