After receiving an MA in Theology from McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Canada, Hal went on to earn a BA in philosophy from the University of Toronto and then went on to read for the BPhil at the University of Oxford. Hal’s philosophical work focuses on ancient and contemporary ethics, the relationship between ethics and literature, and the philosophy of economics and the nature and place of the humanities in our contemporary age. He and his wife Hannah live in the little village of Great Haseley, South Oxfordshire.