Philosopher. Research Fellow at @UHPhilosophy and at @AboAkademi Author of Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit, and Anxiety&Wonder: on Being Human.
Joined May 2020
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2 May 2024
It is out! 🎉
My 2nd book on Anxiety & Wonder, their strange intentionality, how they link to each other, what they reveal about who we are &why they point to some serious inadequacies in the mental health discourse. At a reasonable £18 by @BloomsburyBooks bloomsbury.com/uk/anxiety-an…
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May 22
Excited to be back in Hay-on-Wye! I will spend the weekend speaking and debating in this beautiful setting ☀️, come and say hello if you are around! @HTLGIFestival
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May 22
This is particularly sad for me as the philosophy department has been a home for my teaching and research. It reflects the general state of the Humanities in the UK. Please sign this petition to save the Humanities at the Uni of Hertfordshire c.org/nNFQDXwDyG via @UKChange
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This gem on Heidegger’s Being-in-the-World is out and it is free to download until the end of the month! cambridge.org/core/elements/…
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1 Dec 2025
Fun and exciting things can happen when a philosopher becomes a mother!
For @TIME I wrote an article on toddlers and why parents should not refrain from judging bad behavior. Children participate in moral life as much as they participate in speaking.👶🏻✨
time.com/7336286/parenting-c…
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10 Nov 2025
"Heidegger, the rules of logic, and the fly bottle of the hard-nosed analytic philosopher", here is a link to my most recent paper!
tandfonline.com/eprint/TMKWF…
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26 Oct 2025
“I have a mill, so I grind corn; don’t ask me what I grind corn for”!
What vision of the human being drives psychoanalysis?
This is what I discuss in my review of D. M. Black’s collection of essays, Psychoanalysis&Ethics. Out now in @JournalPHP 👇🏻
tandfonline.com/eprint/HCQ59…
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16 Oct 2025
Why realism will not get you very far when you are trying to understand how science works! Chang has produced some great work on the topic and I look forward to hearing his talk tomorrow, at @TheCrick Follow the link to join 👇🏻! #BeingHuman
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8 Sep 2025
Very rewarding to see that my first book continues to inspire reading and thinking! Here is my conversation with psychoanalyst @darrenhabermft
We discussed limits of expression, wonder, Lacan, why making sense of things makes us happier&what Wittgenstein makes of psychoanalysis!
31 Aug 2025
Very pleased to be posting this conversation with philosopher Maria Balaska, on Wittgenstein, Lacan, psychoanalysis, the limits of the sayable, and the need to creatively involve ourselves with language. A real treat, hope you enjoy it.
darrenhaber.substack.com/p/b…
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31 Aug 2025
Very pleased to be posting this conversation with philosopher Maria Balaska, on Wittgenstein, Lacan, psychoanalysis, the limits of the sayable, and the need to creatively involve ourselves with language. A real treat, hope you enjoy it.
darrenhaber.substack.com/p/b…
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30 Jun 2025
The first International Philosophy Festival took place in gorgeous Cascais, Portugal. On the very timely topic of Fear.
I had the pleasure and honor of speaking there, and I truly hope it is the start of a new tradition! 🇵🇹💡✨❤️
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10 Jun 2025
Schumacher College is coming back to life! This course will be held in my native Greece, close to home. Check it out:
schumacherwild.org/wild-in-l…
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16 May 2025
What do philosophers have to say about boredom?
I enjoyed speaking to @antonyjfunnell about it, at @RadioNational, Big Ideas / Future Tense. You can have a listen and share here!
abc.net.au/listen/programs/f…
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16 May 2025
My book, Anxiety and Wonder: On Being Human, is in Bloomsbury’s May Sale—£13.99 until Sun 18 May! ✨📖
If you are curious about how anxiety relates to wonder, and what that pairing reveals about us, find out here 👇🏻
bloomsbury.com/uk/anxiety-an…
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2. @GlosPhilSoc are hosting an in-person public lecture by the wonderful @BalaskaMaria on "Forms of Nature: Real and Manmade".
In-person: 7-8pm.
Details: glosphilsoc.net/
#PhilosophyMatters #BPG2025 #PhilosFortnight2025 #gloucester #nature #animals
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12 Mar 2025
Looking forward to sharing my research on fake nature next Wednesday, 19/03, at the @GlosPhilSoc meeting! ✨ Excited to be part the British Philosophy Fortnight #PhilosophyMatters
More info about my talk on “Forms of Nature: Real and Manmade” here 👇🏻
glosphilsoc.net/
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British Philosophy Fortnight is soon - last two weeks of March!
It's our new annual initiative to celebrate, promote and champion philosophy!
For details, events, downloadable content, check out:
bpa.ac.uk/activities/philoso…
#philosophy #philosophers #PhilosophyMatters #BPF2025
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30 Jan 2025
Here is my recent piece on fake nature 🪴 and why the real thing matters🌱✨. Thanks @TIME, and thanks @KoneenSaatio for funding and supporting my research project!
Column: The (real) problem with fake plants
time.com/7209789/fake-housep…
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25 Jan 2025
“Faced with impressively elaborate copies of plants that never droop or wither, a lot of us may wonder if we are justified to choose natural over fake, and on what grounds.” For @TIME here is my latest piece on the problem with fake nature. time.com/7209789/fake-housep…
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12 Dec 2024
Thanks @BalaskaMaria for speaking to me about Anxiety and wonder: On being human. @BloomsburyPhilo Our conversation is here:
philosophypodcasts.org/balas… So much depends on these two: anxiety (sure) and wonder (let's not forget). @BloomsburyPub @BloomsburyBooks Prof. Balaska writes about it so carefully and well.
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