Alan Thomas is Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department of Philosophy at York University. He held previous appointments at King’s College, London, University of Kent, Tilburg University and was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia, Murphy Institute at Tulane University, the Australian National University, and St. Louis University. Alan’s main research is in the theory of justice, inequality, republicanism and social epistemology.He is author of three books, Thomas Nagel, (Acumen Press 2009, Routledge. Kindle edition 2015), Value and Context: the Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2010 paperback), and his recent Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is also editor and contributor of Bernard Williams (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
He has published in several leading journals among which European Journal of Political Theory, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Philosophical Topics, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and the European Journal of Philosophy.
He is currently working on a project entitled ‘The Moral Psychology of Inequality’ (funded by the John Templeton Foundation via St. Louis University, with Alfred Archer and Bart Engelen from Tilburg University); and a monograph, Ethics in the First Person: Moral Particularism and Its Consequences.
He has published in several leading journals among which European Journal of Political Theory, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Philosophical Topics, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and the European Journal of Philosophy.
He is currently working on a project entitled ‘The Moral Psychology of Inequality’ (funded by the John Templeton Foundation via St. Louis University, with Alfred Archer and Bart Engelen from Tilburg University); and a monograph, Ethics in the First Person: Moral Particularism and Its Consequences.