Dr. Alan Thomas

Alan Thomas is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK. Educated at King's College, Cambridge, (as an Entrance and twice Senior Scholar) Harvard University (as a Kennedy Scholar) and Oxford University, Thomas was previously Professor of Ethics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He has been a Visiting Research Professor at the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University; a Visiting Research Professor at St. Louis University in the USA in 2015; a School Visitor at the Australian National University in 2013; a Visiting Research Professor at Tulane University (Murphy Fellow) from 2009-2010); a Visiting Scholar in the philosophy department at UBC, Vancouver,(2007-2008) and a lecturer/senior lecturer at the University of Kent (1998 - 2009). He previously taught at the universities of Oxford, Keele, Birmingham and King's College, London. He was the Principal Investigator for a Templeton Foundation project on 'the Moral Psychology of Inequality' in 2016–18 that forms the basis of his next book, co-authored with Alfred Archer and Bart Engelen. 'Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies' will be published by Oxford University Press in the Fall of 2024. Thomas is currently the ethics lead for the UKRI Project on 'Trustworthy Autonomous Systems' working on the Ethics of AI (2020–2024).