Jack Hume

I'm a Lecturer in Ethics at King's College London.

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:

Ethics IIA (KCL 2nd Year Course, 2026)
Gender and Philosophy (KCL 3rd Year and MA Course, 2025, with Facundo Rodríguez, 2025)
"Right to Health" component of PPE Health (UCL MA Course, 2023)

Guest Lecturing:

Europe: Enlightenment and Empire (UCL and Fulda University MA Course, 2025)
Free Speech and Theories of Autonomy (UCL 3rd Year and MA Course, 2022 + 2023)

Post Graduate Teaching Assistant:

Aesthetics (UCL 2nd Year Course, 2025)
Protecting Dignity (UCL 2nd Year Course, 2024)
PPE Health (UCL MA Course, 2023)
Ethics (UCL 2nd Year Course, 2022 + 2023)
Free Speech and Theories of Autonomy (UCL 3rd Year and MA Course, 2022 + 2023)

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

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