Tom Cochrane

Tom Cochrane is a senior lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide. He has been teaching at Flinders since 2018. Prior to this he held lectureships and postdoctoral positions at University of York, University of Sheffield, Queen's University Belfast, and University of Geneva. He is the lead editor of The Emotional Power of Music (Oxford University Press 2013) and the author of The Emotional Mind: A control theory of affective states (Cambridge University Press 2018), The Aesthetic Value of the World (Oxford University Press 2021), Identity in Science Fiction: Brain transplants and other misadventures (Bloomsbury 2025) and the forthcoming Happiness for Mortals: Vulnerability and the good life (Cambridge University Press 2027). His main areas of expertise are the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and well-being.