Dr Mark Sinclair

Biography

Academic and professional qualifications I have degrees in Philosophy from MMU, the University of Warwick and Paris IV (Sorbonne), and I also have a Graduate Diploma in Law. Previous employment I was a Tutor in Philosophy for two years at The University of York betwen 2004-2006 and have worked at MMU since finishing my PhD in 2003. I became Research Fellow in Philosophy in 2006, and Senior Lecturer in 2009. Other academic service (administration and management) Examinations Officer, BA Philosophy Erasmus and International Exchange Office

Research Interest

I am currently working on the idea of tendency/inclination/propensity (what is it to tend to do something, to be inclined to do it?) as a specific issue within the metaphysics of powers and the philosophy of mind, and this against the background of the history of philosophy. As a part of this project, I am currently finishing a monograph concerning the 19th-century French philosopher Félix Ravaisson (Being Inclined: the Philosophy of Félix Ravaisson). After that I'm contracted to write a book on Ravaisson's star student, Henri Bergson, for the Routledge Philosophers series. I have a range of interests in the history of philosophy, but I am keen to supervise work in most aspects of post-Kantian European philosophy. I have a long-standing interest in the philosophy of art, which I teach at Level 6 (Year 3), and my book on Ravaisson will contain a chapter on his aesthetics. I'm also due to write a chapter on Bergson's Philosophy of Art for a Cambridge University Press collection.