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Dr Steven Gormley

Senior Lecturer
School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr Steven Gormley
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  • Location

    Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    Tuesday 11-12 / Fri 11-12 Via zoom: https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/98059124036 Please email me to book a slot

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Biography

Before coming to the University of Essex to do his PhD in Philosophy, Steven studied Continental Philosophy at Warwick and Philosophy and Literature at Kent. He then took up a two year research fellowship in the Philosophy Department at Essex. He is the author of Deliberative Theory and Deconstruction (EUP, 2020), and has published on deconstruction, democratic deliberation and rhetoric, free speech, forgiveness, grief, and Iris Murdoch.

Qualifications

  • BA Kent

  • MA Warwick

  • PhD Essex

Research and professional activities

Research interests

Research Interests

Key words: Attention Economy; Agonistic and Deliberative Democracy; Contemporary French Philosophy (Derrida, Foucault, Rancière); Iris Murdoch; Moral Psychology; Nietzsche
Open to supervise

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Beyond the BA: Skills for the Next Step (CS107)

  • Beyond the BA: Building Career and Employability Readiness (CS207)

  • Beyond the BA: Preparing for Life as a Graduate (CS307)

  • Death, God and the Meaning of Life (PY113)

  • Rationalists and Empiricists (PY400)

  • Nietzsche (PY432)

  • Contemporary Critical Theory (PY948)

Previous supervision

Hei Tung Chan
Hei Tung Chan
Thesis title: Communicating Without Imparting: A Reappraisal of Kierkegaard’S Indirect Communication
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 21/11/2023
Kate Louise Seymour
Kate Louise Seymour
Thesis title: Rethinking Critical Theory Between Ranciere and the Frankfurt School
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 13/6/2019
Jakub Jacek Kowalewski
Jakub Jacek Kowalewski
Thesis title: The Phenomenology of Ethical Self-Awareness
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 25/3/2019
Adam Gilbert Leach
Adam Gilbert Leach
Thesis title: Nietzsche and Moral Inquiry: Posing the Question of the Value of Our Moral Values
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 30/4/2018
Rebeca Perez Leon
Rebeca Perez Leon
Thesis title: The Politics of Our Relation to Language in Rorty and Derrida
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 2/6/2015

Publications

Journal articles (6)

Gormley, S., (2023). On Grief's Ethical Task. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 31 (5), 613-632

Gormley, S., (2019). Deliberation, Unjust Exclusion, and the Rhetorical Turn. Contemporary Political Theory. 18 (2), 202-226

Gormley, S., (2018). Are you saying we actually don't have free speech anymore?. The New Pretender

Gormley, S., (2014). The Impossible Demand of Forgiveness. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 22 (1), 27-48

Gormley, S., (2014). Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth. Critical Horizons. 15 (2), 206-210

Gormley, S., (2012). Rearticulating the Concept of Experience, Rethinking the Demands of Deconstruction. Research in Phenomenology. 42 (3), 374-407

Books (1)

Gormley, S., (2020). Deliberative Theory and Deconstruction: A Democratic Venture. Edinburgh University Press. 9781474475280

Book chapters (1)

Gormley, S., "We see here as in...mirror": Fear and Freedom in Murdoch's Picture of Derrida' (forthcoming). In: The Wartime Quartet and Continental Philosophy. Editors: Dougherty, M. and Whyman, T., . Routledge

Contact

segorm@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus

Academic support hours:

Tuesday 11-12 / Fri 11-12 Via zoom: https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/98059124036 Please email me to book a slot

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