He also edits the philosophical journal Think,[1] which is sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy[2] and published by the Cambridge University Press.

He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and Commerce and in 2008 became the provost of the Centre for Inquiry UK.

At 24 he successfully managed to persuade City University in London to accept him for the BSc in philosophy, despite his lack of A levels.

There he managed to achieve a first-class honours, allowing him to move on to Trinity College, Oxford, to read for a BPhil in philosophy.

He was also for three years a junior research fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy.