Dr Karim Esmail

Educated at London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard.    He was awarded a British Academy Studentship and the Gregg Bury Prize (Philosophy) at Cambridge.

He was a Research Fellow at Oxford and Burney Student at Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard.  

He lectures at both Cambridge and Oxford.

Alongside international articles, he is the author of four volumes of an original philosophical work on the nature and existence of God.  (The third and fourth volumes include an appendix on the nature of free action.)   

He has taught courses for the Institute in a number of areas.    These courses include ‘Great Ancient and Medieval Philosophers’, ‘Great Modern Philosophers’, ‘The Nature of Knowledge’, ‘The Problem of Evil’, and ‘Philosophy of Religion’.   

Classes with him consist of clearly structured lectures and an encouragement to ask questions and to make comments.   Students are assisted in their understanding of the subject and in their critical engagement with it.