Tom Jones

Director of Research, University of St Andrews

Tom Jones is director of research in the School of English at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, UK. His books include an edition of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man (2016) and George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life (2021).

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Written by Tom Jones

Painting depicting the Garden of Eden with Adam, Eve, animals, an angel, trees and a divine face in the clouds.

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Thinkers and theories

On the necessity of obedience

George Berkeley was a visionary immaterialist. And a philosopher whose views on subordination to God legitimised slavery

Tom Jones