Dr Jon Phelan

Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)

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Biography

Jon works in the philosophy of literature and is the author of Literature and Understanding (Routledge 2021). He is Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy at Homerton College, Cambridge where he is also an undergraduate tutor; and directs studies in Philosophy for Wolfson College, Cambridge. Jon supervises for the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (mainly in aesthetics) and is a Panel Tutor for University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education.

Jon believes that philosophy is like carpentry in so far as it is something we do rather than something that is merely learnt; he finds the Socratic method has not been improved on to this end.

Qualifications:

MA in Jewish-Christian relations:, University of Cambridge

Research

Literary Insight: Understanding Other Minds through Literature.

Nietzsche and Wittgenstein

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Phelan, J ‘Who’s Afraid of Friedrich Nietzsche? Effective and Ineffective Criticisms’ Think Number 26, Volume 9, Autumn 2010 , 2010
Phelan, J.W ‘The Face in the Figure: An examination of the central metaphors in Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption’ in Dialogue and Alliance, vol. 19, no. 2 Fall/Winter 2005/06 , 2005
Phelan, J. W ‘Unity in Trinity: Some reflections on the Doctrine of the Trinity in Jewish-Christian Relations’ in Dialogue and Alliance, vol.17, no. 1 Spring/Summer 2003 , 2003
• Phelan, J ‘From “Is” to “Ought Not”: how New Atheists commit the naturalistic fallacy’. (IN PRESS)

BOOKS

Phelan, J.W (2005) Philosophy: Themes and Thinkers, Cambridge, CUP , 2005
Phelan, J ‘From “Is” to “Ought Not”: how Dennett and Dawkins commit the naturalistic fallacy’. (UNKNOWN)

Memberships

The British Society of Aesthetics

The Aristotelian Society

OUDCE philosophy society

Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB)

Past courses taught

Philosophy of literature: cognitive and moral value | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of mind: the nature of conscious experience | Summer Programme course

Iris Murdoch: philosophy and fiction | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of mind: the nature of conscious experience | Summer Programme course

Iris Murdoch: philosophy and fiction | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of mind: the nature of conscious experience | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of literature: cognitive and moral value | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of mind: the nature of conscious experience | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of mind: approaches to consciousness | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of literature: cognitive and moral value | Summer Programme course

The philosophy of mind | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of literature: literary fiction and morality | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of literature: literary fiction and understanding | Summer Programme course

The philosophy of mind | Summer Programme course

The philosophy of literature: morality, creativity and understanding | Summer Programme course

The philosophy of literature: what can we learn from literary fiction? | Summer Programme course

The philosophy of mind | Summer Programme course

Issues in the philosophy of literature I | Summer Programme course

Issues in the philosophy of literature II | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of literature: understanding other minds through fiction | Summer Programme course

The philosophy of mind | Summer Programme course

Philosophy of literature: understanding other minds through fiction | Summer Programme course

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