Dr Beth Lord
Beth Lord
Contact Details
E-Mail: b.lord@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 384439
Room Location: 3.07, Tower Extension
Dr Beth Lord is Principal Investigator for the AHRC Spinoza Research Network.
Beth is interested in how ontology, epistemology and metaphysics intersect with philosophies of nature, life, and production, connecting eventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought with recent European philosophy - particularly Kant, Spinoza and Deleuze.
Her work on philosophy and museums connects museums with philosophy of art, philosophy of history, representation and interpretation. She is interested in how philosophy can help us to think about the nature, history, and future of museums, and in how museums themselves contribute to philosophical thinking.
Publications
Books
- Spinoza's Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
- Kant and Spinozism: From Jacobi to Deleuze (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Edited Collections
- Spinoza Beyond Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2012)
- The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, co-edited with John Mullarkey (Continuum, 2009)
- Thinking about Museums: Philosophical Perspectives, co-edited with Matthew Jarron. Special issue of Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, 21:2 (June 2006)
Articles
- "Between Imagination and Reason: Kant and Spinoza on Fictions", in Inventions of the Imagination: Romanticism and Beyond, ed. by Richard T. Gray et al. (University of Washington Press, 2011), pp. 36-53
- "'Disempowered by nature': Spinoza on the political capabilities of women", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 19:6 (2011), 1085-1106
- "Against the fanaticism of force: Kant's critique of Herder's Spinozism", Parallax, 15:2 (2009), 1-16
- "The Virtual and the Ether: Transcendental Empiricism in Kant's Opus Postumum", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 39:2 (May 2008) Download a version of this paper.
- "From the Document to the Monument: Museums and the Philosophy of History", in Museum Revolutions, ed. by S. Knell (Routledge, 2007).
- "Foucault's Museum: Difference, Representation, and Genealogy", Museum and Society, 4:1 (2006), 1-14
- "Philosophy and the Museum: an introduction", Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, 21:2 (2006), 1-8
- "Postmodernism and History" (with J. Tomlinson), Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 26:1-2 (2006), 121-31
- "Representing Enlightenment Space", in Reshaping Museum Space, ed. by S. MacLeod, (Routledge, 2005), pp. 146-57.
- "Kant's Productive Ontology", Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 14 (2003), 157-86.
Recent Invited Talks
- "Ether and Ideas of Understanding: Kant's response to Maimon and Deleuze", 21st Century Idealism conference, University of Dundee, 2011.
- "Spinoza Today", Forum for European Philosophy, London, 2010.
- 'Disempowered by nature': Returning to the question of women in Spinoza's Political Treatise", Marranism workshop, University of Aberdeen, 2009.
- "Maimon's Transcendental Philosophy", Human Sciences Seminar Series, Manchester Metropolitan University, October 2008.
- "Acting with a Good Reason: Kant and Spinoza on Ethics", Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Stirling, April 2007. Download seminar paper.
- "Between Imagination and Reason: Kant and Spinoza on Fictions", Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary Since Romanticism, University of Washington, May 2007.
- "Immanence and the Transcendental", Deleuze and Rationalism, Middlesex University, March 2007.
- "Transcendental materialism: Kant, Spinoza, and the philosophy of immanence", Symposium on Concepts of nature, concepts of materiality, Manchester Metropolitan University, March 2007.
- "From the Document to the Monument: Museums and the Philosophy of History", Research Seminar series, Dublin Institute of Art, Design and Technology, February 2007.
Research Activities
- AHRC Spinoza Research Network
- Secretary of the Society for European Philosophy
- Beth Lord's page on Academia.edu
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