Research interests
I have four main areas of research at the moment
Apophaticism: I am interested in the view, under-represented in contemporary analytic theology, but with plenty of classical precedence, that there is an interesting sense in which we do not know what God is. My book Negative Theological and Philosophical Analysis : Only the Splendour of Light (Palgrave) explores this, and locates contemporary wariness about apophaticism in certain unexamined commitments in the philosophies of language and mind.
The intersection between logic and philosophy of religion: A number of questions interest me at this intersection, concerning the role of non-classical logics in theological thought, identity, and realism and anti-realism.
Herbert McCabe: I'm an expert in the work of the Dominican theologian and philosopher Herbert McCabe, and have written about his doctrine of God, his christology and his political thought. More generally, I place myself in the tradition, fostered by McCabe, of reading Aquinas in the light of Wittgenstein's later work.
Philosophy of Psychiatry: My focus here is on questions around the efficacy of psychotherapy and the justification of psychotherapeutic theory. I am also interested in the intersection of politics and mental health.
