Dr Iain Grant
Lecturer, Field leader for Philosophy
PhD (Warwick)
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Email: Iain.Grant@uwe.ac.uk
Dr Iain Hamilton Grant's research interests include post-Kantian European philosophy, especially Philosophical Idealism, contemporary philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of technology, the philosophy of the body, and the history and problems associated with the autonomization of the human and socio-cultural sciences with respect to the physical.
He is Field leader for Philosophy at the University of the West of England, where he is a member of the Metaphysics Research Group. He has supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations on a wide range of topics in Philosophy, Idealism, and philosophy and technology, and welcomes interest in pursuing any of these areas.
Book
Idealism (with Jeremy Dunham, Peter Jowers and Sean Watson) (Acumen, forthcoming)
Philosophies of Nature after Schelling (Continuum, 2006)
(with Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings and Kieran Kelly) New Media: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2002).
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Translations
Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy (Athlone, 1993).
Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death (Sage, 1993).
Recent Essays
‘Speculative Realism’, with Ray Brassier, Graham Harman and Quentin Meillassoux, Collapse 3 (2007).
‘The Insufficiency of Ground’: on Zizek’s Schellingianism’ in Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp, eds, The Truth of Zizek (Continuum, 2007)
‘The ‘‘eternal and necessary bond between Philosophy and Physics’’: a Repetition of the Difference between the Fichtean and Schellingian Systems of Philosophy’, in Angelaki 10 (1) 2005.
'The Physics of the World-Soul', in Judith Norman and Alistair Welchmann, eds., The New Schelling (Continuum, 2004).
'Spirit in Crashes: Animist Machines and the Power of Number', in Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant, eds., Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material (Intellect, 2002).
'At the Mountains of Madness', in Gary Genosko, ed., Deleuze: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers vol.3 (Routledge, 2000).
'The Chemistry of Darkness', in PLI 9 (2000).
'The Physics of Analogy', in Rachel Jones and Andrea Rehberg, eds., The Matter of Critique (Clinamen, 2000).
'Schellingianism & Postmodernity: Towards a Materialist Naturphilosophie' (2000), idealismus.de
