Thomas Froy

• Dissertation title: ‘The Subject of Dwelling in Contemporary Jewish Thought’
  • Supervisors: Professor Vivian Liska and Professor Arthur Cools

Research Master in Philosophy, Universiteit Antwerpen (First class; Magna cum laude), 2021

• Thesis title: ‘Acts of Preservation – The Problem of the Dwelling and the State in the works of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Michel Foucault’
  • Supervisors: Professor Vivian Liska and Professor Arthur Cools

Master’s Degree in Philosophy, KU Leuven (First class; Summa cum laude), 2020

• Thesis title: ‘The Vulnerable Community: What is inclusive world-building?’
  • Supervisors: Professor Julia Jansen and Dr Liesbeth Schoonheim

Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, King’s College London (Second Class; Honours), 2019

• Thesis title: “‘What is this madness we’re talking about?”: an examination of the ‘subject’ of the Foucault-Derrida exchange’
  • Supervisor: Professor Alexander Bird

Publications

• ‘A Few Words of Welcome’, in Technology and Language, 2021

• ‘Every Aesthetics’, in Aesthetic Investigations, 2022

• ‘Dwelling Today: eruv, sukkah, Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida’, in Philosophy and Architecture: Even in clouds roots are born, 2022

• ‘Rereading Notions of ‘Reciprocity’ and ‘Hospitality’ in Martin Buber and Jacques Derrida’, in Revista portuguesa de filosofia, 2022

• ‘Jacques Derrida: Hospitality, Volume 1’, on HannahArendt.net, 2025

• ‘The Simmelian Subject: Comparing the Post-Subjective in Simmel and Heidegger’, in Perspectives, 2026

• ‘The Subject of Hospitality: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida’, in Inscriptions (accepted: forthcoming), 2026

• ‘Heidegger’, in Encyclopedia of Scepticism and Jewish Tradition (accepted, forthcoming), 2026

• ‘After Exile: Rethinking Home in Levinas’, in Levinas Studies (accepted: forthcoming), 2026

Recent conferences and workshops

• Home and Exile in Levinas and Beyond (Department of Philosophy, Vytautus Magnus University; participant), 2023

• Workshop on Talmud and Contemporary Thought: Exile (Institute for Jewish Studies, Universiteit Antwerpen; participant), 2023

• Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona (Leiden Jewish Studies Association, Universiteit Leiden; speaker), 2023

• An Invitation to Dwell: (Up)rootedness and Interconnectedness in Contemporary Ecological Thinking (Department of Philosophy, Universiteit Antwerpen; organiser), 2024

• Forms of Dwelling: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives from Antiquity to Present (L’Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro; speaker), 2025

• Aesth/Ethics: Hospitality in Art and Society (Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts; speaker), 2025

Languages

• English (native); French (basic); German (basic); Dutch (basic)

References

• Vivian Liska (vivian.liska@uantwerpen.be)
• Arthur Cools (arthur.cools@uantwerpen.be)