Truth, Trust, and Demo­cracy | Michael Hannon (University of Nottingham)

Michael Hannon is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and Director of The Aristotelian Society. For the 2025–26 academic year, he holds a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the project Lies of the Electorate: The Role of Insincere Discourse in Politics. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. Previously, he was a Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2022-3), as well as a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Ethics at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University (2021-2). Before joining Nottingham in 2019, he served as Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy in London.