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Jon works in the philosophy of literature and is currently finishing a philosophical defence of the close reading of literary fiction. He is author of Philosophy: Themes and Thinkers (CUP 2005) and has taught, published papers and presented on a wide range of philosophical subjects, the most recent being: religious language, the is-ought gap, Wittgenstein and the problem of other minds, metaphor and the literary cognitivist debate. Jon is head of philosophy at Hills Road Sixth Form College, supervises for the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (mainly in aesthetics) and is a panel tutor for ICE.
Jon believes that philosophy is something we do rather than something that is merely learnt and finds the Socratic method has not been improved on to this end.
Literary Insight: Understanding Other Minds through Literature.
Nietzsche and Wittgenstein
The British Society of Aesthetics
The Aristotelian Society
OUDCE philosophy society
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB)
