Junior Lecturer in Philosophy, Magdalen College, Oxford 1988-9: Lecturer in Philosophy, Hertford College, Oxford
1989-91
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Honorary Junior Research Fellow, University College, Oxford
1991-
Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford 2003-: Associate Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
2003-5
Leverhulme Major Research Fellow
2003-13
Delegate, Oxford University Press 2008-: Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
2010-11
Findlay Visiting Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Boston University
2015-16
British Academy Thank-offering-to-Britain Fellow
2017-18
President, Mind Committee
2017-20
Professorial Fellow, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
2020-
Honorary Professor, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
2015
The Cosmos of Duty: Henry Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics (Clarendon Press)
2018
Moral Evil in Practical Ethics (ed. with Shlomit Harrosh) (Routledge)
2019
History of Ethics (ed. with Daniel Star, Wiley-Blackwell)
2019
Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Clarendon Press)
My research is mainly on ethics, including its history (especially ancient ethics and British moral philosophy since Hobbes), ethical theory, metaethics, and practical ethics.
I supervise doctoral and masters students, mainly in ethics.
