Professor Lenny Moss PhD, Berkeley (Biochemistry); PhD, Northwestern (Philosophy)

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Telephone: 01392 723304

Associate Professor

Along with Kant I think that at root all of philosophy is 'Philosohical Anthropology' and that 'human nature' is an on-going normative project to be realized in history. From the point of view of an 'anthropological optic' I see a principal divide in philosophy following Kant along the lines of those for whom philosophy continues to be about some form of human (or greater) self-realization and those for whom epistemic certainty, or at least security, devoid of any reference to subjectivity, comes to serve as a kind of unreflective compensation for the vagaries of human existence. My work aspires to be a continuation of the former enterprise, drawing especially on its expressions in Critical Theory and Phenomenology but, as with the tradition of Philosophical Anthropology, I seek to combine these with the empirical resources provided by the best contempoary work in the Human and Life Sciences. My research extends from theoretical and conceptual studies in biology and the human sciences (and the philosophy of science in general) to normative/critical studies in social theory with the overall intention of bringing these together as contributions to an anthropologically informed Critical Theory.