Richard completed his PhD at Swansea in 2006, with a PhD thesis on the political philosophy of R.G. Collingwood, having previously received a BA degree in philosophy and history and an MA in philosophy from University College Dublin.
As Honorary Research Fellow, Richard is affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Culture and Politics (C-SCAP).
Richard’s research interests are in the fields of political theory, aesthetics, philosophy of history, and the study of culture or civilisation. His current research explores a variety of theoretical approaches to culture/civilisation, including historicism, hermeneutics, Collingwood, Voegelin, and postcolonialism. Furthermore, he is interested in the relation between art and technology (taking into account varieties of continental philosophy and literary modernism) and dialogical approaches to politics. This involves reference to the works of Collingwood, Oakeshott, Taylor, Gadamer and Heidegger.
Richard’s publications are as follows: Collingwood and the Crisis of Western Civilisation: Art, Metaphysics and Dialectic, Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2008. ‘Collingwood and the Reform of Logic and Metaphysics’, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, Vol.13 (2007) No.1, pp.27-52 Review of James Connelly, Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood, in Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, Vol.10, 2004, pp.118-131.
