Prof. Jonathan Wolff (FBA) is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy and a Supernumerarcy Fellow at Wolfson College. He is formerly the inaugural Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy having been appointed Blavatnik Chair in Public Policy at the School in 2016. Prior to joining Oxford, Jo was Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Arts and Humanities at UCL. He is a political philosopher who works on questions of inequality, disadvantage and social justice. He has published a book City of Equals (OUP 2024) co-authored with Avner de-Shalit.
His work in recent years has also turned to applied topics such as public safety, disability, gambling, and the regulation of recreational drugs, which he has discussed in his books Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge 2011, second edition 2019) and The Human Right to Health (Norton 2012). His An Introduction to Moral Philosophy and an associated edited volume, Readings in Moral Philosophy, were published by W. W. Norton in 2018, with new editions forthcoming in 2024. Earlier works include Disadvantage (OUP 2007), with Avner de-Shalit; An Introduction to Political Philosophy (OUP, 1996, fourth edition 2023); Why Read Marx Today? (OUP 2002); and Robert Nozick (Polity 1991), together with several edited collections. His recent work has also discussed social equality, poverty, and social exclusion, as well as methodology in political philosophy. He is now working on questions of belonging, nationalism, and civil society.