Professor Timothy Mulgan has been presented the Humanities Aronui Medal

Professor Timothy Mulgan FRSNZ, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, has been presented the Humanities Aronui Medal for prolific, original and influential contributions to moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. Tim has developed new ways of thinking about our obligations to distant strangers and future people. He challenges optimistic complacency by asking how people inhabiting different possible futures might reimagine ethics. He defends a provocative non-human-centred account of cosmic purpose and he asks how we might find meaning at humanity's end.