Professor of Politics and Philosophy, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick

Professor Tom Sorrell is Professor of Politics and Philosophy in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick. He is also ESRC Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellow (2013-15). Before coming to PAIS in January 2013, he was John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics. He was previously Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre and Professor of Philosophy, University of Essex. In 1996-7 he was Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University. In the Spring of 2013, he will hold the Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He has published monographs in history of philosophy, especially on Hobbes and Descartes; moral and political philosophy and epistemology and philosophy of science; as well as several distinct areas of applied ethics. He led the FP7 Security project DETECTER (on the ethics and human rights issues surrounding the use of detection technologies in counter-terrorism) from 2008-2012, and is leader of several WPs in the current SURVEILLE project (2012-15). He is PI of the major AHRC project, ‘Responsibilities, Ethics and the Financial Crisis' (FinCris) running from 2012-2015. He also contributes to the FP7 IT project ACCOMPANY, on robotics and care companions, and is scientific supervisor of a Marie Curie Fellowship project in the historiography of modern philosophy.

Professor Sorrell also leads the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group, including the Security and Ethics Group, at the University of Warwick.