I am Pascal, a DPhil Candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford, where I am pursuing research in Political and Moral Philosophy.
I am currently the David N Lyon Scholar in Politics at Oriel College, where I am working on my thesis The Ethos of Equality of Opportunity. The thesis aims to illuminate an ethos which both individuals and institutions should strive to adopt if equality of opportunity is to be promoted in practice and bridges the normative gap between interpersonal and political morality, considering in some cases coercively enforceable rules which a commitment to equal opportunity supports and morally admirable or obligatory acts in others.
Prior to joining Oxford, I completed a MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and a conversion MA in Philosophy at Birkbeck College. In addition to my interests in Distributive Justice and Egalitarianism, my work also intersects with topics in Normative and Applied Ethics, as well as Public Reason and Social Epistemology. I currently hold a lectureship in Politics at The Queen’s College, where I teach political theory and philosophy.
