Jack Tagney (formerly Griffiths) grew up near Penryn in Cornwall. He has a PhD in Political Thought/Philosophy from the University of Exeter (2018), and has been teaching and researching at Exeter in various capacities since 2014.

Jack's research interests lie at the intersection of political thought, ethics, and philosophy of nature. He is primarily interested in the inter-relations between our understanding of nature, especially the biological world, and socio-political and environmental spheres.

He has published on the political significance of contemporary understanding of evolutionary and developmental biology (2017); the practice of appealing to 'nature' as a source of moral and political authority (2021a); and the role of the interpretation of organic phenomena in bioethical reasoning (2021b). He has several other ongoing projects, including work on the environmental and social significance of wonder, the relationship between dehumanisation and species essentialism, and neo-Aristotelian concepts of life, health, and flourishing.

Nominated for Best Teacher/Academic, University of Exeter Teaching Awards 2019

Publications

Tagney, J. O. (published as Griffiths, J. O.) (2021b) ‘Bioethics, the Ontology of Life, and the Hermeneutics of Biology’, in Ferrarello, Susi (ed.) Phenomenology of Bioethics: Technoethics and Lived-Experience (Springer Nature), pp. 1-21

Tagney, J. O. (published as Griffiths, J. O.) (2021a) ‘Out of Order: Lorraine Daston on Being ‘Against Nature’’. Global Discourse. Vol. 11 (Nos. 1–2), pp. 289–294

Tagney, J. O. (published as Griffiths, J. O.) (2017) ‘The Changing Space Between Politics and Biology’. Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 16 (No. 4), pp. 541–548

Tagney, J. O. (published as Griffiths, J. O.) (2013) ‘The Human as a Situated Being: on the Heideggerian Underpinnings of the Extended Mind Hypothesis’. British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy. Vol. 6 (No. 1), pp. 33–43

Twitter:@JackOTagney 

Academia.edu: https://exeter.academia.edu/JackOwenTagney