Christopher Thomas is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has research interests in the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza and Simone Weil, with his most recent articles including ‘On Religious and Cultural Objects: Articulate and Inarticulate Bodies in Spinoza’s Philosophy of Nature’ in European Journal of Philosophy, and ‘Simone Weil: The Ethics of Affliction and the Aesthetics of Attention’, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies.