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 EllisHere it is! My Japanese fiction writing debut! The first short story I’ve ever written from start to finish in my second language! My story “フォトボマー” (Photo Bomber), is in this anthology “恐怖とSF”（Fear and Sci-fi), released today by Hayakawa, Japan’s oldest and largest SF publisher. #Japanese #scifi
