Douglas studied philosophy and theology at Oxford University (Keble College). In 1992 he was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Munich University, under the supervision of Werner Beierwaltes, one of the most prominent historians of ancient philosophy. In 1993 he started his research on the so-called Cambridge Platonists thanks to the grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He has delivered lectures at Cambridge University (Clare College, Department of Theology) since 1996. He gave lectures at many prestigious universities, such as Sorbonne (2002), Durham (2004) and several Indian universities (Calcutta, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, 2006). In the 2013-2014 academic year he implemented the grant of Templeton Foundation at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). He is the co-publisher of the series "Studies in Philosophical Theology" of Peeters Publishers (Leuven) and the member of the council of Platonian section of the American Academy of Religion, a former secretary of British Society for the Philosophy of Religion and a former chairman of European Society for the Philosophy of Religion.
He manages a prestigious grant of British Arts and Humanities Council devoted to ground-breaking research on the role of the Cambridge Platonists in the history of philosophy and the European culture ("The Cambridge Platonists at the Origins of Enlightenment: texts, debates, and reception (1650-1730"). He is an author of several books devoted to literature, philosophy and art of the European Romanticism as well as numerous articles and chapters in monographs.
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