Tom Sinclair

Tom has been a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Wadham since 2013. He studied at Oxford and UCL and taught at Lady Margaret Hall and at the University of Manchester before coming to Wadham.

Tom teaches undergraduate tutorials in moral and political philosophy, including the first-year Moral Philosophy paper and the Ethics, Practical Ethics, and Theory of Politics papers, and has frequently given the core Ethics lectures for the University. He is pleased to supervise undergraduate dissertations in any area of moral or political philosophy.

At postgraduate level, Tom offers B.Phil essay and thesis supervision in ethics and political philosophy, and often convenes seminars in these areas too, including the B.Phil Pro-Seminar. He has supervised doctoral dissertations on many topics, including the philosophy of human rights, Rawls and political liberalism, Kant and republicanism, and the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Tom writes on political philosophy and ethics and on the relations between them. In political philosophy, he is particularly interested in questions about the justification of political rule and force and the relation between political authority and justice. In ethics, his work focuses on understanding the contours of everyday ethical thinking and practice. Tom’s recent work in these areas includes papers on effective altruism, on Kantian political philosophy, on rights, on the morality of hypocrisy, and on the enforceability of moral duties.

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