Thomas Moore (he/him)

Thomas is currently working on a WRoCAH funded PhD at the University of Sheffield. This is titled: ‘Can Confucianism’s Relational and Rooted Picture of the Self Help Us Understand the Values of Modern National (Right-Wing) Populist Voters in the UK and US?’. Before this he studied for the MA in Philosophy, at the same department in the
University of Sheffield. Here he worked on four essays that reflect his research interests. These were titled: ‘Is Credentialism a Problem That Confucianism Can Help Us Understand and Address?’, ‘Is Confucianism Compatible with a Laclauian Conception of Democracy?’, ‘Should Economics Increase the Value it Puts on Place?’, and ‘Should a Relational Self That Helps Others Who Are Part of Their Self Identity Be Considered Altruistic and Does This Mean We Should Redefine Altruism?’. He also worked on a dissertation entitled ‘Has the Emergence of a WEIRD Independent Self-Construal Played a Significant Role in the Emergence of National Populism?’. Even longer ago he studied for a BA in Politics and Economics at the University of Nottingham. His undergraduate dissertation here was entitled ‘Can Classical Confucianism Provide Us with a Virtue Ethics Synthesisable with Moral Foundations Theory?’ He in interested in a number of broad areas of philosophy beyond his narrower research focus, including East Asian Philosophy (primarily Confucianism but also Daoism and Buddhism), Political Philosophy, Ethics and Identity (especially relational/social identity).