Dr. Férdia Stone-Davis

Dr Férdia Stone-Davis works at the intersection of music, philosophy, and theology, focusing particularly on philosophical and theological anthropology, ethics, epistemology and worldmaking.

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 (now Trinity Laban). She completed an FWF-funded “stand alone” project, “The Epistemic Power of Music” at the University of Music and the Performing Arts, Graz, Austria, in September 2025, and is currently completing the book that has resulted from this. She is a Bye Fellow of Murray Edwards College and King’s College, University of Cambridge, and is the Chair of the Royal Music Association Music and Philosophy Study Group. 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. She is now Assistant Professor in Theological and Religious Ethics at Dublin City University.

Stone-Davis’ publications include Musical Beauty: Negotiating the Boundary between Subject and Object (Cascade, Wipf and Stock), a co-edited volume, The Soundtrack of Conflict: The Role of Music in Radio Broadcasting in Wartime and in Conflict Situations (Georg Olms Verlag); an edited volume Music and Transcendence (Routledge); an edited special edition of Contemporary Music Review; a co-edited volume, Catholic Social Thought and Prison Ministry: Resourcing Theory and Practice (Routledge). Recent chapters include “Vivaldi Recomposed: Musical Borrowing, Worldmaking, and Musical Listening”, in Max Richter: History, Memory and Nostalgia, ed. Delphine Vincent, 79–96 (Brepols), and “An Adorative Posture towards Music and Spiritual Realities”, in Music and Christian Spirituality: Theological Approaches, Empirical Methods, and Worship Practices, eds. George Corbett and Sarah Moerman (Open Book Publishers).