Papers (selected)

  • “Heidegger, the Rules of Logic, and the Fly Bottle of the Hard-Nosed Analytic Philosopher.” The International Journal of Philosophical Studies, special issue on Heidegger & Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming).
  • “Do We Feel Our Existence?” Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, special issue on The Experience of Being and Nothingness (forthcoming).
  • “The Origin of Painting: Bacon and Heidegger on Appearance.” In Francis Bacon Studies V. London: Thames & Hudson, 2025.
  • “Why Nature Matters: The Example of Houseplants, Real and Fake.” Ikaros: Om människan och vetenskapen (translated into Swedish, 2024).
  • “The ‘Nothing’ in Heidegger’s Concept of Anxiety: From Groundlessness to Presence.” Philosophical Psychology 36, no. 8 (2023): 1543–1558.
  • “Seeing the Stove as World: Significance (Bedeutung) in the Early Wittgenstein.” Philosophical Investigations 42, no. 1 (2018): 40–60.
  • “Can There Be ‘Happiness’ in Psychoanalysis?: Lacan with Sophocles.” College Literature, Special Issue on Happiness and Hedonism. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
  • “What Guides Moral Consideration?: Wittgenstein and Diamond on Imagination and Animal Ethics.” Journal of Animal Ethics 6 (Spring 2016). University of Illinois Press.
  • “The Notion of Happiness in Early Wittgenstein: Towards a Non-Contentful Account of Happiness.” South African Journal of Philosophy 33, no. 4 (2014).
  • “Objects in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: Towards the Application of Logic.” EPEKEINA: International Journal of Ontology, History and Critics 5, no. 2 (2014).

Book Chapters

  • “Wittgenstein on Heidegger on the Nothing.” In Early Analytic Philosophy: Origins and Transformations, edited by James F. Conant and Gilad Nir. London and New York: Routledge, 2025.
  • “When Thinking Goes Off Rails: From Bad Thinking to Bad Action (Diamond, Murdoch, Arendt).” In Cora Diamond on Ethics, edited by M. Balaska. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Philosophers in Depth series.
  • “Wittgenstein and Diamond on Meaning and Experience: From Groundlessness to Creativity.” In Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language, edited by S. Greve and J. Macha. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Reviews

  • Review of Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective, by D. Black, Routledge (2024), for Philosophical Psychology
  • Review of Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going on to Ethics, by C. Diamond, Harvard University Press (2019), for Philosophical Investigations
  • Review of the British Wittgenstein Society lecture, ”The Interface between Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Therapy and the Empirical Psychotherapies”, by J. Heaton, British Wittgenstein Society website

Presented Papers (selected)

  • The Logos of Nature: Heidegger’s Aristotle and its consequences on Thompson’s Natural-Historical Judgments, Welsh Philosophical Society, Annual Meeting 2025.
  • Is an intrinsic, non-relative generality restricted to the organism? Heidegger and Thompson, University of Stuttgart, Philosophy research seminar, January 2025.
  • The intentionality of anxiety and its epistemic gains, Boston College, “Psychology and the Other” Conference, July 2024.
  • How nature matters, Åbo Akademi University, Philosophy Research Seminar, February 2024.
  • Real or Replica: The Essence of Nature and its Significance for our Lives, BICAR Institute and Editions JOJO Mumbai, July 2023.
  • Wonder: what can we learn from it?, invited lecture, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) seminar series, UCL, June 2023.
  • Cora Diamond, Iris Murdoch, and Hannah Arendt on Ethics, keynote presentation, conference “Wittgenstein and the Concept of ‘Woman’,” Complutense University of Madrid, Philosophy Department, March 2023.
  • The paradox of nothing, invited lecture, research seminar, University of Nottingham, Philosophy Department, March 2021.
  • From dispossessed words to lived words: Cavell and Freud, Workshop ‘Ethics and Experience, Widening Perspectives’, Abo Academi University, April 2019.
  • Do Humans Think?, Workshop on Animal Minds and Morals, University of Hertfordshire, UK, April 2019
  • From Humpty Dumpty talk to full speech (parole pleine): is there an account of authenticity in Lacan’s work?, invited lecture, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2019.
  • Evil’s Thinking, University of Hertfordshire, Public Lecture, Philosophy department, February 2019.
  • Photographing the indescribable (and describing the un-photographable), Photography MA research workshop, Bournemouth Arts University, November 2018.
  • ‘Meaning and Significance in the Early Wittgenstein’, UEA Wittgenstein Workshop, UK, 14 February 2018.
  • Beauty and expression, Nordic Society of Aesthetics’ Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, 8-10 June 2017.
  • The talking cure and meaning what we say : Cavell and Freud, Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis, St John’s College, University of Oxford, 6 February 2017.
  • The moral implications of meaning-blindness, London Wittgenstein reading group, 18 December 2015.
  • Aspect perception and aspect blindness: understanding autism through Wittgenstein’s philosophy of psychology, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College London, Continuing Professional Development peer group ‘Mental Health in Learning Disabilities’, invited speaker, 15 December 2015.
  • Listening to Beethoven and having a moral attitude: the relation between ethics and aesthetics, Annual conference of the Dutch Association of Aesthetics, Institute of philosophy, Leuven, Belgium, 27-28 February 2015.
  • Autobiography in Philosophy: why philosophy is not teachable, International Conference ‘Teaching innovation in Philosophy’, Faculty of Philosophy, Madrid, Spain, 5-7 November 2014.
  • Objects in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: from ontology to everyday language, Workshop ‘Objects of all kinds’, Lille, France, 22-24 May 2014.
  • Objects and substance in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, International conference ‘Understanding Matter’, Palermo, Sicily, 10 April 2014.
  • Le niveau de signification dans le Tractatus : une approche différente, Seminar ‘Langage et vie’ , université de Paris 8-St Denis / MSH Paris Nord, Antonia Soulez en coordination avec Arild Utaker, February 2014.
  • The Running-up-against Paradox: How Can we Place it in Language?, Workshop ‘Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language’, The Wittgenstein Archives, University of Bergen, Norway, 14 June 2013