Question: Is there no way out of the mind? (Sylvia Plath, "Apprehensions")
                                                 Answer: ψυχῆς πείρατα ἰὼν οὐκ ἂν ἐξεύροιο πᾶσαν ἐπιπορευόμενος ὁδόν· οὕτω βαθὺν λόγον ἔχει (Heraclitus, DK B45)

This is the homepage of Jimmy Lenman. Sometimes also known as James Lenman. I'm not fussy.

I work in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

I have taught courses in many areas of philosophy including ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, Plato and Aristotle. I recently developed new courses on the philosophical aftermath of the French revolution and on  classical Chinese Philosophy.

My research is mostly on ethics.
 

Before coming to Sheffield, I was a schoolboy in Dundee, Scotland, then an undergraduate student at St Catherine's College, Oxford University, reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics (but not very much Economics), then  a graduate student at St Andrews University studying for an M.Phil. and then a PhD in Moral Philosophy (my thesis was, I fear rather pretentiously, entitled "Realism and Idealism in the Theory of Value"), then a Lecturer at Lancaster University and then a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. In 2002-2003 I was a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University.