Alan Thomas (philosopher)

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Alan Thomas
Born1964
moral philosophy, political philosophy
Websitehttps://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.

Career

Thomas was educated at the Graig Comprehensive School, Llanelli, before undergraduate study at

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

  • 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

  1. ^ "Alan Thomas". Google Scholar Citations.
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