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Staff Profile

Dr Gus Hewlett

Lecturer

Background

I have been Lecturer in Philosophy at Newcastle since 2023. I am also Senior Tutor for Philosophy.


Before coming to Newcastle I taught Philosophy at Université Paris VIII, the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy and Staffordshire University.


I have a BA Politics and Sociology from Manchester University, and an MA and PhD in Philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. My PhD thesis was on science and individuation in Gilbert Simondon's early philosophy.

Research

My research interests are political philosophy and philosophy of science, generally in post-Kantian Modern European Philosophy. I'm interested the French tradition of history of science and epistemology (Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault, Serres, Latour, and Stengers), though I also take an interest in the Anglo-German tradition of philosophy of science (from Logical Empiricism to Feyerabend and beyond). I'm beginning to work on Marxist political philosophy and (primarily French and German) responses to it.


I'm currently writing a book, published by EUP, on the role of natural science for Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation.

Teaching

2025/6

Module leader:

  • Phenomenology and Twentieth Century Philosophy (Latour, Malabou, Meillassoux) (PHI3019)
  • Place-Based Philosophy: Investigating Context through Fieldwork (PHI2017)
  • Introduction to Political Philosophy (PHI1014)
  • Continental Political Thought (PHI3002)


  • PHI1004; PHI2004; PHI3004 Project Modules (Project Tutor)


  • MLitt taught seminar on Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle

2024/5

Module Leader:

  • Ancient Philosophy 1: the Presocratics (PHI1012)
  • Texts in Contemporary Philosophy: Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man (PHI2202)
  • Introduction to Political Philosophy (PHI1014)
  • Continental Political Thought (PHI3002)


  • PHI1004; PHI2004 Project Modules (Project Tutor)

2023/4

Module leader:

  • Phenomenology (Heidegger's Being and Time) (PHI3003)
  • Introduction to Political Philosophy (PHI1014)
  • Continental Political Thought (PHI3002)


  • PHI1004 Project Modules (Project Tutor)


  • MLitt taught seminar on Jacques Rancière's political philosophy
Publications