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James Orr is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He completed a PhD and MPhil in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge and holds a BA in Classics from Balliol College, Oxford. Prior to entering academia, Orr worked for several years in corporate law at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Sullivan & Cromwell. His research interests encompass a variety of topics, including the early movements of German phenomenology, Heidegger's critiques of theology, Kant's pre-critical appeals to teleology, the union of mystical theology and scholastic metaphysics, and the writings of Edith Stein. He is particularly interested in philosophical proposals that explore continental phenomenology's interaction with pre-modern metaphysical approaches to account for laws, powers, causation, and conscious awareness. His teaching involves supervising PhD candidates and directing various MPhil and Tripos courses related to Philosophy and Religion.
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