Writing
“Consciousness is the Property of Dialectic”: What Hegel Taught Merleau-Ponty About Intentionality. Journal of the History of Philosophy (forthcoming). [preprint]
Dufrenne, Kant, and the Aesthetic Attitude. New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (forthcoming). [preprint]
Consciousness, Nature, and Metaphysics in Merleau-Ponty's Early Thought. Ergo, (forthcoming).
Seeing Again, for the First Time. In Aesthetic Literacy: A Book for Everyone, Volume 1. Edited by Valery Vinogradovs. Melbourne: Mont
Phenomenological Themes in Aron's Philosophy of History. Journal of the History of Philosophy 59.1 (2021): 113-143. [preprint]
The Systematic Import of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Literature. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 49.1 (2018): 1-17 [preprint]
On the Motivations for Merleau-Ponty’s Ontological Research. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26.2 (2018): 348-370 [preprint]
Sense, Language, and Ontology in Merleau-Ponty and Hyppolite. Research in Phenomenology 48.1 (2018): 92-118 [preprint]
Merleau-Ponty, Hegel, and the Task of Phenomenological Explanation. Phänomenologische Forschungen (2018) 1: 28-53
Intentionality, Constitution, and Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of ‘the Flesh.’ European Journal of Philosophy 25.3 (2017): 677-699 [preprint]
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Language (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
“Consciousness is the Property of Dialectic”: What Hegel Taught Merleau-Ponty About Intentionality. Journal of the History of Philosophy (forthcoming). [preprint]
- Argues that Merleau-Ponty's reading of Hegel’s account of experience helps him reformulate the Phenomenology's theory of intentionality and develop the key tenets that support the account of reversibility. Hegel’s absolute offers Merleau-Ponty a model for the principle that individuates the basic conditions of experience. Merleau-Ponty's debts to Hegel show that he inherits significant idealist commitments.
Dufrenne, Kant, and the Aesthetic Attitude. New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (forthcoming). [preprint]
- Reconstructs Dufrenne's phenomenological interpretation of the aesthetic attitude, and argues that it resists the charge that appeals to the aesthetic attitude are subjectivist, advances an original interpretation of Kant’s relevance for phenomenological aesthetics, and offers a plausible philosophical account of art’s objectivity and world-disclosive power.
Consciousness, Nature, and Metaphysics in Merleau-Ponty's Early Thought. Ergo, (forthcoming).
- Argues that Merleau-Ponty's account of the relation between consciousness and nature in The Structure of Behaviour, his first major work, relies on an idiosyncratic idealist interpretation of form. This challenges attempts to associate his thought with the naturalist or enactivist research program, and suggests that his work is best understood as a successor to post-Kantian philosophical currents.
Seeing Again, for the First Time. In Aesthetic Literacy: A Book for Everyone, Volume 1. Edited by Valery Vinogradovs. Melbourne: Mont
- With special attention to Merleau-Ponty's writings on Cézanne, this piece explores how works of art help us see reality anew by cultivating the imagination, and considers the metaphysical implications of the suggestion that experience has an 'imaginary' texture.
Phenomenological Themes in Aron's Philosophy of History. Journal of the History of Philosophy 59.1 (2021): 113-143. [preprint]
- Argues that Raymond Aron deploys phenomenological arguments, concepts, and methods to support his relativist philosophy of history, whose important role in his seminal Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire has been overlooked by received interpretations.
The Systematic Import of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Literature. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 49.1 (2018): 1-17 [preprint]
- Highlights some theoretical implications of Merleau-Ponty's reading of Proust and Valéry, and argues that core elements of his later thought draw on insights from these writers. This unfolds within and not outside of a phenomenological orientation.
On the Motivations for Merleau-Ponty’s Ontological Research. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26.2 (2018): 348-370 [preprint]
- Clarifies the motivations and genesis behind Merleau-Ponty's ontology in light of his analyses of dialogue and communication. Argues that this area of research offers early models of concepts and themes that would become central to his later work.
Sense, Language, and Ontology in Merleau-Ponty and Hyppolite. Research in Phenomenology 48.1 (2018): 92-118 [preprint]
- Argues for historical and conceptual links between Jean Hyppolite's Hegel-interpretation and Merleau-Ponty's view of ontology and phenomenological signification, and identifies affinities between phenomenology and Hyppolite's thought.
Merleau-Ponty, Hegel, and the Task of Phenomenological Explanation. Phänomenologische Forschungen (2018) 1: 28-53
- Explores the structure and methodological assumptions behind Merleau-Ponty's approach to the explanation of lived experience.
Intentionality, Constitution, and Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of ‘the Flesh.’ European Journal of Philosophy 25.3 (2017): 677-699 [preprint]
- Argues that the concept of 'flesh' (la chair) aims (among other things) to offer a reformulated account of intentionality (object-directedness) and constitution (meaning-formation), which reveals its phenomenological character and continuity with Merleau-Ponty's earlier work.
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Language (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
- This book offers a comprehensive overview of Merleau-Ponty's engagement with the philosophy of language. It details his understanding of the relation between language and perception, and explores its implications for understanding the structures of conscious experience and the conditions that make our experience of the world coherent. It argues that the phenomenology of language is essential for understanding Merleau-Ponty's philosophical development, and for grasping the meaning and motivations behind some of his most celebrated philosophical contributions. It also contends that reflections on language should be central to the phenomenological project and to phenomenological interpretations of experience.