Dr Nick Jones

Position: Lecturer
Areas of expertise: History of Western Philosophy, especially Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
Email: N.O.Jones@leeds.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)113 343 3390
Location: G.22 Michael Sadler Building

Profile

I completed my PhD (on the philosophy of George Berkeley) at the University of Leeds in 2005. I have been employed as a member of academic staff by the University of Leeds since 2004, in the first instance as a Teaching and Administrative Assistant, and more recently as a Lecturer.

Responsibilities

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Head of PG Tutoring
Head of Personal Tutoring

Research interests

George Berkeley: especially Berkeley's account of sensation, and the role of God in Berkeley's philosophy.
Descartes, Locke, Hume, Leibniz, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
The Philosophy of Humour: the essential nature of humour, the ethics of humour.

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Qualifications

PhD Philosophy (Berkeley on Object and Identity)
MA Philosophy
BA Philosophy

Student education

I deliver modules on the (early) Modern period of the History of Western Philosophy, focusing on figures such as Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

Research groups and institutes

Philosophy