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James H.P. Lewis

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​I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham. 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 organised as part of the project will be held in Birmingham in June 2022. All the information about the workshop, including a link for registration, can be found here.


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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Publications

Journal Articles
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'Relationality Without Obligation', (forthcoming) Analysis

'The Discretionary Normativity of Requests', 2018. Philosophers' Imprint, 18(20)

Book Chapters
'Levinas and Finite Freedom', Co-Authored with Simon Thornton. In J. Saunders ed. (forthcoming) Freedom After Kant, London: Bloomsbury

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Commanding, Giving, Vulnerable: What is the Normative Standing of the Other in Levinas?', 2019. Co-authored with Robert Stern. In M. Fagenblat ed., Levinas and Analytic Philosophy: Metaethics, Personal Identity, and the Moral Life, London: Routledge

Book Reviews
'Questions About Sex with Socialist Answers', (forthcoming) Philosophical Psychology

Review of R. Jay Wallace 'The Moral Nexus', 2019. European Journal of Philosophy​, 27(4), pp. 1093-1096

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Some information about work of mine that is currently in progress can be found here.

I have held Teaching Fellowships at Sheffield and Birmingham and have experience lecturing across a range of topics including Early Modern philosophy, Nietzsche, Feminist Philosophy, and Political philosophy.

My profile page on Birmingham University's website is here, and my Philpeople profile is here.
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