Alan Thomas (born 1964) is a British philosopher in the Department of

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at the

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. He is best known for his works on ethics and political philosophy.

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

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

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(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'
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.

Books

* '' Extravagance and Misery: the Emotional Regime of Market Societies'', co-authored with Alfred Archer and Bart Engelen, Oxford University Press, 2024 forthcoming, October. * ''Bernard Williams, Cambridge 'Elements' Series'', Cambridge University Press, 2024, forthcoming, May. * '' 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, 2006

References

External links

Alan Thomas's Blog
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