Tom Sorell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tom Sorell
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Oct 24, 1951(1951-10-24)
Age	73
Birthplace	Mexico
Country	Mexico
Horoscope	Scorpio

Tom Sorell Biography

Tom Sorell is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on October 24, 1951 in Mexico, Mexico.

Tom Sorell (born 24 October 1951) is a Canadian philosopher based in the UK. His interests range from the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science to early modern philosophy, ethics (including applied ethics) and political philosophy. He is noted for his writings on Hobbes, scientism and applied ethics. Since 2008, he has worked in ethics and technology both as a researcher and as a consultant. He is the author of Hobbes (1986); Descartes (1987); Moral Theory and Capital Punishment (1987); Scientism (1992); Business Ethics (with John Hendry) (1994); Moral Theory and Anomaly (1999); Descartes Reinvented (2005); and Emergencies and Politics (2013).

Sorell held temporary lectureships at St. Anne’s, Balliol, and Queen’s Colleges in Oxford in the mid-1970s before joining the philosophy department at the Open University in 1979, working alongside Rosalind Hursthouse and Janet Radcliffe Richards. In 1992, he was appointed Reader in Philosophy at Essex University, and was promoted to Professor in 1996. From 2003-5 he acted as Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre at Essex. He moved to Birmingham University in 2006 as John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics. In 2013 he became Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Warwick University, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group. He was a Faculty Fellow in the Ethics and the Professions program at Harvard in 1996-7, and a visiting professor in philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013.

Tom Sorell Net Worth

Tom Sorell is one of the richest Philosopher from Mexico. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tom Sorell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sorell was born in Mexico City in 1951 to European migrants. The family moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1956 and to Montreal in 1961. He attended the High School of Montreal, entered McGill University in 1968, and graduated in 1972, when he won the Prince of Wales Gold Medal in philosophy. In 1973, he started the BPhil in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. He was taught by John McDowell, Gareth Evans, John Mackie, and Simon Blackburn. Supervised by B.F. McGuinness, he wrote a thesis on the deep continuity between Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and his very late work, On Certainty. After taking the BPhil, Sorell wrote a thesis under the supervision of David Pears expounding and defending a version of the causal theory of knowledge. He was awarded the Oxford DPhil in 1978.

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Tristan-Samuel Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Mexico. Tom Sorell celebrates birthday on October 24 of every year.

Who is Thomas Sorrell?

Burlington, Vermont, U.S. Thomas W. Sorrell (November 22, 1917 – March 18, 1984) was a career law enforcement officer from Vermont. He was most notable for his service as Vermont’s U.S. Marshal for Vermont from 1961 to 1969.

Which political philosopher viewed government primarily as a device for

ensuring collective security?

Thomas Hobbes , English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan (1651). Hobbes viewed government primarily as a device for ensuring collective security.

What government did John Locke believe in?

Locke favored a representative government such as the English Parliament, which had a hereditary House of Lords and an elected House of Commons. But he wanted representatives to be only men of property and business.

Did Thomas Hobbes believe in materialism?

Hobbes was thus a mechanical materialist : He held that nothing but material things are real, and he thought that the subject matter of all the natural sciences consists of the motions of material things at different levels of generality.

Who is better Hobbes or Locke?

Hobbes was a proponent of Absolutism, a system which placed control of the state in the hands of a single individual, a monarch free from all forms of limitations or accountability. Locke, on the other hand, favored a more open approach to state-building.