Alan Thomas is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK. Educated at King’s College, Cambridge, (as an Entrance and twice Senior Scholar) Harvard University (as a Kennedy Scholar) and Oxford University, Thomas was previously Professor of Ethics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He has been a Visiting Research Professor at the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University; a Visiting Research Professor at St. Louis University in the USA in 2015; a School Visitor at the Australian National University in 2013; a Visiting Research Professor at Tulane University (Murphy Fellow) from 2009-2010); a Visiting Scholar in the philosophy department at UBC, Vancouver,(2007-2008) and a lecturer/senior lecturer at the University of Kent (1998 – 2009). He previously taught at the universities of Oxford, Keele, Birmingham and King’s College, London. He was the Principal Investigator for a Templeton Foundation project on ‘the Moral Psychology of Inequality’ in 2016–18 that forms the basis of his next book, co-authored with Alfred Archer and Bart Engelen. ‘Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies’ will be published in 2023. In 2019 Thomas was be funded by the UK’s Independent Social Research Foundation for a project on ‘Plebeian Finance: Re-thinking the Governance Structures of the Financial Sector’. Thomas is currently the ethics lead for the UKRI Project on ‘Trustworthy Autonomous Systems’ working on the Ethics of AI (2020–2024).