Ellie is the British Society for the History of Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow. Before taking up her post King's, she was a Lecturer in Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford (2024) and a Teaching Fellow at Nottingham University (2023-4). She completed her PhD at Birkbeck, University of London (2019-2023). 

Ellie is a Research Fellow at Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) (2023-2025) and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.

Research Interests

• Ethics
• Meta-Ethics
• History of 20th Century Philosophy

My interest lies is at the intersection of Meta-ethics/Ethics and The History of Philosophy, particularly the ethics of Aristotle through the lens of under-appreciated figures in the history of 20th Century Philosophy. I am particularly interested in the philosophy of Mary Midgley and the so-called 'Wartime Quartet'.

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Teaching

I teach Ethics and Politics at King's. Previously, I have taught modules in Aesthetics, Epistemology, Social Philosophy and the History of Philosophy. 

Expertise and Public Engagement

Speaker on Philosophers Zone on ABC Australia.

Speaker on the Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast (April 2024).

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Selected publications

'Mary Midgley’s meta-ethics and Neo-Aristotelian naturalism. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2024.2389863

‘Mary Midgley, Beast and Man (1978): A Re-appraisal’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy volume (2023) pages 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2278065. This article has been viewed 785 times since publication

‘Woman, Philosopher, Mother’, Geraldine Bedell (ed.), What Have Animals Ever Done For Us?. (London: Royal Society for the Protection of Animals, 2021).

‘Mary Midgley’, in R. Buxton and L. Whiting (eds) The Philosopher Queens: The Lives and Legacies of Philosophy’s Unsung Women (London: Unbound, 2020).