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According to Wikipedia, Alan Thomas 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 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 University of York in 2016. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia , a fellow of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University , a visiting fellow of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University and a visiting professor at St. Louis University . His research has been funded by the AHRC and the Templeton Foundation . 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 and multi-university research team working on the UKRI funded project on the resilience of autonomous systems.

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Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy (2016) (58)
Exemplars and nudges: Combining two strategies for moral education (2018) (50)
The Case for Cognitivism (2006) (29)
Republic of Equals (2017) (25)
Howard Barker: Modern Allegorist (1992) (23)
Nietzsche and moral fictionalism (2012) (23)
Rawls and political realism: Realistic utopianism or judgement in bad faith? (2017) (23)
Cohen's Critique of Rawls: A Double Counting Objection (2011) (20)
An adverbial theory of consciousness (2003) (16)
Thick concepts, analysis and reductionism (2013) (15)
Reasonable Partiality and the Agent’s Point of View (2005) (15)
Value and Context: The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge (2010) (14)
Another Particularism: Reasons, Status and Defaults (2011) (13)
The Genealogy of Epistemic Virtue Concepts (2008) (12)
Perceptual Presence and the Productive Imagination (2009) (11)
Kant, McDowell and the Theory of Consciousness (1997) (11)
Value and Context (2006) (11)
Virtue ethics and an ethics of care: complementary or in conflict? (2011) (10)
Property‐Owning Democracy, Liberal Republicanism, and the Idea of an Egalitarian Ethos (2012) (10)
Sen on Rawls’s “transcendental institutionalism”: An analysis and critique (2014) (9)
Thomas Nagel: Subjective and objective (2008) (8)
Rawls, Adam Smith, and an Argument From Complexity To Property-Owning Democracy (2012) (7)
Nagel's `Paradox' of Equality and Partiality (2003) (5)
Practical Reasoning and Normative Relevance: A Reply to McKeever and Ridge (2007) (5)
Full Employment, Unconditional Basic Income and the Keynesian Critique of Rentier Capitalism (2020) (5)
Financial Markets and Martingales: Observations on Science and Speculation (2003) (5)
Internal Reasons and Contractualist Impartiality (2002) (4)
The Permissibility of Prerogative Grounded Incentives in Liberal Egalitarianism (2005) (3)
Giving Each Person Her Due: Taurek Cases and Non-Comparative Justice (2012) (3)
9 Consequentialism and the Subversion of Pluralism (2000) (2)
Realism and the Absolute Conception (2019) (2)
Liberal republicanism and the role of civil society (1997) (2)
Market socialism, labour market domination, and the state as employer of last resort (2021) (2)
IV—Values, Reasons and Perspectives (1997) (2)
Rawls, Piketty and the New Inequality (2016) (1)
McDowell on Transcendental Arguments, Scepticism and Error Theory (2014) (1)
Freeman on Property-Owning Democracy (2020) (1)
Rawls on Economic Liberty and the Choice of Systems of Social Cooperation (2020) (1)
Williams on Integrity, Ground Projects and Reasons to Be Moral (2015) (1)
Property-owning Democracy Versus Market Socialism (2016) (1)
Pettit, Philip.On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 347. $74.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper). (2016) (0)
Practical Irrationality, Reflexivity and Sartre's Regress Argument (2007) (0)
Thomas Nagel: Normative ethics: Nagel's hybrid ethical theory (2008) (0)
A Realistic Utopianism (2016) (0)
Introduction: Consciousness in historical perspective (2003) (0)
Tradition Based Moral Enquiry (2006) (0)
Should Epistemic Injustices Be Redressed by the “Corrective Virtues”? (2018) (0)
Classic Liberalism and Property-owning Democracy (2016) (0)
Inequality and Globalization (2016) (0)
Rawls, Republicanism, and Liberal-Republicanism (2016) (0)
Edmundson on Neo-Liberalism : Towards a Left Rawlsian Political Economy (2019) (0)
Political Liberalism and Civic Republicanism (2006) (0)
Justice, Pareto, and Equality (2016) (0)
The Problem of Moral Knowledge (2006) (0)
Three Forms of Republican Egalitarianism (2016) (0)
Howard Barker: Politics and Desire, an expository study of his drama and poetry, 1969-87 by David Ian Rabey (review) (2013) (0)
Bernard Williams: The Nonobjectivist Critique of Moral Knowledge (2007) (0)
Rawls’s Critique of Welfare-State Capitalism (2016) (0)
Toward a Pluralistic Commonwealth (2016) (0)
Non‐Objectivism and Internal Realism (2006) (0)
A Case of Plagarism (1992) (0)
Should Generalism Be Our Regulative Ideal (2015) (0)
Fellow-Feeling and the Moral LifeBy Joseph Duke Filonowicz (2009) (0)
Ética de la Virtud y ética del cuidado: ¿complementarias o conflictivas? (2011) (0)
Liberal-Republicanism and the Basic Liberties (2016) (0)
Values, Norms, and the Practical (2006) (0)
The Theatre of Tom Stoppard by Anthony Jenkins (review) (2014) (0)
Thomas Nagel: Justice, equality and partiality (2008) (0)
Thomas Nagel: Placing the mind in the physical world (2008) (0)
Thomas Nagel: Practical objectivity, freedom and a realistic autonomy (2008) (0)
How Admiring Moral Exemplars Can Ruin Your Life : The Case of Conrad’s “Lord Jim” (2019) (0)
Social Justice, American Style? (2013) (0)
Across the Threshold: Laura McPhee's Calcutta (2014) (0)
A Critique of Expressivism (2006) (0)
G. A. Cohen’s Neo-Marxist Critique of Rawls (2016) (0)
Prerogatives, Incentives, and Institutionalism: A Reply to Brian Berkey (2015) (0)
The Demands of Democratic Ownership (2017) (0)
A Liberal-Republican Economic System (2016) (0)
Graham Priest, Beyond the Limits of Thought , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp 274, Hb £35.00 (1996) (0)
A Contextual Model of Moral Justification (2006) (0)
Howard Barker's Theatre of Seduction by Charles Lamb (review) (2013) (0)
Political Liberalism and Contextualism (2006) (0)
Minimalism versus quasi-realism : Why the minimalist has a dialectical advantage (1997) (0)
Social Justice, American Style? (2013) (0)
Moral Belief and the Possibility of Error (2006) (0)
Giving each her due : Taurek cases and non-comparative justice (2011) (0)

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