Research


Publications

Works in progress

  • ‘Who’s Afraid of Friedrich Nietzsche? Genealogy, Higher-Order Evidence, and Rule-Following’.

    • Comparative analysis of competing conceptions of genealogical anxiety.

  • ‘Modernity, Alienation, and the Politics of the Space of Reasons’.

    • Analysis of the material foundations of normative alienation and its implications for topics in the philosophy of mind and the metaphysics of normativity.

  • ‘Ineffective Altruism’.

    • Critical evaluation of effective altruism’s policy recommendations in light of established international development and humanitarian best practice.

Selected talks

  • ‘Towards a Critical Pragmatics: Power, Exclusion, and Genealogical Anxiety’. DPhil Seminar. University of Oxford

  • ‘Four Kinds of Genealogy’. DPhil Seminar. University of Oxford.

  • ‘Forgiveness without Contrition: Brandom’s Critique of Genealogy’. DPhil Seminar.

  • ‘Race and Racism in Kant’s Moral Theory’. Minorities and Philosophy Conference. King’s College London.

  • ‘Reasonable Pluralism and the Problem of Difference’. Philosophy Society Undergraduate Conference. University College London.

Unpublished work

  • Ratcliffe, Julian. 2018. ‘Beyond Ideology: Marx, Critique, and the Production of Social Reality’. MPhilStud Thesis. Department of Philosophy, King’s College London. Download.