https://alanthomas.academia.edu Alan Thomas (born 1964) is a British philosopher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York.
Thomas was educated at the Graig Comprehensive School, Llanelli, before undergraduate study at King's College, Cambridge.
Thomas began his career at King's College, London before taking up a lectureship at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
In 2019 Thomas was funded by the UK's Independent Social Research Foundation for work on the regulation of the financial sector.
He is currently part of a multi-department (Philosophy, Computing, Law) and multi-university research team working on the UKRI (EPSRC) funded project on the resilience of autonomous systems.