Dr Férdia J. Stone-Davis 

Bio:

Férdia J. Stone-Davis  is Director of Research at the Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge, an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and a Postdoctoral Bye Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.

Dr Stone-Davis is the Chair of the Royal Music Association Music and Philosophy Study Group. From January 2022, Férdia will be the principal researcher on a three-year project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), “The Epistemic Power of Music: On the Idea and History of Artistic Research through Music”, to be conducted with the Institute of Music Aesthetics, and the Doctoral School for Artistic Research, at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz.

She received a BA in Theology and Religious Studies, an MPhil in Philosophy of Religion and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She also has an MMus in Early Music Performance Studies from Trinity College of Music, London. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Musicology at the University of Göttingen, Germany between 2012 and 2015 and has 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. Her research interests centre upon music and its relation to philosophical and theological anthropology, ethics, epistemology and worldmaking.

A list of publications can be found on her personal website: www.ferdiastonedavis.com