He is a philosopher working at the University of Johannesburg. He considers himself a heretical Platonist, an unorthodox Kantian, and a minimalist Hegelian, but is equally happy being described as a rationalist. His work focuses mainly upon the intersection between the methodology of metaphysics and the structure of rationality, but also includes foundational topics in the philosophy of value, ethics, aesthetics, and social theory. His specific interests range from the design and cultivation of artificial creativity to the fate of the concept of beauty in contemporary art. He is the author of Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon’s New Clothes (Urbanomic, 2014). His blog can be found at http://deontologistics.wordpress.com