Nick currently teaches or has taught the following units:

• PHL 131 Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics
• PHL 132 Philosophy, Morality and Society
• PHL 245 Reason in History
• PHL 254 Freedom and Alienation
• PHL 351 Social Philosophy
• Honours Seminars:
  • The Philosophy of Charles Taylor
  • John McDowell's Mind and World
  • Axel Honneth's Ethics of Recognition
  • Marx's Social Philosophy
  • Philosophy and Work
  • Themes in the Philosophy and Politics of Recognition

Monographs

Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals and Modernity, Cambridge, Polity, 2002.

Strong Hermeneutics: Contingency and Moral Identity, London and New York, Routledge, 1997.

Edited Collections

Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict, Palgrave/Macmillan, forthcoming (co-edited with Shane O'Neill)

New Philosophies of Labour: Work and the Social Bond, co-ed with Jean-Philippe Deranty, Leiden and Boston, Brill, forthcoming.

special issue on Social Hope of Critical Horizons, vol. 9 no. 1, co-ed with Shane O Neill, Stocksfield, Acumen, 2008.

Critique Today, co-ed with Robert Sinnerbrink, Jean-Philippe Deranty, and Peter Schmiedgen, Leiden, Brill, 2006.

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Charles Taylor, co-ed with Arto Laitinen, Helsinki, Acta Philosophica Fennica, vol. 71, 2002

Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, London and New York, Routledge, 2002.

Chapters of Edited Books

'Introduction: A Recognition-Theoretic Research Programme for the Social Sciences', in O'Neill and Smith eds, Recognition Theory as Social Research.

'Work as a Sphere of Norms, Paradoxes and Ideologies of Recognition', in O'Neill and Smith eds, Recognition Theory as Social Research.

‘Work, Recognition and the Social Bond: Changing Paradigms’, in Smith and Deranty eds, New Philosophies of Labour (with J-P Deranty).

'Three Normative Models of Work', in Smith and Deranty eds, New Philosophies of Labour.

'Recognition, Culture and Economy: Honneth's Debate with Fraser', in D. Petherbridge ed., Axel Honneth: Critical Essays, Leiden and Boston, Brill 2011.

Language, Work and Hermeneutics’, in Andrzej Wiercinski ed., Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Art of Conversation, International Studies n Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, vol 2, LIT Verlag, Berlin, 2011, pp. 201-22.

'From the Concept of Hope to the Principle of Hope', in Rochelle Green and Janet Horrigan eds, Hope after Hope, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2010, pp. 3-22.

‘Multiculturalism and Recognition’, in Duncan Ivison, ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010, pp.159-177.

‘Expressivism in Brandom and Taylor’, in James Chase, Edwin Mares, Jack Reynolds and James Williams eds., Postanalytic and
Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides, London: Continuum, 2010, pp. 145-156.

‘Rorty on Religion and Hope’, in James Tartaglia ed., Richard Rorty (Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers), 4 Vols, Vol 4, ch. 83, London and New York, Routledge, 2009.

‘Levinas, Habermas and Modernity’, in David Rasmussen and James Swindal eds, Habermas II, 4 Vols, Vol.1, ch. 11, Sage Masters in Modern Social Thought, New Delhi, Sage, 2009.

'Hope and Critical Theory', in R. Sinnerbrink, et al eds, Critique Today, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2006,pp. 45-61.

'Is Monotheism Compatible with Pluralism? Reflections on Richard Rorty's Critique of Religion', in Avery Plaw ed., Frontiers of Diversity: Essays in Contemporary Pluralism, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2005, pp.17-32.

'Taylor in the Hermeneutic Tradition', in Ruth Abbey ed., Charles Taylor (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 29-51.

'Overcoming Representationalism', in Arto Laitinen and Nicholas H. Smith eds., Perspectives on the Philosophy of Charles Taylor, 2002, pp. 29-43.

'Introduction', Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, 2002, pp. 1-5.

'Hans-Georg Gadamer', in Jon Simons ed., From Kant to Levi-Strauss: the Background to Contemporary Critical Theory, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2002, pp. 181-196.

'Critical Theory Today: An Interview with Thomas McCarthy', with Thomas McCarthy and Shane O'Neill, in William Rehg and James Bohman eds, Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2001, pp. 413-29.

'Philosophy, Contingency and Social Criticism', in Iain Mackenzie and Shane O'Neill eds, Reconstituting Social Criticism: Political Morality in an Age of Skepticism, London, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 123-137.

‘Taylor on Solidarity’, Thesis Eleven, no. 99, November 2009, 48-70 (with Arto Laitinen).

'Work and the Struggle for Recognition', European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 8, no. 1, 2009, 46-60.

'Levinas, Habermas and Modernity', Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 34, no. 6, July, 2008, 643-664.

'Analysing Hope', Critical Horizons, vol. 9, no. 1, May, 2008, 5-23.

'The Hermeneutics of Work: On Richard Sennett', Critical Horizons, vol. 8, no. 2, December, 2007, 186-204.

'Ekspressivisme hos Brandom of Taylor, Slagmark: tidsskrift for idéhistorie, summer, 2007, vol. 49, 99-112 (Danish translation of 'Expressivism in Brandom and Taylor').

'Hope and Critical Theory', Critical Horizons, 2005, vol. 6, no. 1, 45-61.

Rorty on Religion and Hope', Inquiry, vol. 48, no. 1, February, 2005, 76-98.

'Levinas, Subjectivity and the Sacred', Synthesis Philosophica, 29-30, 1-2, 2000, 129-43. (Croation translation: 'Levinas, subjectivnost I sveto', Filozofska Istrazivanja, 81-82, 2-3, 2001, 397-408).

'Contingency and Self-Identity: Taylor's Hermeneutics vs. Rorty's Postmodernism', Theory, Culture and Society, 13:2, 1996, 105-20.

'Charles Taylor, Strong Hermeneutics and the Politics of Difference', Radical Philosophy 68, Autumn, 1992, 19-27.