Dr David Leech
MA Hons (St.And.), M.Phil (Cantab.), PhD (Cantab.)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Department of Religion and Theology
Contact
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Research interests
Research Supervision
I welcome enquiries from students wishing to pursue research in the areas of affective religious knowing (the 'heart'), philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy of religion, the religion/psychology interface, philosophical atheism/agnosticism, Christian Platonism, and critiques of philosophical naturalism.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8010 AHRC via Uni Cambridge; Leech, D
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Religion and TheologyDates
01/09/2016 to 31/10/2019
Cambridge Platonists (Cambridge University lead)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Religion and TheologyDates
01/09/2016 to 31/08/2019
The Cambridge Platonists at the origins of Enlightenment: texts, debates, and reception (1650-1730) (Cambridge University Lead)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Modern LanguagesDates
01/09/2016 to 31/08/2019
Thesis supervisions
Beauty and Sublimity
Supervisors
Religious hatred and its contribution to human conflict
Supervisors
Getting into her Habit/Practice-to-Practice
Supervisors
Discerning the Spirit
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
30/10/2020'New Agnosticism', Imaginative Challenge and Religious Experience
Agnosticism
Cudworth on Superintellectual Instinct as Inclination to the Good
The Cambridge Platonists
Neoplatonism and Early Modern Philosophy
Oxford Handbook of Neoplatonism
Recent publications
01/01/2026More's Cabbalistic Writings
The Latin Works of Henry More
Neoplatonism and Early Modern Philosophy
Oxford Handbook of Neoplatonism
Cudworth on Superintellectual Instinct as Inclination to the Good
The Cambridge Platonists
Pathologising Religious Experience and its Resulting Metaphysical Constructions: Henry More’s Critique of Boehme’s Quasi-Materialism in Question 4 of his A Critique of the Teutonic Philosophy
Radical and Rational Religion in Early Modern England: Jacob Böhme and Henry More
Cartesian Immaterialism
The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism