Having studied philosophy at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of London, Birkbeck College, I am now an employee of the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Rotterdam, where I work as both a teacher and junior researcher in philosophy. Currently I’m engaged in a NWO funded project in social choice theory, looking specifically at personal preference and resource depletion. I see philosophy as an interconnected whole and so I tend to read widely. I also think – like many of my colleagues – that philosophy is sorely absent from much of public discourse. But, then again, I would say that…
Thank you, Will McMahon, for a timeless question. It was Harry Truman who famously demanded someone find him an economist with only one hand. The problem: Truman was fed up with wishy-washy inconclusive answers; he didn’t want an economist to represent both sides of the argument with equal weight. No. He wanted clear-cut, practical advice […]
Is permanence an illusion? Read More
Hello, SE! Thank you so much for your question. It is a question that umbrellas a set of questions which have dogged me for years: Do I have a moral duty to give to charity? If I do, then how much, and to whom?* What role ought the State occupy in such charitable endeavours? And
Is charity pointless? Read More
