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Dr Jeremy Dunham

Associate Professor / Director of Research including Ethics/ Impact Officer


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Associate Professor / Director of Research including Ethics/ Impact Officer 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

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