Otto Lehto is a social and moral philosopher whose current work focuses on PPE, naturalism, complexity theory, evolutionary theory, political philosophy, ethics, distributive justice, social epistemology, and human enhancement.
He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at NYU School of Law (2022-), a Research Fellow at NYU Center for Bioethics (2025-2026), and an affiliated Junior Researcher at University of Freiburg's FRIBIS Institute (2021-). He gained his PhD in Political Economy from King’s College London (2022) on the topic of Complex Adaptation and Permissionless Innovation: An Evolutionary Approach to Universal Basic Income. He…
Otto Lehto is a social and moral philosopher whose current work focuses on PPE, naturalism, complexity theory, evolutionary theory, political philosophy, ethics, distributive justice, social epistemology, and human enhancement.
He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at NYU School of Law (2022-), a Research Fellow at NYU Center for Bioethics (2025-2026), and an affiliated Junior Researcher at University of Freiburg's FRIBIS Institute (2021-). He gained his PhD in Political Economy from King’s College London (2022) on the topic of Complex Adaptation and Permissionless Innovation: An Evolutionary Approach to Universal Basic Income. He earned a BA in English Philology (2009) and a Master's Degree in Social and Moral Philosophy (2015) from University of Helsinki. He is the recipient of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) LAHP studentship (2017-2019), Adam Smith Fellowship at George Mason University (2019-2020), and a Templeton Foundation Grant at King’s College London (2020). He has also been a visiting scholar at University of Arizona’s philosophy department (2020)
