Tom Whyman is an academic philosopher and writer. Whyman is a freelance writer and teaches philosophy part-time at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...

. He has undertaken studies in the following fields:

Frankfurt School The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical theory. It is associated with the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, Institute for Social Research founded in 1923 at the University of Frankfurt am Main ...

critical theory,

German idealism German idealism is a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

, Kierkegaard, and contemporary

ethical naturalism Ethical naturalism (also called moral naturalism or naturalistic cognitivistic definism) is the meta-ethical view that holds that moral properties and facts are reducible to natural properties and can be studied through empirical or scientific me ...

. Whyman was born in

Frimley Frimley is a town in the Borough of Surrey Heath, in Surrey, England. It lies approximately south-west of central London. The town is of Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Saxon origin, although it is not listed in Domesday Book of 1086. Hi ...

, Surrey, and currently lives in

Gateshead Gateshead () is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, ...

. He published 'Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster', which discusses the philosophy of hope and despair, in relation to parenthood and the upcoming birth of his child.

Books

''Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster'', Repeater Books: ISBN 9781913462253 ''The German Ideology: A New Abridgement'', Repeater Books: ISBN 978-1913462956

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whyman, Tom Living people Frankfurt School philosophers Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of the University of Essex German idealism 21st-century English philosophers 21st-century English male writers