I work on post-Kantian European philosophy, which I combine with a concern for issues in contemporary metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, such as free will and the nature of habit.

Before coming to Queen's, I was a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton, London, and a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2019-20 I was a fellow at the Collegium de Lyon (a EURIAS Institute of Advanced Studies), and in 2022-23 I was a Visiting Professor at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse. I'm an Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the Mind Association.

For Oxford University Press, I'm currently writing a history of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French philosophy that focuses on the idea of freedom: Freedom and Contingency: French Philosophy, 1870-1960. I'm also working on the idea of tendency or inclination as a psychological and metaphysical category, and on the implications of this for theories of addiction.

My published monographs include Being Inclined:Felix Ravaisson's Philosophy of Habit (Oxford University Press, 2019. Reviews: NDPR, JHP, EJP, Revue Philosophique, Religion and Theology), and the Bergson in the Routledge Philosophers series (2020. Reviews: Mind, Philosophy, PQ, BJSP, Review of Metaphysics, The European Legacy, JHP, SAB). I have appeared on BBC Radio 4's In our Time concerning Bergson. The Oxford Handook of Modern French Philosophy, which I co-edited, is in press, and my edition of Ravaisson's French Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford UP) appeared earlier this year.

I currently convene the second-year undergraduate Philosophy of Science module, the third-year module on Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, and the MA module on Philosophies of Habit and Addiction.