Prof. Douglas Burnham (h.d.burnham@staffs.ac.uk)

Professor Burnham's research is centered on Kant, Nietzsche, recent European philosophy, and the relation of philosophy and the arts. His recent work includes three books on Nietzsche (two co-written with Dr. Martin Jesinghausen of the English Department), two books on Kant, and papers on space, Heidegger and politics, philosophy's relation to literature, and a philosophical consideration of wine appreciation. Douglas regularly contributes to Ask Philosophers and to the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

Selected recent and forthcoming publications:

Wine and Aesthetics. (Co-authored with Ole-Martin Skilleas) Contracted with Wiley-Blackwell for 2012. Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy. (Co-authored with Martin Jesinghausen) Continuum, 2010. Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. (Co-authored with Martin Jesinghausen) Edinburgh University Press, 2010. 'Wine Appreciation as an Aesthetic Practice'. (Co-authored with Ole-Martin Skilleas) In The World of Fine Wine, Issue 25, 2009. 'Philosophy and Literature' (Co-authored with Melanie Ebdon) commissioned for The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. Continuum, 2009. 'The Phenomenology of Spirits' (Co-authored with Ole-Martin Skilleas) in Whiskey and Philosophy. Blackwell, 2009. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide. (Co-authored with Harvey Young.) Edinburgh University Press. 2007. Reading Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil. Acumen, 2006. 'You'll Never Drink Alone: Wine Appreciation as an Aesthetic Practice' (Co-authored with Ole-Martin Skilleas) in Philosophy and Wine. Allhof, Fritz, ed. Blackwell, 2007. 'Heidegger, Kant and 'Dirty' Politics', commissioned for European Journal of Political Theory, special edition on 'Heidegger as a Political Thinker. Issue 1, 2006. 'Time as Chaos: Nietzsche and Thomas Mann in the Mountains', in Proteus: The Language of Metamorphosis. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2005. Kant's Philosophies of Judgement. Edinburgh University Press/ Columbia University Press, 2004. The Poetics of Transubstantiation, co-editor. Ashgate, 2004. 'King Lear, Narrating and Surprise' in The Yearbook of English Studies. Vol. 30, 2000. Modern Humanities Research Association. An Introduction to Kant's Critique of Judgement. Edinburgh University Press/ Columbia University Press, 2000.

Dr David Webb (d.a.webb@staffs.ac.uk)

Dr Webb's interests are mainly in recent and contemporary European philosophy, and above all in the work of Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, and Jean Cavaillès. David has also written extensively on Aristotle, Heidegger and the relation between them, and on ontemporary Italian thought. He is also a highly respected translator of both Italian and French philosophy. He is currently the Secretary of the British Phenomenological Society.

Selected recent and forthcoming publications:

Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge: Science, Mathematics and Transformation. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2011. 'Thinking multiplicity without the concept: towards a democratic intellect', Cahier: Michel Serres (Éditions de l'Herne, forthcoming 2010). 'Praxis and the Time of Ethical Life in Aristotle', in Epoche, spring 2010. 'Gianni Vattimo: Hermeneutics as a Practice of Freedom', in Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder (eds) Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo SUNY Press, 2010. Heidegger: Ethics and the Practice of Ontology. Continuum, 2009. 'Heidegger: l'etica e la pratica dell'ontologia' in Heidegger, 30 anni dopo. Edizioni Pendragon, 2009. 'Ontological Difference and the Question of Politics', a dialogue co-authored with Fabio Ciaramelli, The European Journal of Political Theory, Vol 3.1 2007. 'Michel Serres on Lucretius: atomism, science and ethics', Angelaki Vol. 11, No.2, 2006. 'Heidegger et Weyl: nombre, mouvement et continuité', Noesis 2006. 'Microphysics: from Bachelard and Serres to Foucault', Angelaki Vol.10, No.3 2005. 'Cavaillès and the Historical a priori in Foucault' in Virtual Mathematics: the Logic of Difference. Clinamen Press, 2005. 'Cavaillès, Husserl and the Historicity of Science, Angelaki. Vol 8. No.3 2004. 'The Contingency of Freedom: Heidegger Reading Kant', International Studies in Philosophy Vol. 36-1 Winter 2004. 'Public Art and Relational Space' in Desirable Places. Article Press, 2004. 'Introduction' to interview with Michel Serres conducted by Peter Hallward, Angelaki. Vol 8. No.2 2003. 'On Friendship: Derrida, Foucault and the Practice of Becoming' in Research in Phenomenology. Vol 23, 2003. 'Thinking as Mortals: Heidegger and the Finitude of Philosophical Existence', Philosophy Today Vol 45 Fall, 2001. 'Continuity and Difference in Heidegger's Sophist', The Southern Journal of Philosophy. Vol XXXVIII No. 1 Spring 2000.

Dr. Helen Chapman (German romantic philosophy, recent feminist thought, philosophy and fine art). Dr. Chapman is editor of the Women's Philosophy Review.

Dr. Mike Ball (social and political theory). Dr. Ball publishes in the area of the theory of social research methods.

Dr. Graham Coulter-Smith, (fine art theory), editor of Artintelligence and author of several books on contemporary art and art theory.

Dr. Martin Jesinghausen (Nietzsche, Frankfurt School, modernist literary aesthetics). Read full profile

Dr. Barbara Kennedy (Bergson, Deleuze, philosophy and film). Author of Deleuze and Cinema (2002), and other books and articles on film, philosophy and film theory. Read full profile.

David Noble, (head of photography, and specialist in surrealism, photography and neo-platonism, and photography and the political).

Dr. Barry Taylor (Renaissance thought and culture, semiotics, literary theory and postmodernism). Read full profile