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Thomas N. P. A. Brouwer is a Research Fellow and Research Development Assistant at the University of Leeds' School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science. He currently contributes to the ERC Consolidator Project Group Thinking: New Foundations, led by Robbie Williams, exploring group agency and social ontology. His work focuses on social facts, their structure, and their relationship to other factual domains, employing two-dimensional models to analyze contingency in social reality.
He earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Leeds (2009–2013), supervised by Robbie Williams, Jason Turner, and Robin Le Poidevin. His doctoral research questioned the metaphysical commitments of logical vocabulary. Post-PhD, he was a postdoc at the University of Aberdeen on the AHRC project The Metaphysical Basis of Logic (2013–2015). Returning to Leeds, he affiliated with the Nature of Representation project and the Group Thinking ERC initiative (2015–2017).
Brouwer's research spans social ontology, metaphysics, and philosophy of logic. Key themes include counterfactual reasoning about social facts, cultural relativity of social facts, and collective agency. His recent work applies two-dimensional frameworks to art theory and inconsistency in social realities. He collaborates on hybrid collective intentionality models, integrating material objects into group agency theories.
His grants include ERC and AHRC projects. Future work involves developing a book from his two-dimensional social ontology papers. Beyond academia, he engages in music and tabletop roleplaying games.
