Alexander Prescott-Couch

College Lincoln College

Area of Specialisation Ethics Philosophy of Science Political Philosophy Post-Kantian Philosophy

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Associate Professor

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Lincoln College

Employment

2017–present Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford University

2016-2017 Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2015-2016 Law and Philosophy Fellow, The University of Chicago

Education

2008-2015 Ph.D., Philosophy, Harvard University,

Dissertation: Rational Reconstruction and the Construction of an Interlocutor

2005-2006 DAAD Visiting Student, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

2001-2005 B.A., Philosophy and History, Columbia University

Honors in Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude, Salutatorian

Forthcoming	“Two Kinds of Political Understanding,” Philosophical Studies.
2025	Nietzschean Genealogy and Philosophical Methodology,” Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society
2025	“Narrative Understanding,” European Journal of Philosophy
2025	“Thick Narratives and the Value of Minor Details,” Topoi
2024	“The Philosopher as Reverse-Engineer: Some Limits on Pragmatic Genealogy” (author-meets-critic discussion of Matthieu Queloz’s The Practical Origin of Ideas), Analysis.
2024	“Nietzsche and the Significance of Genealogy,” Mind.
2023	"Genealogy Beyond Debunking,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy
2021	“Democracy and the Contemporary Media: What is the Problem?” in The World Information War: Campaigning, Cognition, and Affect.
2020	“Deliberation Through Misrepresentation,” Journal of Political Philosophy.
2017	“Explanation and Manipulation,” Noûs.
2015	“Genealogy and the Structure of Interpretation” Journal of Nietzsche Studies.
2015	“Nietzsche, Genealogy, and Historical Individuals,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies.
2014	“Williams and Nietzsche on the Significance of History for Moral Philosophy,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies.

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