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). 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, some material from which I delivered this summer as the 2026 Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford; and other material from which I will give as the 2026 John Dewey Lectures at Columbia in the Fall. The second project 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've also been enjoying writing a philosophical play-within-a-fiction, Short Lease.

Since 2016 I have served as moral philosopher on the UK Spoliation Advisory Panel. I am a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Member of the German Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg. In 2018 I was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Kent at Canterbury.