Prof Theron Pummer

Director of Research

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2432

Email

tgp4@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

PhD supervision

• Marta Bax
• Ida Miczke

Selected publications

• Open access

  Compensated altruism and moral autonomy

  Pummer, T., 10 Jul 2025, In: Social Philosophy and Policy. 42, 1, p. 186-203

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Introduction to special issue on effective altruism

  Pummer, T. G., 18 Apr 2024, In: Public Affairs Quarterly. 38, 1, p. 1-2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Open access

  Rescue and necessity: a reply to Quong

  Joseph, J. & Pummer, T., 24 Aug 2023, In: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. 25, 2, p. 413-419 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The rules of rescue: cost, distance, and effective altruism

  Pummer, T. G., 23 Jan 2023, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 253 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Contrastive consent and secondary permissibility

  Pummer, T., 12 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Early View, 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Lesser-evil justifications: a reply to Frowe

  Gordon-Solmon, K. & Pummer, T. G., 4 Aug 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Law and Philosophy. First Online, 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Saving the many or the few: the moral relevance of numbers

  Pummer, T. G., 9 Oct 2022, 1000-Word Philosophy.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Open access

  Sorites on what matters

  Pummer, T., 20 Jan 2022, Ethics and existence: the legacy of Derek Parfit. McMahan, J., Campbell, T., Goodrich, J. & Ramakrishnan, K. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, Vol. 2.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Impermissible yet praiseworthy

  Pummer, T., 1 Jul 2021, In: Ethics. 131, 4, p. 697–726

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Supererogation and conditional obligation

  Muñoz, D. & Pummer, T., 7 Sept 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophical Studies. First Online, 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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