Tom Whyman

Philosopher.

  • I’m an academic philosopher. From September 2026 I’ll be a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool.

    I’ve recently written a book on humanism that’s coming out with Bloomsbury in September 2026. I’m currently developing a project on food justice, as well as plotting out a book on ‘Adorno’s ethics without Adorno’.

    I’ve published a lot on Adorno, and am generally interested in the Frankfurt School (first generation only), philosophy from Kant to Marx, and the ‘Oxford Quartet’ (Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, Murdoch). I’m also interested in the affective dimensions of political activism, especially in the context of the climate crisis.

    I did my PhD at Essex. I taught at Essex for a bit before churning through positions at Warwick, Hull, and Durham. I first came to Liverpool in 2023 to teach in the Philosophy department.

    I live in Gateshead, near Newcastle, because I like maintaining an impractical commute.

    tomwhyman@googlemail.com

    tom.whyman@liverpool.ac.uk