Draft:Nicholas Vrousalis

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Nicholas Vrousalis (born 1980) is an associate professor of Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam[1] and visiting fellow in Ethics at Harvard University.[2][3]

He is known for the idea that the exploitation of labour is a form of domination,[4] for his criticisms of G.A. Cohen's and John Roemer's theories of distribution, and for his arguments connecting the political philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx.

Biography edit

Vrousalis is from Athens, Greece. He studied economics at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2003, and earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2009, where he was supervised by G.A. Cohen.[5] His dissertation was on intergenerational justice and argued that our egalitarian obligations to present people extend with equal strength to people in the indefinite future.[6]

Academic career edit

Since 2009, Vrousalis has taught at the University of Cambridge, KU Leuven, Leiden University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam.[5] He has also held fellowships at Aarhus University,[7] Princeton University,[8] and Harvard University.[9]

In 2019, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research awarded Vrousalis a five-year Vidi grant for research on the relationship between freedom and economic inequality.[10] The project studies questions such as: "Under what conditions are mutually beneficial and consensual transactions unfree? And what kinds of democratic institutions does freedom require? Vrousalis' project studies these questions using the tools of contemporary moral and political philosophy, along three thematic axes: (1) freedom and economic inequality, in general, (2) the political philosophy of markets, and (3) the political philosophy of the workplace."[11]

Publications edit

  • Vrousalis, Nicolas (2009). Equality, Ownership, and Time: On the Content and Structure of Intergenerational Justice (PhD thesis). Oxford University.
  • Vrousalis, Nicolas (2015). The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350028333.
  • Vrousalis, Nicolas (2023). Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192867698.
  • Vrousalis, Nicolas (2020). "Socialism Unrevised: A Response to John Roemer". Philosophy and Public Affairs. 49: 78–109. doi:10.1111/papa.12183.
  • Vrousalis, Nicolas (2022). "Interdependent Independence: Civil Self-Sufficiency and Productive Community in Kant's Theory of Citizenship". Kantian Review. 27 (3): 443–460. doi:10.1017/S1369415422000164.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ dr. N. Vrousalis (1980 – ) at the Erasmus University website.
  2. ^ "Vrousalis elected to Harvard fellowship".
  3. ^ "Visiting Fellows at the Safra Center".
  4. ^ Nicholas Vrousalis interview at Jacobin magazine.
  5. ^ a b Vrousalis, Nicholas (12 February 2023). "CV". Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  6. ^ Vrousalis, Nicholas (2009), Equality, Ownership, and Time: On the Content and Structure of Intergenerational Justice, Oxford Bodleian Library, p. 177{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ "Former Fellows".
  8. ^ "Laurance Rockefeller Visiting Fellows".
  9. ^ "Visiting Fellows".
  10. ^ "Inequality against Freedom: Economic Power, Markets, and the Workplace". Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. 21 November 2001. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  11. ^ "Inequality against Freedom Project". 26 October 2019.

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