Welcome to the webpage of Alan Thomas. I am a philosopher at the University of York located in the UK. I publish in several areas of philosophy, but primarily in the fields of moral philosophy and political philosophy.
Here are some links to my Google Scholar profile, my wikipedia page, my University home page, and to my Linkedin profile.
This page is a list, in chronological order, of my primary publications in philosophy. You can also follow this link to my blog.
Books
Forthcoming: Ethics in the First Person. Ms currently out for review.
[2024] with Alfred Archer and Bart Engelen Extravagance and Misery: the Emotional Regime of Market Societies, Oxford University Press.
[2024] The Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams, Cambridge University Press.
[2017] Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy, Oxford University Press.
[2009] Thomas Nagel, Routledge.
[2009] Editor and contributor, Bernard Williams, Cambridge University Press (multi-author volume).
[2006] Value and Context: the Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge, the Clarendon Press, OUP.
Book Chapters and Journal Papers.
[forthcoming] with Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott ‘Nozick’s Socialism: the “Shadow” of the Lockean Proviso’ for a special issue of Cosmos & Taxis.
[2024] ‘Virtue, Authenticity and Irony’ special issue of Topoi on the philosophy of Bernard Williams, (eds.) Susanna Cadillha & Ana Falcao. Open Access: download from the linked title.
[2024] with Alfred Archer and Bart Engelen (as second author) “The Shame of Living in Poverty in Capitalist Societies’ in Leonie Smith and Alfred Archer (eds) Poverty and Moral Psychology
[2023] ‘From Pluralistic Normative Principles to Autonomous Agent Rules‘, Beverly Townsend, Colin Paterson, Arvind Thuruvallore Thattai, Gabriel Nemirovsky, Radu Calinescu, Ana Cavalcanti, Alan Thomas, Minds & Machines, vol.32, pp.638–715. Open Access: download the pdf here.
[2022] with Alfred Archer and Bart Engelen (as second author) ‘The Politics of Envy: Outlaw Emotions in Capitalist Societies’, in the Moral Psychology of Envy, edited by Sara Protasi, Bloomsbury.
[2022] ‘Property-Owning Democracy’ in the Routledge Handbook of PPE, edited by Chris Melenovsky, Routledge.
[2021] ‘Market Socialism, Labour Market Domination, and the State as Employer of Last Resort’, Review of Social Economy, vol.79, issue 3, pp.528–553. Download the pdf here.
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