Samuel Hughes

Research Fellow

Academic Summary

B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Oxon.)
B.Phil. in Philosophy (Oxon.)

Samuel Hughes read for a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a B.Phil. in Philosophy at
Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was supervised by Roger Scruton and Edward Harcourt. He is
currently completing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of
Angela Breitenbach and Paulina Sliwa, entitled ‘In Pursuit of Reason: An Essay on Rationality and the
Emotions’. He has also worked as a visiting research student at the University of Tokyo and the
Humboldt University of Berlin.

In the autumn of 2019 he will based in Rome as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame’s
campus there. He will be starting a book on understandings of artistic style, especially in nineteenth-
century German thought.

Research Interests

Ethics
Philosophy of emotion
Nineteenth-century German thought
Philosophical and theological aesthetics (esp. aesthetics of architecture)

Affiliations

Vice-Chancellor’s Scholar, University of Cambridge

Publications

‘Tradition and Authenticity in Scruton’s Aesthetics’, Philosophy. Forthcoming.
‘German Idealism’ in Benedikt Göcke (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Idealism. Forthcoming.
‘Schiller on the Pleasure of Tragedy’, British Journal of Aesthetics 55:4 (2015).