Thomas Moynihan

Thomas Moynihan is an intellectual historian and author based in the UK, specialising in the history of ideas about existential risk, extinction, and future-oriented thought. He holds a DPhil from Oriel College, Oxford, where he researched how concerns about human extinction became a serious object of philosophical and scientific inquiry. He is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, a Visiting Research Fellow at St Benet's Hall, Oxford, and a Berggruen Fellow at the Berggruen Institute. His 2020 book X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction (MIT Press/Urbanomic) traces the intellectual history of existential risk from the Enlightenment to the present day. He received a Long-Term Future Fund grant to write a book on the philosophy and history of longtermist thinking, which is forthcoming as The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2026). His writing has appeared in BBC Future, The Guardian, Aeon, Noema Magazine, New Scientist, and other publications.

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