Background:

Thomas Nørgaard received his DPhil in Philosophy from Oxford in 2002 and has taught at ECLA since then. His main interests are ethics, value theory and educational philosophy. Since 2003 he has been heavily involved in ECLA's organizational development and, along with Peter Hajnal, responsible for the institution's curriculum. From 2003-2007 he was Director of Project Year Programme and member of ECLA's Planning Group. Since January 2007 he has been Co-Dean of the College and Academic Affairs and Managing Director. With Peter Hajnal he is the originator of the Value Studies approach to liberal education that has been developed by the ECLA faculty since 2007. Under their joint leadership the BA in Value Studies was introduced 2009 and the institution recognized as a German University in 2011. Since 2004, Nørgaard has given talks around the world on liberal education in general and ECLA's curricular philosophy in particular.

Classes taught at ECLA (selection):

Core Courses:
The School of Greece: Education, Virtue, and Reason in the Athenian debates 479-323 B.C
Innocence & Experience
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Electives:
Introduction to Ethics
Ends and Means
Fundamental Problems in 20th Century Ethics and Political Theory

Project Year Research Topics supervised at ECLA:
On the Value of Food and Eating
Agent-Regret as a Way of Assuming Responsibility
(Im)partial Motivation in Moral Theory
The Limits of Optimism in Value Conflict
Moral Education

Publications:

'Kolnai's Idea of Emotional Presentation' in Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai, edited by Zoltan Balazs and Francis Dunlop (Central European Press, 2005).

'Iris Murdoch' in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, edited by Edward Craig (Routledge, 2002).