Nick currently teaches or has taught the following units:

• PHIL131 Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics
• PHIL132 Philosophy, Morality and Society
• PHIL245 History of Philosophy 1
• PHIL254 Freedom and Alienation
• PHIL359 History of Philosophy 2
• 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

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

'Three Normative Models of Work', in Nicholas H. Smith and Jean-Philippe Deranty eds, New Philosophies of Labour: Work and the Social Bond, Leiden and Boston, Brill (forthcoming)

‘Expressivism in Brandom and Taylor’, in James Chase, Edwin Mares, Jack Reynolds and James Williams eds., On the Futures of Philosophy: Post-Analytic and Meta-Continental Thinking, London: Continuum.

'Language, Work and Hermeneutics', in Andrzej Wiercinski ed., Sprache ist Gesprach: Gadamer's Understanding of Language as Conversation, Toronto, The Hermeneutic Press (forthcoming).

'Recognition, Culture and Economy: Honneth's Debate with Fraser', in D. Petherbridge ed., The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth, Leiden and Boston, Brill (forthcoming)

'From the Concept of Hope to the Principle of Hope', in Rochelle Green and Janet Horrigan eds, Hope, Amsterdam, Rodopi (forthcoming) (Expanded version of 'On the Concept, Value and Principle of Hope', in R. Green & J. Horrigan eds, Hope: Probing the Boundaries, Probing the Boundaries series vol 42, Oxford, Inter-Disciplinary Press, second edition, 2008, 285-301).

'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', with Arto Laitinen (forthcoming), Thesis Eleven.

'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.