PhD in Philosophy student

Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds

Interests

Philosophy of language, aesthetics, philosophical psychology.

Talks

1) "A Defence of a Relevant Inappropriateness Theory of Verbal Irony", PG Seminar, University of Leeds, 31 October 2008.
2) "Geoffrey Madell on personal identity and the first person perspective", PG Seminar, University of Leeds, 2 May 2008.
2) "Metaphor and levels of abstraction: a Kantian perspective", A Figure of Speech: Conference on Metaphor, University of Latvia, Riga, 16-18 December 2007;
3) "Metaphor and levels of abstraction: a Kantian perspective", PG Seminar, University of Leeds, Leeds, 5 December 2007;


Intuition without rationality is bad philosophy, rationality without intuition is not even philosophy.