Ian James
Kidd
Department
of Philosophy
Durham
University
Email:
i.j.kidd@durham.ac.uk
I am a postdoctoral
researcher at the Department of
Philosophy at Durham University. My research focuses on the interaction of
science, religion, and ethics, with a specific interest in how we can determine
the epistemic limits of the sciences and the implications of those limits for
our attitudes towards non-naturalistic philosophical and religious traditions
and practices. Lately, this has included a study of how an appreciation of the
contingency of the sciences can foster a commitment to pluralism and epistemic
humility, the latter being, to my mind, a crucial component of any inquiry into
the limits of science understood as a human practice. More widely I have
interests in virtue epistemology, science and religion, and modern European
philosophy, most of which are interrelated, but some of which are entirely freestanding.
Details of my teaching,
research and other academic activities are available below.
Research
Workshops
o Wittgenstein on Scientism (3rd
July 2012)
o
Historiography
and the Philosophy of the Sciences (25th June 2012)
Teaching
o Knowledge
and Reality.
o Moral Theory.
o Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Science.
For more information on my
teaching and research, or for any other queries, please do email me.
© Ian James Kidd, 2012