University of Exeter, Politics, Faculty Member

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University of Exeter, Politics and Philosophy, Faculty Member
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Research Interests:
Philosophy, Political Theory, Philosophy of Biology, Ethics, Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, and 64 moreCapability Approach, John Dewey, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Phenomenology, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Enactivism, Quality of life, Baruch Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Aristotle, Genetics, Pragmatism, Evolutionary Biology, Critical Theory, Freedom, CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMNET, Existentialism, Moral Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Developmental Psychology, Education, Philosophy of Action, Autopoiesis, Autonomy, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Basic Income, Socialism, Capitalism, Ideology, Political Ideology, History of Ideas, History of Political Ideas, Anarchism, Complexity Theory, Aristotle/Phronesis/Praxis, Poiesis, Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Music, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Lewontin, Biopolitics, Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem, Philosophy of Science, Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics, Ontology, Hegel, Virtue Ethics, Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Nature, Human nature, Philosophies of Human Nature, Essentialism, Genetic essentialism, Happiness and Well Being, Meaning of Life, and Animal Ethics edit
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My research interests lie at the intersection of ethics, political thought, and philosophy of nature.edit
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Papers

Griffiths, J. O. (2021) ‘Bioethics, the Ontology of Life, and the Hermeneutics of Biology’, in Ferrarello, Susi (ed.) Phenomenology of Bioethics: Technoethics and Lived Experience (Springer Nature), pp. 1-21

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65613-3

Publication Date: 2021

Publication Name: Phenomenology of Bioethics: Technoethics and Lived Experience

Research Interests:
Genetics, Philosophy of Biology, Bioethics, Hermeneutics, and Phenomenology

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Final draft of review essay for Global Discourse symposium on Lorraine Daston’s Against Nature (2019). Published version:... more

Final draft of review essay for Global Discourse symposium on Lorraine Daston’s Against Nature (2019). Published version: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bup/gd/2021/00000011/f0020001/art00030;jsessionid=1g6e00r16apa5.x-ic-live-02

Cite: Griffiths, J. O. (2021) ‘Out of Order: Lorraine Daston on Being ‘Against Nature’’. Global Discourse, Vol. 11 (Nos. 1–2), pp. 289–294

Publication Date: 2021

Publication Name: Global Discourse

Research Interests:
Meta-Ethics, Philosophical Anthropology, Normativity, Dehumanization, Philosophy of Nature, and 2 moreNaturalistic Fallacy and Cultural Politics of Nature and the Environment

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Review essay - on Gillian Barker (2015) 'Beyond Biofatalism', and Maurizio Meloni (2016) 'Political Biology'. Final published version: Contemporary Political Theory (2017) Vol. 16 (4), 541–548... more

Review essay - on Gillian Barker (2015) 'Beyond Biofatalism', and Maurizio Meloni (2016) 'Political Biology'.

Final published version: Contemporary Political Theory (2017) Vol. 16 (4), 541–548
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-016-0080-0

Publication Date: 2017

Publication Name: Contemporary Political Theory

Research Interests:
Evolutionary Psychology, Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Bioethics, and 5 morePolitical Theory, History of Science, History and Philosophy of Biology, Human nature, and Eugenics

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Paper presented at the 2016 conference of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), ‘Capability and Diversity in a Global Society’,
1-3 Sept, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests:
Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Plasticity, Diversity, Essentialism, and 5 moreCapability Approach, Autonomy, Perfectionism, Theory of the good life (Philosophy), and Human flourishing

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Paper presented at workshop ‘Capabilities and Pragmatism: Between Social Sciences and Social Philosophy’
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, April 21-22, 2016