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Person-Post: Christopher Nathan – Associate Fellows

13th June 2009

is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, having gained a studentship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the project ‘Sharing Nature’s Bounty’. He has an MPhil in Politics from Oxford University, and a BA from York University. His research is in the field of political philosophy, and is concerned with the reasons we have for thinking of individuals, including animals, as equals. He is currently working on the organisation of a conference series, ‘The Foundations of Egalitarian Justice.’ His previous work, ‘Liberalism, Pluralism, Isaiah Berlin, and Truth,’ examined and criticised the argument that liberalism is justified by the plurality of values. He has published a review article on Bernard Williams’ In the Beginning was the Deed in The Oxonian Review of Books (Spring 2006, 5:2), and is a co-founder of the Oxford Movement for Animal Liberties.