Dr Férdia J. Stone-Davis

Degrees &  Honours:     

• Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Education (PGCTHLE)
• PhD (Theology)
• MMus (Early Music Performance Studies)
• MPhil (Philosophy of Religion)
• BA (Theology)

Awards & Prizes:    

• Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant received for postdoctoral project ‘The Epistemic Power of Music: On the Idea and History of Artistic Research through Music’ (University of Graz, from January 2022)
• Plater Trust Award for two-year project ‘Flourishing Inside: Developing Theological and Ethical Resources for Pastoral Work in Prison’, with Dr Elizabeth Phillips (2020)
• Visiting Fellowship, Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (2014)
• John Clementi Collard Fellow, The Worshipful Company of Musicians, London (2009/10)
• MMus Scholarship, Trinity College of Music, London (2004)
• Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Scholarship (2000)
• Crosse Studentship (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 1999)

Research Interests:    

My interests lie at the intersection of theology, philosophy and music, focusing particularly on philosophical and theological anthropology, ethics, epistemology and worldmaking.

Biography:    

I was an undergraduate at Murray Edwards and was at Jesus college for my graduate studies (MPhil and PhD) before completing an MMus at Trinity College of Music, London (now Trinity Laban).

I am Director of Research at the Margaret Beaufort Institute, an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, a visiting scholar in Theology, Imagination and Culture at Sarum College, Salisbury, and Chair of the Royal Music Association Music and Philosophy Study Group.

I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Musicology at the University of Göttingen, Germany between 2012 and 2015 and have taught in departments of music, philosophy and theology at the University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, the University of East Anglia, and King’s College, London.

Publications:    

Monographs

• F. J. Stone-Davis, Musical Beauty: Negotiating the Boundary between Subject and Object (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock, 2011).

Edited Volumes

• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Home: Creating and Inhabiting Place through Music Activity’, Contemporary Music Review 34(1) (2015). Taylor and Francis.
• F. J. Stone-Davis, Music and Transcendence (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015).
• F. J. Stone-Davis & M.J. Grant, The Soundtrack of Conflict: The Role of Music in Radio Broadcasting in Wartime and in Conflict Situations. Göttingen Studies in Musicology (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2013).  

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Boundary work and the hospitable border, a review of Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries by Frank Furedi’. Global Discourse 11(3), 555–558, 2020.
• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Introduction: Sense Making and Place Making Through Music’, in ‘Home: Creating and Inhabiting Place through Music Activity’, Contemporary Music Review 34(1) (2015), 1–4, ed. F. J. Stone-Davis (Oxford: Taylor and Francis).
• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Worldmaking and Worldbreaking: Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer’, in ‘Home: Creating and Inhabiting Place through Music Activity’, Contemporary Music Review 34(1) (2015), 101–20, ed. F. J. Stone-Davis (Oxford: Taylor and Francis).
• F. J. Stone-Davis & T. Wishart, ‘“Vocalising Home”: An Interview with Trevor Wishart’, in ‘Home: Creating and Inhabiting Place through Music Activity’, Contemporary Music Review 34(1) (2015), 5–21, ed. F. J. Stone-Davis (Oxford: Taylor and Francis).
• F. J. Stone-Davis & M. Richter, ‘Vivaldi Recomposed: Max Richter in conversation’, in ‘Home: Creating and Inhabiting Place through Music Activity’, Contemporary Music Review 34(1) (2015), 44–53, ed. F. J. Stone-Davis. (Oxford: Taylor and Francis).
• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Making an anthropological case: cognitive dualism and the acousmatic’, Philosophy: The Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy 90(352) (2015), 263–76 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘The Genteel Companion by Humphrey Salter: Gracing as Method’. The Consort 64 (2008).

Peer-Reviewed Chapters

• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Revaluing Silence’, in On Commemoration, eds. Catherine Gilbert, Kate McLoughlin & Niall Munroe (Peter Lang, 2020), 313–316.
• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘The Consolation of Philosophy and the ‘Gentle’ Remedy of Music’, in Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. K. Butler & S. Bassler (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2018), 32–45.
• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Entering the Unknown: Music, Self and God’, in The Religious Philosophy of Roger Scruton, ed. J. Bryson (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016), 165–76.
• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Music and Liminal Ethics: Facilitating a ‘Soulful Reality’’, in The Resounding Soul: Reflections on the Metaphysics and Vivacity of the Human Person, eds. E.A. Lee and S. Kimbriel (Eugene, OR: Veritas, Wipf and Stock, 2016), 285–304.
• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Introduction’, Music and Transcendence, ed. F. J. Stone-Davis (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015), 1–10.
• F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Musical Meaning and Worldmaking: Haydn’s String Quartet in E flat major (op. 33 no. 2)’, in Music and Transcendence, ed. F. J. Stone-Davis (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015), 125–45.
• M. J. Grant & F. J. Stone-Davis, ‘Introduction’, in The Soundtrack of Conflict: The Role of Music in Radio Broadcasting in Wartime and in Conflict Situations, eds. M. J. Grant & F. J. Stone-Davis. Göttingen Studies in Musicology (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2013), 7–12.