James H.P. Lewis

Philosophy

​I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham. In September, I will take up a lectureship at Cardiff University.

My philosophical interests are generally connected to interpersonal relations, particularly the ways that people matter to one another. At the moment I am pursuing a project about the aesthetic dimension of interpersonal life. You can read a summary of that project here, or listen to a podcast on which I recently discussed some of the project here.

A workshop on the topic of the project - philosophy related to interpersonal relations - will be held in Birmingham in June 2023. This is a successor to the successful event that I organised together with James Laing in June 2022.

With this theme of interpersonal relations at the centre, there are a range of areas of philosophy that I am interested in. They include metaethics (especially theories of practical reasoning, and moral epistemology), philosophy of love and friendship, the connections between ethics and aesthetics, and several historical figures, most prominently: Martin Buber, Simone Weil, Emmanuel Levinas and J.G. Fichte.

Email: jhplewis@gmail.com
Pronouns: he, him​

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