Dr Andrew Cooper has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. Before coming to Warwick, Andrew held Postdoctoral Fellowships at UCL, Durham and Bonn, and received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney. He was a visiting scholar at UC San Diego in 2018, and will be visiting the University of Chicago in 2019. Andrew works on Kant and Post-Kantian philosophy, with two main areas of research: (1) Aesthetics, including Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger; and (2) Philosophy of Nature, including Kant, Kielmeyer, Goethe and Schelling. He is interested in the insights that the history of philosophy brings to contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science.

Andrew is currently on Research Leave, working on a Leverhulme-funded project called 'The Road Not Taken: Kant and Organised Systems'. This project investigates the philosophical implications of recent work in the biology of developmental systems by examining its historical roots in 18th and 19th century thought.