Jack Hume

I am a political philosopher currently based at King's College London, where I am a Lecturer in Ethics.

My current work explores the ethics of arts and cultural funding in liberal democracies and the liberal tradition. I write about why governments should fund art and cultural heritage, issues of fairness and equality that arise in doing so, and how these relate to foundational questions in political philosophy.

I completed my PhD at University College London in 2025, where I also completed my MPhil in Philosophy. I did my BA (Hons) in Philosophy & Psychology at the University of Sydney.

Here is my cv.

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Publications

"Openness, Priority, and Free Museums", Journal of Applied Philosophy (2025)
"Data Ethics in an Emergency”, in Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making: The pandemic and beyond, ed. Caroline Redhead and Melanie Smallman (Manchester University Press: 2024; co-authored with Melanie Smallman, Cian O'Donovan, and James Wilson)
"Neutrality, Cultural Literacy, and Arts Funding", Ergo: An Open-Access Journal of Philosophy (2024)
"Providing ethics advice in a pandemic, in theory and in practice", Bioethics (2023; co-authored with James Wilson, Melanie Smallman, and Cian O'Donovan)

In progress

A paper about justice and its connection to arts funding and cultural heritage
A paper about what it means to democratise heritage, and the moral, epistemic, and aesthetic benefits of doing so
A paper about the epistemic costs of "schematic justificatory methods" in political philosophy
A paper about social media regulation as a form of cultural policy

Teaching

Module coordination:

5AANA005: Ethics IIA (KCL, Autumn 2026 expected)
6AANB039 / 7AAN6037: Gender and Philosophy (KCL, Spring 2025, with Facundo Rodríguez)
"Right to Health" component of PHIL0059: Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health (UCL, Autumn 2023, Master’s students)

Guest Lecturing (UCL):

EISPS Summer School: Europe: Enlightenment and Empire (Summer 2025, Master’s students from Fulda University and UCL)
PHIL0067: Free Speech and Theories of Autonomy (Autumn 2022 + 2023)

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (UCL):

PHIL0009: Aesthetics (Spring 2025)
PHIL0185: Protecting Dignity (Spring 2024)
PHIL0024: Ethics (Spring 2022 + 2023)
PHIL0067: Free Speech and Theories of Autonomy (Autumn 2022 + 2023)

Nominated for UCL’s Inspiring Teaching Delivery Award in 2023.

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