Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and
BA Hons Philosophy Programme Leader
Tel: 020 8331 8977
Email: k.jones@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 237
Office Hours
Monday 11am-1pm
Wednesday 11am-1pm
I joined the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Greenwich in 1999 as a junior lecturer in Philosophy, having previously taught at University College Cork, Ireland. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004 when I also took over the programme leadership of the BA Philosophy. I have an MA (distinction) in Philosophy from De Paul University in Chicago and was awarded my PhD from the University of Warwick. My thesis was on Kant and the Philosophy of Desire.
My principal research interests are in philosophical methodology and pedagogy, including the work of Plato, Wittgenstein and Lyotard. I have developed and run a philosophy programme for children 'Think for Yourself' in a number of local schools. I am also interested in the engagements between philosophy and psychoanalysis, and some social and political philosophy, especially in the field of surveillance studies and certain ethical and gender issues.
Current projects
My most recent work has been concerned with developing a philosophy programme for children, which has been successfully piloted at a number of local schools. Materials for this programme are still being developed. I am also working on papers discussing the pedagogical issues this work raises (especially in relation to the so-called 'Socratic-pedagogy').
Teaching
I teach on courses at all levels. At first year I teach critical reasoning, rhetoric and logic on 'How to Argue'; at second year, I teach the empiricist philosophers Berkeley and Hume on the core course 'Knowledge and Its Limits'; at third year I currently teach a course on Plato's Socratic dialogues and a course on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. In recent years I have also taught a third year course on Freud and an MA course on Lyotard. I run a seminar on pedagogy within the School to support the philosophy placement scheme which I co-ordinate. I have in the past also taught course on Foucault, Feminism, Applied Ethics, Surveillance and Gender Theory.
Publications
I have produced no published work for a number of years, although I have continued to be research active and have given papers at a number of conferences.
Editor and Contributor to Mapping Woman, a feminist philosophy special edition of the Journal of Philosophy and Literature. 1996.
‘’n Sexes’ in ‘Complexity’ edition of Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts. 1996.
‘Sex, Gender and Identity’ in The Social Philosophy Reader. Edited by Tony O’Connor. UCC Press. 1997.
'Exposing Community: Towards a dynamics of Commercium' in The Matter of Critique: Reading’s in Kant’s Philosophy. Edited by A. Rehberg and R. Jones. Clinamen Press, Manchester, 2000.
Other
I have given papers at numerous conferences and am a member of the executive board of the Society for European Philosophy and the Society for Women in Philosophy.
