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Department of Philosophy

Staff

Dr Ian James Kidd

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Addison Wheeler Fellow in the Department of Philosophy
Shelving Assistant in the Library

(email at i.j.kidd@durham.ac.uk)

Research Interests

  • Ethics
  • Epistemology
  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of medicine
  • Philosophy of religion
  • Philosophy of science

Research Groups

  • History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

Publications

  • 1: (2011). Objectivity, Abstraction, and the Individual: The Influence of Soren Kierkegaard on Paul Feyerabend. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42: 125-134.
  • 2: (2011). Pierre Duhem's epistemic aims and the intellectual virtue of humility. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42: 185-189.
  • Kidd, Ian James (2013). Oswald Spengler. In Encyclopaedia of Modern Political Thought. Claeys, Gregory Washington: CQ Press.
  • Kidd, Ian James (2013). Science, truth and virtues: In defence of Nietzsche’s perspectivism. Philosophical Writings 41.
  • Kidd, Ian James (2012). Can illness be edifying?. Inquiry - Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences 55(5): 496-520.
  • Kidd, Ian James (2012). Feyerabend, Pseudo-Dionysius, and the ineffability of reality. Philosophia 40(2): 365-377.
  • Kidd, Ian James (2012). Humane philosophy and the question of progress. Ratio XXV(2).
  • Kidd, Ian James (2012). Science and the making of modernity. Annals of Science