Biography

Tom joined Northeastern University London in 2022 where he is Head of Philosophy and Assistant Director of the Doctoral School. He has a PhD from King’s College London, a MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Philosophy from The University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Before starting his PhD, he worked as a researcher for the Early Intervention Foundation (now Foundations) assessing the evidence behind mental health and parenting programmes.

Awards

The Jacobsen Essay Prize (Joint Winner)
Peter Goldie Award
London Arts & Humanities Partnership AHRC Doctoral Research Grant
LSE Graduate Support Scheme Grant
Elizabeth Wegner Prize
Michael Polanyi Logic Prize

Research

Tom works on topics in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and epistemology. He is interested in questions like: what is the relationship between knowledge, probability, and indeterminacy? How does the meaning of our words shift from context to context? How should we evaluate decisions with the benefit of hindsight?

Published papers

Beevers, Tom. “Non-Propositionalism and the Suppositional Rule.” Erkenntnis 89, no. 6 (August 1, 2024): 2193–2214. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00625-8.

———. “Vagueness, Conditionals and Context Sensitivity.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 105, no. 3 (2024): 354–69. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12461.

———. “Vagueness-Induced Counterexamples to Modus Tollens.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 120, no. 3 (October 1, 2020): 405–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoaa005.

Popular Philosophy and Policy Reports

Beevers, Tom; Pike, Lottie, “The Folklore Trilogy and The Female Point of View” in Philosophy and Taylor Swift (2024), Blackwell’s Philosophy and Popular Culture Series.

Lewing, Ben, Lara Doubell, Tom Beevers, and Daniel Acquah. “Building Trusted Relationships for Vulnerable Children and Young People with Public Services.” Report. London: Early Intervention Foundation, February 2018. http://www.eif.org.uk/publication/building-trusted-relationships-for-vulnerable-children-and-young-people-with-public-services-2/.

Teaching

Tom loves teaching and has taught a wide array of courses relating to epistemology, philosophy of science, logic, critical thinking, and ethics.