The University of Sheffield

Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy

About

My PhD thesis focuses on Karl Marx's vision of a post-capitalist society—a vision that is potent, but also fragmentary and opaque. It clarifies and elucidates the idea of a society of freely associating, mutually producing individuals, and argues that a Hegelian account of this society - specifically, the account which Marx puts forward in the concluding passage to his Notes on James Mill - can answer a number of problems facing Marx’s  more well-known accounts of communism. It also defends this account from a number of important objections, including those raised by Richard Arneson, G.A.Cohen, Jon Elster and Will Kymlicka.  My broader interests are in social and political philosophy and its history, philosophical anthropology, the philosophy of history and ethics.