Teachers

Sam Fremantle (BSc, MA, Phd) specialises in ethics, political philosophy and symbolic logic.  His first degree was Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bristol which was then followed by the MA in Political Philosophy (The Idea of Toleration) at the University of York.  He completed his doctoral thesis on the subject of distributive justice at UCL. Those who are interested in reading it may download Reconstructing Rawls here. He has taught philosophy at Morley College, Lambeth; Birkbeck College, London, the London School of Philosophy, and for the University of London International Programme Ethics: Historical Perspectives course.  He is also a teacher of English for Academic purposes and currently is a Senior Lecturer (teaching EAP) at the Sino-British College, Shanghai. 

Jake Cooper (BA, MA, DipTESOL) is currently a lecturer at the Sino-British College in Shanghai, China. He is module leader for the Sheffield Hallam University programme ‘English for Business Management’ and has supervised dissertations for students at Huddersfield University’s Business School. He originally completed a BA in Economics at the University of Exeter and an MA in Philosophy at King’s College London. He also has both the Certificate and the Diploma in TESOL from Trinity College London. Jake has a great interest in the convergence of economic and philosophical issues, with many figures such as Adam Smith, David Hume, John Stuart Mill and even Jeremy Bentham having written extensively about both.

Regarding his interests specifically in philosophy, Jake mostly focuses on contemporary moral and political philosophy. In particular, philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Burke, Bentham and Mill, as well as current debates in applied ethics. He specialises in particular in Utilitarianism and the works of Jeremy Bentham. Jake is happy to provide tutoring or supervision of dissertations.

For any enquiries, you can contact Jake at: [email protected] 
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