Research

My work examines issues of subjectivity and affectivity in the history of philosophy with particular emphasis on the work of Henri Bergson and phenomenology. You can find some of my work below. You can also find more of my work on my Academia.edu page.

Publications

Books

2026 Bergson and Affect: Intensity, Virtuality, & The Body, Edinburgh University Press. In press, March 2026 https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-bergson-and-affect.html

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2025 “Affectivity, Continuity, & Separation: A Commentary on Oele’s E-Co-Affectivity” in Journal of Philosophy of Emotion

2022 “Affect, Utility, and Self-Constitution. A Bergsonian Reading of Whitehead and Levinas” Bergsoniana Vol 1 Issue 2: DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/bergsoniana.713

2017 “Bergson and Levinas on the Genealogy of Mind.” Journal for The British Society of Phenomenology, Vol 48 Issue 4: 304-318 DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00071773.2017.1299960

Chapters in Books

“The Concept of Substitution in Bergson and Levinas” In The Bergsonian Mind, edited by Mark Sinclair, Routledge DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429020735

“Authenticity, Emotion, and the Ontology of Desire” In Hans Jonas: Desafios De Uma Filosofia Para O Futuro. Edited by Grégori De Souza, Miguel Bugalski, and Thiago Vasconcelos, Curitiba, Brazil: Editora CRV Ltda.

“Causalidad” In Vocabulário Hans Jonas, edited by Eric Pommier and Jelson Oliveira, Caxias Do Sul: Editoria Caxias Do Sul

Book Reviews

Review of Bergson by Mark Sinclair, Société des Amis de Bergson, Feb 2020 DOI: https://bergson.hypotheses.org/1707

Public Scholarship

“Could the Axis Have Won the War?” In Man In The High Castle and Philosophy, edited by Bruce Krajewski and Joshua Heter, 83-94. Chicago: Open Court Publishing

Talks

Invited Speaker

2025 “The Influence of French Spiritualism on the Foundation of Phenomenology” Seminario Interno de la Facultad de Filosofía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Santiago, Chile.

2022 “Echoes and Imperatives of Nature: The Phenomenology of Jonas and Lingis” VI Hans Jonas Colloquium. Paraná, Brazil.

2021  “Authenticity, Emotion, and the Ontology of Desire” II Jornada Hans Jonas, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil

2016 “Bergson and Levinas on the Genealogy of Mind” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

Presentations

2024  “On The Living Body: From Maine de Biran to Phenomenology” French and Francophone Philosophy Today, LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

2022  “Subjectivity, Affect, and Biology: Bergson’s influence on Levinasian Ethics” Summer Conference in Continental Ethics, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.

2020  “Affect and Self-Constitution: A Bergsonian Reading of Levinas and Whitehead” 2020 Global Bergsonism Research Project, Upenn (Webinar), USA

2019 “Consciousness, Desire, & The Body: Bergson and Jonas” New York Phenomenology Workshop, New York, NY, USA

2012  “Anarchism and the Problem of Anonymous Power” Democracy and the Market Conference, KUL, Leuven, Belgium

2010  “Tools, Trauma, Artifacts, & Heidegger’s God” The idea of God in the History of Phenomenology, KUL, Leuven, Belgium

Works in Progress

Notions of Subjectivity in French Spiritualism: On Virtuality and Affectivity Complementing my work on Bergson, this paper examines the decisive role played by affectivity in the development of the French Spiritualist tradition. It explores the meaning and role given to affectivity by Maine de Biran in his development of the idea of the living body (corps propre) as well as how this notion evolved throughout the work of Ravaisson and Bergson.