Nikhil Krishnan
Associate Professor
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Graduate Diploma in Law,
University of London - DPhil (Philosophy), University of Oxford
- BPhil (Philosophy), University of Oxford
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BA (Philosophy, Politics and Economics),
University of Oxford -
BA (Economics), St Joseph’s College,
Bangalore University
Areas of Interest
Ethics | political philosophy, legal philosophy | aesthetics | history of philosophy
Publications
‘In Defense of the Moderate’, New Yorker (April 2026)
‘Modernity is killing the private life’, New Statesman (May 2025)
‘The Real Meaning of Humanity’s Origin Story’, Foreign Policy (April 2024)
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900–60 (2023, Profile)
‘Williams’ Debt to Wittgenstein’, in van Ackeren & Queloz (eds.), Bernard Williams on
Philosophy and History, Oxford University Press, 2025 – with Matthieu Queloz
‘“My First and Only Sight”: Modernism in Indian Poetry’ in R. Chaudhuri (ed.), A
History of Indian Poetry in English (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
‘John Rawls and Oxford Philosophy’, Modern Intellectual History (2021): 1–20
‘“You’re a Brick”: Colloquialism and the History of Moral Concepts’, History of
European Ideas 45, no. 3 (2019): 410–420
Awards and Recognitions
Rhodes Scholarship, University of Oxford (2007-09)
Clarendon Scholarship, University of Oxford (2009–13)
Lord Mansfield Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn (2021–22)
