I'm a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at University College London. I'm also the deputy director and an associate researcher on The Spontaneity of Freedom Project.

At the moment, I'm writing mainly on authenticity, which is the subject of my thesis project: "A New Ethics of Authenticity". My supervisor is Jonathan Gingerich. 

I'll be a Visting Scholar at Yale University in spring 2027 as part of the Yale-UCL Exchange Programme, during which I'll be working with Laurie Paul.

Prior to starting my PhD, I completed the MPhil Stud at UCL. My master's thesis was on the absence of a theory of meaning from Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy of language (which you can find here). 

Before that, I did my undergraduate studies at King's College London, also in philosophy.

I'm originally from Newcastle upon Tyne. 

Email: david.chandler.22@ucl.ac.uk