Alan Thomas (philosopher)

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Alan Thomas
Born1964
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

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.

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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]

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References

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  3. Kawall, Jason (13 September 2007). "Review of Value and Context: The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN   1538-1617.
  4. Wilson, James Lindley (23 July 2017). "Review of Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property Owning Democracy". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN   1538-1617.