Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University

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​I joined NYU in 2022, where I am a Julius Silver Professor in the Department of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy. Before that, I was Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center CUNY (2016-2022), and  Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield (2012-2016), where I continue to hold an Honorary Professorship. Previously, I taught for many years at Birkbeck, University of London. 
 
The two main academic projects I'm working on are both in moral philosophy. The first is on blame, apology, and forgiveness, new material from which I will deliver this summer as the 2026 Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Moral Pressures: Bending Time, Shaping Wills; and the second is on the ideas of 'origins' in the ethical philosophy of Bernard Williams,  which I will deliver as the Berkeley Tanner Lectures 2027, "D'ou venons nous?..": Origins in the Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams. I recently completed a philosophical play-within-a-fiction, Short Lease.

Since 2016 I have served as moral philosopher on the UK Spoliation Advisory Panel. I have an Honorary Degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury, and I am a Corresponding Member of the German Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg. In 2016 I was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2020 as a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.