Biography

From 1981-1984, he read Philosophy and Theology at King's College London, graduating with a B.A. Honours degree and A.K.C. (Associate of King's College) in 1984. In the following year (1984-1985), he studied Philosophy, Sociology and Educational Science at the Universities of Bielefeld and Berlin (Germany). In 1985, he embarked on an M.Phil. research programme in Contemporary Moral Theory and Political Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. In 1987, he returned to the Free University of Berlin for further studies of Philosophy, Sociology, and Educational Theory. In the summer of 1988, he transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), for a Ph.D.in Philosophy and, in 1992, was appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at Swansea. He joined the Department of Political and Cultural Studies In the autumn of 2009.

Current Research

• “Lucky Pagans and Unfortunate Believers: Wittgensteinian Construals of  Religious Faith”, in Analytic Philosophy of Religion: The Anglo-Saxon Perspective, ed. J. Gomulka (Crakow: John Paul II. Pontifical Academy)
• “Wittgenstein and the Idea of the Transcendent”, in Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher (eds.), Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities (New York/Berlin/London: Springer)
• “The Divided Self: Kaufman, Kafka, and Human Nature”, in David La Rocca (ed.), The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011)
• Ilham Dilman, Philosophy as Criticism, ed. Brian Davies and Mario von der Ruhr (London/New York: Continuum)

Selected Recent Publications

•  “Christianity and the Errors of Our Time: Simone Weil on Atheism and Idolatry”, in Lucian and Rebecca Stone (eds.), The Relevance of the Radical - Simone Weil 100 Years Later (London: Continuum, 2010)
• "Wittgenstein, Rhees, and the Swansea School", in John Edelman (ed), Sense and Reality. Essays out of Swansea (Frankfurt: Ontos, 2009)
• “Philosophy, Theology, and Heresy: D.Z. Phillips and the Grammar of Religious Belief”, in Andy Sanders (ed.), D.Z. Phillips' Contemplative Philosophy of Religion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)
•  Simone Weil - An Apprenticeship in Attention (London: Continuum, 2006)