Thomas Bullemore

Thomas Bullemore is a DPhil candidate and Roche Scholar at New College, supervised by Professors David Enoch and Timothy Williamson. Having completed his LLB, he lectured in legal philosophy at the University of Chile. He also practiced and argued cases before Chilean courts, and read for an MPhil in Law here in Oxford. Currently, Thomas works as a research assistant to Professor Ruth Chang, contributing to projects on rationality, hard choices, and the role of values in AI.

His doctoral research explores some hyperintensionality and underdetermination puzzles that come up in the logico-semantic agenda of moral realism. He addresses these puzzles by recruiting (and co-opting) a framework of possible worlds, higher-order logic, radical interpretation, and decision theory. Substantively, he defends a coarse- over a fine-grained individuation of normative propositions, a nominalist over a robust ontology of normative property-talk and related universals, and an externalist over a neo-descriptivist metasemantics for normative predicates (their referential stability). In jurisprudence, he articulates a positivist in spirit reduction of the legal to the non-legal via radical interpretation of shared mental content.

Lecturer in Legal Philosophy, University of Chile, 2019—; Diego Portales University, 2020-2021

'Are There Any Legal Facts?,' Graduate Conference in Political and Legal Theory, University of Warwick, February 10, 2024.

'Grounding Collective Imaginings,' Theological, Metaphysical, and Phenomenological Approaches to Artistic Creation and Inspiration, University of Cambridge, February 15, 2024. 

'Realism, Normativity, and the Benacerraf Problem: A Metasemantic Way Out,' PLP Graduate Forum, University College London, February 26, 2025.

Roche Scholarship, New College, University of Oxford                              

Distinction/No Corrections in MPhil, University of Oxford