Welcome to my website

Image description: a head-and-shoulders picture of me, a white man with dark brown hair, medium brown glasses, wearing a rust-brown corduroy shirt. I’m in front of a bookcase. A bookcase, a plant, and a painting are in the background.

I’m a philosopher and critical disability theorist. I was an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar in the University College Dublin School of Philosophy. I use feminist and continental philosophy, critical phenomenology and actor-network theory, to understand the reality of disability. I’m interested in the tensions that exist between dominant everyday understandings of disability and humanness: that is, how disability appears to deviate from what is purported to be fully or properly human. I’m also developing an ethical approach to disability that draws upon theories of biopolitics and feminist philosophies of vulnerability.

You can read more about me and my research here. This website is mostly somewhere to share conference and workshop papers. You can read these by tapping ‘Updates’. Some drafts contain ideas that I was developing at the time, but do not wholeheartedly subscribe to any longer. More recent works are most indicative of my current positions.

You can find me on Bluesky, and at the other places linked below.