Pablo Scotto Benito, University of Barcelona, Spain
I studied philosophy in Santiago de Compostela and then got a master’s degree in political philosophy from Universitat the Barcelona. Now I am a PhD candidate in philosophy of law at Universitat de Barcelona. In my thesis I study the origins of right to work claims from the French Revolution (1789) until 1848. Here you can see my papers: https://ub.academia.edu/PabloScottoBenito
Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University, USA
Juliana Bidadanure is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and by courtesy of Political Science, at Stanford University. She completed her PhD in Political Philosophy within the School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of York (UK), and was then a 2014-2015 Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (Italy). Her interests lie at the intersection of Philosophy and Public Policy. She has written on inequalities between age groups and generations, and on the question of what it means to treat young adults as equals, as well as on the philosophy of unconditional basic income. At Stanford, she is developing a research initiative called the Stanford Basic Income Lab.
Sara Bizarro, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho, Portugal
Sara Bizarro works in Political Philosophy and is interested in questions of Social Justice. She is currently working on a book about Basic Income and is part of the Basic Income (RBI - Rendimento Básico Incondicional) movement in Portugal.
Vincent Bourdeau, University of Franche-Comté, France
Vincent Bourdeau is a Lecturer in political and social philosophy at the University of Franche-Comté and a member of the Research Unit Logics of Action (E.A. 2274). He's interested in the republican and socialist tradition, specially in regard with the construction of social sciences (from the French revolution to nowadays). On our topic, two texts in English: Revolutionary France and the social republic that never was and https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-todays-republicans-have-to-say-about-work/
Denise Celentano, University of Catania & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris, France
I'm a PhD student in Political philosophy at the University of Catania, Italy, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris (Centre Maurice Halbwachs) in a joint PhD program. My research focuses on labor justice between - and beyond - distribution and recognition normative approaches. I hold a MA in Philosophy from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'; for my dissertation on the concept of class in American analytical marxism I received the 2016 National Prize of Political Theory 'L. Cedroni'. Last publication: D. Celentano, C. Rio, La justice distributive, in E. Savarese, C. Roux, Science politique, Bruylant, Bruxelles 2017 [forthcoming].
João Cerejeira, University of Minho, Portugal
João Cerejeira is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Economics and Management School at the University of Minho and researcher at NIPE - Economic Policies Research Units. With an undergraduate degree in Economics, he holds a PhD in Economics at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Recent research interests include the exchange rates effects in labour markets, the role of skill mismatches on regional and national competiveness; and a more general interest on policy and program evaluation. He has published several journal articles and chapters and books. His advising experience includes policy oriented reports on Minimum Wage, Education and Employment on the Portuguese labour market, for the Portuguese Ministry of Labour and Solidarity, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Fundação Belmiro de Azevedo and International Labour Organization (ILO), among others. More recently, he co-coordinated a regional module of the National System for Anticipation of Skills Needs. Since 2016 he is member of the Scientific Council of the Centro de Relações Laborais [Labour Relations Center] of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and fellow of the Global Labor Organization.
David Coombs, LSE, UK
David is an MPhil/PhD candidate in the LSE's Philosophy department. His areas of research are the fair distribution of work and the moral responsibility of business persons. David has an MSc in Economics and Philosophy (LSE) and a BA in Economics (Cantab). He has worked in financial services for a number of years, and is currently an advisor to B Lab UK, which promotes business as a force for good.
Jurgen De Wispelaere, ISRF & University of Bath, UK (coordinator)
Jurgen is a former occupational therapist turned political theorist and policy scholar. He is an ISRF Political Economy Research Fellow and Policy Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research (University of Bath). His major research interest is the political analysis of basic income and these days he is mostly working on the political economy of basic income in European welfare states. In addition to basic income, he is interested in republican political theory, disability rights, the ethics of organ donation, and issues around adoption, procreation and parenting. Jurgen is a big fan of extreme metal and believes a basic income would provide much needed support for the underground music scene.
Jorge Félix Cardoso, University of Minho, Portugal
I'm a 2nd year undergrad student of philosophy at U. Minho and a 4th year medical student at the University of Porto. Regarding the future of work, I'm particularly interested in two hypothesis: either redefining work, or assuming work is going to be just for a lucky few and thinking what can be done to the rest without compromising the possibility of a just and equal society. My other interests in philosophy include, among others, rethinking how democracy is shaped by elections and theories of justice applied to healthcare.
Inte Gloerich, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Inte Gloerich is a researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She focusses on the politics and social implications of digital technology, economy and culture, through projects like MoneyLab. She is currently co-editing the second MoneyLab Reader and collaborating with various European galleries on projects on online identity and citizenship.
James Hickson, University of York, UK (coordinator)
Following an undergraduate degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Master's degree at UCL, James Hickson is now studying for a PhD at the University of York under the supervision of Martin O'Neill. James' work considers the social and political significance of work, in particular he is interested in the phenomenon of precarious work, and how this could be analysed and critiqued through the conceptual vocabulary of domination and republican liberty.
Louis-Philippe Hodgson, York University, Canada
Louis-Philippe Hodgson is associate professor of philosophy at Glendon College, York University. He works in legal and political philosophy. He has recently published articles on Kant’s political philosophy, on G. A. Cohen’s ideal of community, and on the problems that reproductive choices pose for certain versions of global egalitarianism.
Stephen Hood, University of Manchester, UK
Stephen Hood is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. His research focusses upon liberal theories of justice and socioeconomic institutions, with a particular emphasis upon those based on competitive relationships, such as markets. Recent publications include 'Is Capitalist Utopia Noncompetitive? Jason Brennan's Why Not Capitalism?', published in Moral Philosophy and Politics.
Malte Jauch, University of Konstanz, Germany
I´ve studied Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz in Germany and Political Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. At the moment I´m working as an assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Apart from philosophy of work, I´m interested in questions of distributive justice and economic theory.
Elias Kühn von Burgsdorff, London School of Economics, UK
Elias Kühn von Burgsdorff is completing his masters in Philosophy and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. The primary focus of his research is the changing nature of work in the post-industrial economy and whether it makes sense to speak of a 'right to work'; if it does, how do we formulate such a right and its corresponding duty? Elias has worked several years as an investigative reporter in Chicago and southern Africa.
Roberto Merrill, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho (coordinator)
I teach moral and political philosophy at the University of Minho, where I do research at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society. I'm also an associate researcher at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po-Paris). My research interests include liberal neutrality and value pluralism, egalitarian theories of justice, applied ethics, and the relationship between art and morality. Recently I published (with António Baptista) a special issue on property-owning democracy. My last co-edited book (with Daniel Weinstock) was on Political Neutrality: a Re-evaluation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; reviews by P.Vandamme for Ethical Perspectives, and by Laurent de Briey for Philosophiques).Before that, I published two volumes (one of them with Vincent Bourdeau) on neo-republicanism and one special issue on libertarianism. I've also published a book (with João Cardoso Rosas) on the ethical evaluation of controversial technologies in citizens’ conferences. My interest on aesthetic moralism led me to edit a special issue on art and morality.
Gabriel Monette, University of Montreal, Canada
Gabriel Monette is a PhD student at Université de Montréal specialised in cooperative governance. His thesis explore the links between the republican idea of freedom, the theory of the firm and domination within the firm (in work relations) and outside (in the market). Before that, he completed a master in public administration.
Leticia Morales, University of Mar del Plata, Argentina
Leticia Morales is PhD in Law and Master in Political Philosophy. Her research focuses on the role of the judiciary in relation to social and economic rights. A first project examines their constitutional protection arguing for a democratic approach to the justification of social and economic rights that combines insights from the traditions of legal and political constitutionalism. A second project examines the epistemic dimension of judicial decision-making in relation to public health controversies in Canada, England and Latin America.
Martin O'Neill, University of York, UK
Martin O’Neill is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of York. He works on a number of topics in moral and political philosophy. Martin is especially interested in equality, inequality and social justice; freedom and responsibility; and a number of issues at the intersection of political philosophy and public policy (including taxation, monetary policy, financial regulation, corporate governance, and labour unions).
Shin Osawa, University of Kitakyushu, Japan
Shin Osawa is an associate professor at The University of Kitakyushu (Fukuoka, Japan). He studied at University College London (PhD in Political Science, University of London). His research focuses on justice for work and methodologies of political theory.
Lucas Petroni, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Lucas Petroni has studied philosophy and political science at the University of São Paulo, where he currently develops his Ph. D. research in Political Theory. He is an associate researcher of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho and a Visiting Assistant in Research in the Department of Philosophy at Yale. His Ph. D. thesis, The Morality of Equality: Political Authority, Egalitarianism and the Second-Person Standpoint, is an attempt to bring together second-personal morality and claims for justice in a democratic society.
João Ribeiro Mendes, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho
João Ribeiro Mendes is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of University of Minho (Braga, Portugal), teaching and researching in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology-Technoethics. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He is the Director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, deputy-director of the Department of Philosophy and director of the Master in Political Philosophy, all at the Institute of Arts and Humanities of the University of Minho (Braga). He is also President of the Philosophical Society of the Galicia-North of Portugal Eurorregion.
Daniele Santoro, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho
Daniele Santoro is FCT Researcher at the University of Minho, and member of the Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society (CEPS). His main interests are in legal and political philosophy. He is currently working on a project on dissent and democratic authority.
Frauke Schmode, Bavarian School of Public Policy & Technical University Munich, Germany
Frauke Schmode, M.A., is a PhD-student and research assistant at the Professorship for Political Philosophy and Theory at the Bavarian School of Public Policy, Munich. Before that, she studied Philosophy, Political Science, Book Science and Slavic Studies in Mainz, Moscow und Tokyo. In her PhD project “Distributive Justice with Regard to Bad Work" (working title) she attends to the question of how society should deal with socially necessary bad work from a perspective of justice.
Sílvia Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal
Sílvia Sousa is an assistant professor at the Economics Department, University of Minho and a researcher at NIPE, Economic Policies Research Unit. She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute, Florence. Her research interests are in the intersection of Labour and Health Economics. She has participated in research projects financed by FCT and POAT/QREN and developed consulting work for national organizations. She was an advisor of the Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity, a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the EU-FP/ project Multilinks and, until recently, of the Portuguese Association of Health Economics (APES) executive board. Currently, she is a member of the UMinhoExec executive team.
Pedro A. Teixeira, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho & Free University of Berlin
Pedro A. Teixeira is a PhD candidate at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, and he is an associated researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (Universidade do Minho). He works on the methodological foundations of liberal theories of justice and of communitarian political theories. He is also interested in discussions on socialism and on new perspectives in political economy.
Mats Volberg, University of Tartu, Estonia
Mats Volberg is a research fellow of practical philosophy in the department of philosophy at University of Tartu. He defended his PhD thesis titled "The Foundation and Nature of Contemporary Liberalism" in University of York in 2015. Although questions of social justice have been interesting for Mats as a private citizen for a long time, he has only recently taken this topic up as a philosopher.
I studied philosophy in Santiago de Compostela and then got a master’s degree in political philosophy from Universitat the Barcelona. Now I am a PhD candidate in philosophy of law at Universitat de Barcelona. In my thesis I study the origins of right to work claims from the French Revolution (1789) until 1848. Here you can see my papers: https://ub.academia.edu/PabloScottoBenito
Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University, USA
Juliana Bidadanure is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and by courtesy of Political Science, at Stanford University. She completed her PhD in Political Philosophy within the School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of York (UK), and was then a 2014-2015 Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (Italy). Her interests lie at the intersection of Philosophy and Public Policy. She has written on inequalities between age groups and generations, and on the question of what it means to treat young adults as equals, as well as on the philosophy of unconditional basic income. At Stanford, she is developing a research initiative called the Stanford Basic Income Lab.
Sara Bizarro, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho, Portugal
Sara Bizarro works in Political Philosophy and is interested in questions of Social Justice. She is currently working on a book about Basic Income and is part of the Basic Income (RBI - Rendimento Básico Incondicional) movement in Portugal.
Vincent Bourdeau, University of Franche-Comté, France
Vincent Bourdeau is a Lecturer in political and social philosophy at the University of Franche-Comté and a member of the Research Unit Logics of Action (E.A. 2274). He's interested in the republican and socialist tradition, specially in regard with the construction of social sciences (from the French revolution to nowadays). On our topic, two texts in English: Revolutionary France and the social republic that never was and https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-todays-republicans-have-to-say-about-work/
Denise Celentano, University of Catania & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris, France
I'm a PhD student in Political philosophy at the University of Catania, Italy, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris (Centre Maurice Halbwachs) in a joint PhD program. My research focuses on labor justice between - and beyond - distribution and recognition normative approaches. I hold a MA in Philosophy from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'; for my dissertation on the concept of class in American analytical marxism I received the 2016 National Prize of Political Theory 'L. Cedroni'. Last publication: D. Celentano, C. Rio, La justice distributive, in E. Savarese, C. Roux, Science politique, Bruylant, Bruxelles 2017 [forthcoming].
João Cerejeira, University of Minho, Portugal
João Cerejeira is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Economics and Management School at the University of Minho and researcher at NIPE - Economic Policies Research Units. With an undergraduate degree in Economics, he holds a PhD in Economics at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Recent research interests include the exchange rates effects in labour markets, the role of skill mismatches on regional and national competiveness; and a more general interest on policy and program evaluation. He has published several journal articles and chapters and books. His advising experience includes policy oriented reports on Minimum Wage, Education and Employment on the Portuguese labour market, for the Portuguese Ministry of Labour and Solidarity, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Fundação Belmiro de Azevedo and International Labour Organization (ILO), among others. More recently, he co-coordinated a regional module of the National System for Anticipation of Skills Needs. Since 2016 he is member of the Scientific Council of the Centro de Relações Laborais [Labour Relations Center] of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and fellow of the Global Labor Organization.
David Coombs, LSE, UK
David is an MPhil/PhD candidate in the LSE's Philosophy department. His areas of research are the fair distribution of work and the moral responsibility of business persons. David has an MSc in Economics and Philosophy (LSE) and a BA in Economics (Cantab). He has worked in financial services for a number of years, and is currently an advisor to B Lab UK, which promotes business as a force for good.
Jurgen De Wispelaere, ISRF & University of Bath, UK (coordinator)
Jurgen is a former occupational therapist turned political theorist and policy scholar. He is an ISRF Political Economy Research Fellow and Policy Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research (University of Bath). His major research interest is the political analysis of basic income and these days he is mostly working on the political economy of basic income in European welfare states. In addition to basic income, he is interested in republican political theory, disability rights, the ethics of organ donation, and issues around adoption, procreation and parenting. Jurgen is a big fan of extreme metal and believes a basic income would provide much needed support for the underground music scene.
Jorge Félix Cardoso, University of Minho, Portugal
I'm a 2nd year undergrad student of philosophy at U. Minho and a 4th year medical student at the University of Porto. Regarding the future of work, I'm particularly interested in two hypothesis: either redefining work, or assuming work is going to be just for a lucky few and thinking what can be done to the rest without compromising the possibility of a just and equal society. My other interests in philosophy include, among others, rethinking how democracy is shaped by elections and theories of justice applied to healthcare.
Inte Gloerich, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Inte Gloerich is a researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She focusses on the politics and social implications of digital technology, economy and culture, through projects like MoneyLab. She is currently co-editing the second MoneyLab Reader and collaborating with various European galleries on projects on online identity and citizenship.
James Hickson, University of York, UK (coordinator)
Following an undergraduate degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Master's degree at UCL, James Hickson is now studying for a PhD at the University of York under the supervision of Martin O'Neill. James' work considers the social and political significance of work, in particular he is interested in the phenomenon of precarious work, and how this could be analysed and critiqued through the conceptual vocabulary of domination and republican liberty.
Louis-Philippe Hodgson, York University, Canada
Louis-Philippe Hodgson is associate professor of philosophy at Glendon College, York University. He works in legal and political philosophy. He has recently published articles on Kant’s political philosophy, on G. A. Cohen’s ideal of community, and on the problems that reproductive choices pose for certain versions of global egalitarianism.
Stephen Hood, University of Manchester, UK
Stephen Hood is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. His research focusses upon liberal theories of justice and socioeconomic institutions, with a particular emphasis upon those based on competitive relationships, such as markets. Recent publications include 'Is Capitalist Utopia Noncompetitive? Jason Brennan's Why Not Capitalism?', published in Moral Philosophy and Politics.
Malte Jauch, University of Konstanz, Germany
I´ve studied Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz in Germany and Political Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. At the moment I´m working as an assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Apart from philosophy of work, I´m interested in questions of distributive justice and economic theory.
Elias Kühn von Burgsdorff, London School of Economics, UK
Elias Kühn von Burgsdorff is completing his masters in Philosophy and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. The primary focus of his research is the changing nature of work in the post-industrial economy and whether it makes sense to speak of a 'right to work'; if it does, how do we formulate such a right and its corresponding duty? Elias has worked several years as an investigative reporter in Chicago and southern Africa.
Roberto Merrill, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho (coordinator)
I teach moral and political philosophy at the University of Minho, where I do research at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society. I'm also an associate researcher at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po-Paris). My research interests include liberal neutrality and value pluralism, egalitarian theories of justice, applied ethics, and the relationship between art and morality. Recently I published (with António Baptista) a special issue on property-owning democracy. My last co-edited book (with Daniel Weinstock) was on Political Neutrality: a Re-evaluation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; reviews by P.Vandamme for Ethical Perspectives, and by Laurent de Briey for Philosophiques).Before that, I published two volumes (one of them with Vincent Bourdeau) on neo-republicanism and one special issue on libertarianism. I've also published a book (with João Cardoso Rosas) on the ethical evaluation of controversial technologies in citizens’ conferences. My interest on aesthetic moralism led me to edit a special issue on art and morality.
Gabriel Monette, University of Montreal, Canada
Gabriel Monette is a PhD student at Université de Montréal specialised in cooperative governance. His thesis explore the links between the republican idea of freedom, the theory of the firm and domination within the firm (in work relations) and outside (in the market). Before that, he completed a master in public administration.
Leticia Morales, University of Mar del Plata, Argentina
Leticia Morales is PhD in Law and Master in Political Philosophy. Her research focuses on the role of the judiciary in relation to social and economic rights. A first project examines their constitutional protection arguing for a democratic approach to the justification of social and economic rights that combines insights from the traditions of legal and political constitutionalism. A second project examines the epistemic dimension of judicial decision-making in relation to public health controversies in Canada, England and Latin America.
Martin O'Neill, University of York, UK
Martin O’Neill is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of York. He works on a number of topics in moral and political philosophy. Martin is especially interested in equality, inequality and social justice; freedom and responsibility; and a number of issues at the intersection of political philosophy and public policy (including taxation, monetary policy, financial regulation, corporate governance, and labour unions).
Shin Osawa, University of Kitakyushu, Japan
Shin Osawa is an associate professor at The University of Kitakyushu (Fukuoka, Japan). He studied at University College London (PhD in Political Science, University of London). His research focuses on justice for work and methodologies of political theory.
Lucas Petroni, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Lucas Petroni has studied philosophy and political science at the University of São Paulo, where he currently develops his Ph. D. research in Political Theory. He is an associate researcher of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho and a Visiting Assistant in Research in the Department of Philosophy at Yale. His Ph. D. thesis, The Morality of Equality: Political Authority, Egalitarianism and the Second-Person Standpoint, is an attempt to bring together second-personal morality and claims for justice in a democratic society.
João Ribeiro Mendes, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho
João Ribeiro Mendes is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of University of Minho (Braga, Portugal), teaching and researching in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology-Technoethics. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He is the Director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, deputy-director of the Department of Philosophy and director of the Master in Political Philosophy, all at the Institute of Arts and Humanities of the University of Minho (Braga). He is also President of the Philosophical Society of the Galicia-North of Portugal Eurorregion.
Daniele Santoro, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho
Daniele Santoro is FCT Researcher at the University of Minho, and member of the Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society (CEPS). His main interests are in legal and political philosophy. He is currently working on a project on dissent and democratic authority.
Frauke Schmode, Bavarian School of Public Policy & Technical University Munich, Germany
Frauke Schmode, M.A., is a PhD-student and research assistant at the Professorship for Political Philosophy and Theory at the Bavarian School of Public Policy, Munich. Before that, she studied Philosophy, Political Science, Book Science and Slavic Studies in Mainz, Moscow und Tokyo. In her PhD project “Distributive Justice with Regard to Bad Work" (working title) she attends to the question of how society should deal with socially necessary bad work from a perspective of justice.
Sílvia Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal
Sílvia Sousa is an assistant professor at the Economics Department, University of Minho and a researcher at NIPE, Economic Policies Research Unit. She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute, Florence. Her research interests are in the intersection of Labour and Health Economics. She has participated in research projects financed by FCT and POAT/QREN and developed consulting work for national organizations. She was an advisor of the Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity, a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the EU-FP/ project Multilinks and, until recently, of the Portuguese Association of Health Economics (APES) executive board. Currently, she is a member of the UMinhoExec executive team.
Pedro A. Teixeira, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho & Free University of Berlin
Pedro A. Teixeira is a PhD candidate at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, and he is an associated researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (Universidade do Minho). He works on the methodological foundations of liberal theories of justice and of communitarian political theories. He is also interested in discussions on socialism and on new perspectives in political economy.
Mats Volberg, University of Tartu, Estonia
Mats Volberg is a research fellow of practical philosophy in the department of philosophy at University of Tartu. He defended his PhD thesis titled "The Foundation and Nature of Contemporary Liberalism" in University of York in 2015. Although questions of social justice have been interesting for Mats as a private citizen for a long time, he has only recently taken this topic up as a philosopher.