Alec Hinshelwood was a Leverhulme Fellow at the CPKP and is currently a UP Fellow. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leipzig (2018-21) and a Teaching Fellow at UC London (2018). He received his PhD from University College London (2017) and a BPhil from the University of Oxford (2011). His main interests are in the philosophy of mind and action, and in ethics–especially moral psychology. In general, his work is informed by Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Marx and psychoanalysis.
Dr. Alec Hinshelwood
Postdoctoral Leverhulme Fellow and UP Fellow
Period at the center: October 2021 - March 2024
Research Project: The Work of Human Hands: Marx on Humanity as Solidarity
Email: hinshelwood@uni-potsdam.de
WebsiteResearch Project
The Work of Human Hands: Marx on Humanity as Solidarity
In my project, I aim to recover a ground for Marx’s conception of human nature, on which it is seen to consist in our being solidary with one another. I want to show how that conception can help with a difficulty which emerges in connection with neo-Aristotelian ethical theory, but which is not adequately addressed by a Hegelian alternative to that neo-Aristotelianism.
Selected publications
Articles
“The Work of Humans Hands”, in: Practical Reason, eds. J. Conant und D. Ometto (Berlin: de Gruyter, forthcoming).
“How to Make Do with Events”, in: European Journal of Philosophy (2021).
“The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Settling”, in: Inquiry 56:6 (2013), 625-638.
“The Relations between Agency, Identification, and Alienation”, in: Philosophical Explorations 16:3 (2013), 243-258.