Simon Hailwood

Simon Hailwood is a British philosopher whose research concerns moral philosophy, political philosophy, environmental philosophy, environmental ethics, political realism, and pragmatism. He is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, which he joined in 2004 as a lecturer.^[1][2]

Hailwood completed a PhD at Liverpool; his thesis, Exploring Nozick: Beyond Anarchy, State and Utopia, was submitted in 1995.^[3] The project addressed the moral philosophy of Robert Nozick, and was the basis of Hailwood's book of the same name, published in 1996 by Avebury.^[4] He went on to publish How to be a Green Liberal: Nature, Value and Liberal Philosophy, a 2003 book about green liberalism, with McGill-Queen's University Press;^[5][6] and Alienation and Nature in Environmental Philosophy, a 2015 book on environmental philosophy, with Cambridge University Press.^[7][8][9]

He was previously the reviews editor (2009–12), associate editor (2012–15) and then managing editor (2015–21) of the journal Environmental Values.^[1]