Dr Peters earned his BA in psychology, his master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh in intellectual history, and his PhD from the University of Glasgow School of Interdisciplinary Studies, which crossed the disciplines of history, politics, philosophy, and constitutional law. He is passionate about teaching, working with students, and interdisciplinary research with an eye to applying it to real world issues.
His doctoral and continuing research focuses on the intellectual history of the US Constitution, particularly the contributions of James Wilson and his adherence to the philosophy of his fellow Scot, Thomas Reid. And, how recovering that history, philosophy, and Wilson’s Reidian Democratic Political Theory can aid in understanding, informing, and addressing the contemporary crises of political polarisation, “Fake News”, and democracy’s legitimacy crisis.
The general theme of his research is recovering marginalised and dissentient voices in the development of our current theories and practice of democracy and law, and exploring, how they can be applied, adapted, and developed to understand and improve the present. This has led him to explore using some of these historical dissentient or neglected voices in the western/ global north tradition as a means of translating global south concepts, particularly concerning stewardship, into our contemporary political and legal theories/ frameworks.
