Background:

Thomas Nørgaard received his DPhil from Oxford in 2002 and has taught at ECLA since then. From 2003-2007 he was Programme Director for the Project Year Programme, and since January 2007 he has been Co-Dean of the College and Academic Affairs. He has done most of his work on ethics and value theory, but he is also developing an interest in the philosophy of education.

Classes taught at ECLA (selection):

AY: The School of Greece: Education, Virtue, and Reason in the Athenian debates 479-323 B.C
PY: Innocence & Experience
Elective: Introduction to Ethics

Project Year Research Topics supervised at ECLA:

The Limits of Optimism in Value Conflict (2002-3)
(Im)partial Motivation in Moral Theory (2004-5)
Agent-Regret as a Way of Assuming Responsibility (2005-6)
On the Value of Food and Eating (2005-6)

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).