Thomas R. WellsAbout me  Assistant professor of philosophy, especially business ethics, at the University of Tilburg. (Homepage)Previous positions: lectureships at philosophy or economics departments at Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Groningen, Leiden University, and the University of Witten/Herdecke. Education: natural sciences and philosophy at the University of Durham in the UK (BA & MA) followed by an MA and PhD in philosophy and economics at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics in Rotterdam. Research interests Ethics, especially political philosophy and applied ethics. Philosophy of social science, especially economics. Current and Recent Academic Projects From 2017, Researcher on the Templeton Foundation funded project: What Good Markets Are Good For: Towards a Moral Justification of Free Markets in Europe Founding editor (2008-2015) of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, an international peer-reviewed academic journal on the history, methodology and ethics of economics. Co-Editor of the Adam Smith section in the “Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management” (Springer, forthcoming 2017). Public Philosophy I blog on philosophy, politics and economics at The Philosopher's Beard. I also write for Aeon Magazine, 3 Quarks Daily, The Critique, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and various other non-academic magazines. Contact address |