Eliza Little

I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. Prior to coming to Warwick, I held postdoctoral fellowships at Auburn University and the University of Chicago.

My research deals with with issues in the philosophy of mind in the context of 19th and 20th century European thought. I am particularly interested in Hegel and Beauvoir's accounts of self-consciousness and perception, and the role of artworks (particularly works of contemporary fiction) in human life. I am currently working on two book manuscripts: "The Aesthetic Lives of Others" which treats Simone de Beauvoir’s account of how literature offers knowledge of other minds and "Hegelian Intuitions" which aims at reanimating the Kantian reading of Hegel in the wake of the field's metaphysical turn.

I am interested in supervising projects on Kant, Hegel, Beauvoir (but not Sartre), and aesthetics, broadly construed.

You can read more about my work on my website.

Current Teaching:

PH36C: Philosophy & Tragedy (Term 1)

PH9HE: Beauvoir's Existentialism (Term 2)

Recent & Forthcoming Publications:

“Hegel’s Mature Critique of Schelling.” Forthcoming in Schelling-Studien.

“Kant’s Leading Thread in Hegel’s Science of Logic.” 2025. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, April, 1–23. Final here.

“Boredom as a Propositional Attitude: Reading Alberto Moravia with Hegel.” 2024. In Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination. Ed. G. L. Hagberg. Palgrave Macmillan. Final here.

“Hegel on Architecture, Poetry, and the Sociality of Perception.” 2024. Revue internationale de philosophie, No 309(3), 119-134. Final Here

“Simone de Beauvoir’s Critical Hegelianism.” 2023. Verifiche, LII (1), pp. 131-147. Final here (via academia.edu)

“Greek Tragedy and Self-Authorship in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” 2020. In Hegel’s Political Aesthetics. Eds. Stefan Bird-Pollan and V. Marchenkov. Bloomsbury.