David Ellis
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Ethics and Religion at Leeds Trinity University. Interested in Wittgenstein, religion and exophilosophy.
You can find my publications & work in progress here: philpeople.org/profiles/david-ellis-1
- Reposted by David EllisI'm delighted to announce the American release of my latest translation: The Travelling Tree (旅をする木) by Michio Hoshino!!! Published by Gaia (Hachette) in the UK this fall and now in the USA today! #japaneseliterature #travel #essay #memoir #translation #USA #release #booksky
- 📚It’s official! I’ve signed a contract with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for my first book, Philosophy on First Contact 🎉 This will explore the philosophical aspects of our first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life Can’t wait to start - Stay tuned for more alien philosophy! 🛸
- 🎉I’m pleased to share that Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast and I are co-editing a new volume, Wittgenstein: On Certainty and Religion, with Palgrave Macmillan. This collection is one of the first to explore how On Certainty’s themes relate to our understanding and study of religion
- Is religious fictionalism compatible with Wittgenstein’s view of religion? I answer that question with my co-author, Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast, in our paper that published today (open access) in Studia Theologica. doi.org/10.1080/0039...
- Should we tax companies that displace workers through AI? I give some reasons for doing so in my recent paper: social-epistemology.com/2025/10/13/t... This paper relates to a recent publication I co-authored with Hefin Gwilym, Dave Beck, Edward Thomas Jones, and Sara Closs-Davies
- Reposted by David Ellis