William M. R. Simpson is a Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and a Research Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. He has a doctorate in philosophy from Cambridge and a doctorate in physics from St Andrews. He was awarded the Cardinal Mercier Prize in Philosophy in 2021 and received the Expanded Reason Award in 2020. He is the author of Hylomorphism (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Surprises in Theoretical Casimir Physics (Springer, 2014). He is also co-editor of Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature (Routledge 2021), and Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge 2017).
