The Architecture of Personal Dispositions
This project will bring together philosophers and psychologists working on personality and character traits to discuss the structures of these personal dispositions and their relations with other mental items such as attitudes, values, habits, and automatic responses.
Next workshop is at Cardiff University on 4-5 July 2011 <full details of this workshop>.
The first workshop was held at the Sorbonne on 22-23 September 2010 <full details>.
The Social Epistemology of Personal Dispositions
Still in very early stages, this interdisplinary research project will investigate the attribution of personality and character traits.
It will be concerned with both descriptive and normative aspects of these topics and will involve dialogue with experimental psychology, literary theory, and jurisprudence.
More information will be posted here when it becomes available.
RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS
Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism (an AHRC project)
Book of 14 original exegetical and critical papers on Sartre's philosophical writings up to 1950, published by Routledge in August 2010. (For more details, follow the Books link at the top of this page.)
Project involved three workshops in 2009, at which drafts of the papers were discussed. The book was launched with a conference at Sartre's alma mater, École Normale Superiéure, in Paris on 20-21 September 2010 <full details of the conference>.
AHRC Culture and the Mind Project
I was an invited participant in the Norms and Moral Psychology theme of this project based at University of Sheffield, which led to a collaborative experimental investigatio into the folk classification of actions as intentional or otherwise. Our paper on this topic, 'Intentional Side-Effects of Action', is now available to download from my Papers page (see navigation at top) <full details of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project>.
