About
Paddy is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Political Theory. He is currently the Programme Director for Philosophy and PPE programmes. He has a wide range of interests, spanning topics in ethics, political philosophy and social theory. He has published extensively on issues concerning gender, identity, power, the politics of recognition and regret. His recent and current research focuses on, inter alia, sexual ethics, parenting and the family, and the philosophy of emotion. He is also conducting a project researching the history of philosophy at Swansea University.
He is the author or co-author of four books. The most recent of these is titled Regret (Oxford University Press, 2024). This work offers a comprehensive examination of the nature of regret and its role in decision-making. In so doing, it engages with important areas of philosophical debate, such as reasons, time and justification, the temporal self, values and valuing, responsibility, the causal framing of events and self-forgiveness. It also examines how regret has become politicised in debates about abortion and trans identities, and reveals ways in which regret is used to regulate people’s reproductive choices. Reviews of the book can be accessed here, here and here. His previous book, Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction (Polity, 2022) was co-authored with Elisa Magrí.