Staff profile
Dr Jeremy Dunham
Associate Professor / On research leave

Affiliation |
---|
Associate Professor / On research leave in the Department of Philosophy |
Biography
I am interested in issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind in early modern and nineteenth-century philosophy.
I spend a lot of my time working on forgotten figures in the history of philosophy (James Ward, Charles Renouvier, and Clarisse Coignet, to name a few), but I have recently been focusing my research on the more well known philosophers William James and Hegel. I am writing a book on William James and the relationship between his metaphysics and his pragmatism, and I hope to finish that relatively soon. I am also writing a book on habit in the history of philosophy (from Descartes to Dewey), which will no doubt take a lot longer.
Before coming to work at Durham, I held a Levehulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Chicago's Commitee on Social Thought, and an Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh.
I am also the treasurer for the British Society for the History of Philosophy: http://www.bshp.org.uk/
My Office Hours are 12.00-14.00 on Tuesdays and 13:00-14:00 on Fridays every week during term time. Please sign up using this tool https://open-tower.com/s/Dunham
Research interests
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Habit
- Idealism
- Nineteenth-Century French Philosophy
- Pragmatism
- William James