Alan Thomas (philosopher)
Alan Thomas (born 1964) is a British philosopher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York. He is best known for his works on ethics and political philosophy.
Alan Thomas | |
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| Born | 1964 |
| Education | University of Oxford (PhD) D.Phil. |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge (1984–1987) |
| Spouse | Kathryn Brown |
| Awards | Kennedy Scholar 1987–88 |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | King’s College, London (1993-1998) University of Kent Tilburg University (2010-2016) University of York (2016-) |
| Thesis | A contextual model of moral justification (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Williams |
Main interests | moral philosophy, political philosophy |
| Website | https://ethics-socialphilosophy.com/
https://alanthomas.academia.edu https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alan-thomas-51110a76 |
Career
Thomas was educated at the Graig Comprehensive School, Llanelli, before undergraduate study at King's College, Cambridge. Following a year at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, Thomas returned to Oxford University to complete his doctorate under the supervision of Bernard Williams. Thomas began his career at King's College, London before taking up a lectureship at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas became a professor of ethics at Tilburg University in 2010 before becoming a professor of philosophy at the University of York in 2016. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia (2007–2008), a fellow of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University (2009–10), a visiting fellow of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University (2015) and a visiting professor at St. Louis University (2015). His research has been funded by the AHRC (2001) and the Templeton Foundation (2015, 2016–18). In 2019 Thomas was funded by the UK's Independent Social Research Foundation for work on the regulation of the financial sector. He is currently part of a multi-department (Philosophy, Computing, Law) and multi-university research team working on the UKRI (EPSRC) funded project on the resilience of autonomous systems.[1][2][3][4]
Books
- Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2017
- Thomas Nagel, Routledge, 2015
- Bernard Williams (editor and contributor), Cambridge University Press, 2007
- Value and Context: the Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge, The Clarendon Press, 2010
References
- "Alan Thomas". Google Scholar Citations.
- MacIntyre, Alasdair (1 January 2008). "Value and Context: The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge". Journal of Moral Philosophy. 5 (1): 151–154. doi:10.1163/174552408X314240. ISSN 1745-5243.
- Kawall, Jason (13 September 2007). "Review of Value and Context: The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.
- Wilson, James Lindley (23 July 2017). "Review of Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property Owning Democracy". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.