I am a philosopher. I completed a Ph.D. at the University of Southampton, where I teach. I work for The Aristotelian Society. I am also the founder of The Human Front.
I work for the NHS. I am currently employed by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust as a Senior Clinical Scientist.
I recently entered the world of poetry, albeit as a complete novice.
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James
I am a Teaching Assistant at the University of Southampton. I have taught at the University since 2022.
I am the Administrator / Web Editor at The Aristotelian Society. I started in this role in July 2026.
I am the AI Ethics Lead in Clinical Scientific Computing at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. I started in this role in February 2026.
I completed a Ph.D. at the University of Southampton in November 2025. I investigated the connection between grounding and causation under the supervision of Naomi Thompson, Lee Walters, and Tuomas Tahko. My project was funded by the SWW DTP. During this time I was the Lex Academic Philosophy Scholar and the Administrator for The Mind Association.
Thesis: ‘Grounding and Causation’.
Prior to studying for my Ph.D. I obtained a master’s degree in philosophy (M.A.) at Birkbeck, University of London, graduating in 2020 with a distinction. My dissertation is titled ‘Top-Down Causation in the Animal Kingdom’ and was completed under the supervision of Ben Springett.
In 2018 I completed a Cert.H.E. in metaphysics at Birkbeck, University of London.
See here.
2026-10-01: Open Minds XIX, Manchester, ‘Analogy and Determination’
2026-08-26: The 12th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Madrid, ‘Analogy and Determination’
2026-07-09: The 2026 Joint Session, Reading, ‘Analogy and Determination’
2025-09-01: The 6th International Congress of Philosophy, Lisbon, ‘The Single-Genus View of Grounding and Causation’
2025-07-13: The 2025 Joint Session, Glasgow, ‘The Aristotelian Unity of Causation’
2024-11-19: Philosophy Students’ Symposium, Maribor, ‘The Aristotelian Unity of Causation’
2024-09-18: Open Minds XVII, Manchester, ‘Grounding and Causation: A Metaphysical Analogy’
2024-07-13: The 2024 Joint Session, Birmingham, ‘Grounding and Causation: A Metaphysical Analogy’
2024-06-25: Issues on the (Im)possible X, Bratislava, ‘Grounding and Causation’
2024-03-04: Grounding and Metaphysical Explanation Work-in-Progress, online, ‘Grounding and Causation: A Metaphysical Analogy’
2023-12-06: Explanation and Understanding, Belgrade, ‘A Unified Model of Metaphysical and Causal Explanation’
I am the co-founder of the Grounding and Metaphysical Explanation group.
The Human Front is a philosophy website that covers topics in art, ethics, existentialism, film, metaphysics, science, and society and features interviews with real philosophers.
This is an evolving project that embodies my overflowing interest in philosophy and that is made possible by our wonderful team and contributors as well as the subjects of my interviews.
Common themes of my own writing include freedom, meaning, and identity. How questions are interpreted is left to the reader. In an attempt to make sense of them I refer to illustrious fiction and cinema.