Teaching

PhD Supervision

I am available as supervisor for projects that relate to my interest. My approach can best be described as analytical political philosophy (broadly conceived), but I am also interested in philosophy of the social sciences and in projects with a “PPE” identity. I like research in political philosophy that builds bridges to game theory, social choice theory, or behavioural economics. I have recently worked on self-serving biases, on the holism-individualism debate in the social sciences, on epistemic democracy, on ethical issues related to climate change, and on theories of social norms.

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I am joint first supervisor for Shira Ahissar (with Alex Voorhoeve). I am lead supervisor for Felix Westeren, Yusuf Khan and Emma Obermair. My previous PhD students are:

Max Afnan took his PhD in 2024 and is now an LSE 100 Fellow.
Jared Finnegan took his PhD in 2019 and is now a lecturer at UCL.
Fergus Green took his PhD in 2019 and is now a lecturer at UCL.
Mollie Gerver finished her PhD in 2016. She is a lecturer at King’s College London.
Nimrod Kovner defended in 2017 and currently on a Post Doc at Hebrew University.
Simon Beard (co-supervision), now at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

I teach courses on all levels, from undergraduates to doctoral students. I cover normative political theory, foundations and methods of political theory, philosophy of the social sciences and the political philosophy of environmental change.