Founding Members:
Paul Bou-Habib (Political Theory) Marie Curie Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona and Senior Lectuturer, Department of Government, University of Essex Research interests: Population ageing, the family, liberalism Serena Olsaretti (Ethics and Political Philosophy) Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona; Principal Investigator of the ERC project, "Family Justice". Research interests: Family justice Andrew Williams (Ethics and Political Philosophy) Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona Research interests:Family justice, demographic change Members: Anne Alstott (Law and Political Philosophy) Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation Yale Law School Research interests: Tax law, family law, taxation of the family, equality of opportunity, inheritance taxation, poverty, and inequality David Archard (Ethics and Political Philosophy) School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy Queen's University Belfast Research interests: Children, family, and the state Gustaf Arhennius (Ethics and Political Philosophy) Institute for Future Studies Stockholm University Research interests: Future generations, population ethics, the intersection between moral and political philosophy and the medical and social sciences Alex Bagattini (Ethics and Political Philosophy) Institut für Philosophie Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Research interests: Children rights, concept of child well-being, ethics of family-relations Simon Beard (Moral Philosophy) Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk University of Cambridge Research interests: population ethics, fairness and distributive justice, temporal discounting and the philosophy of public policy Monika Betzler (Ethics) Lehrstuhl V für Praktische Philosophie und Ethik Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Research interests: The ethics of personal relations and the family Andrew Botterell (Philosophy of Law) Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy Western University Research interests: philosophy of law, metaphysics, and the ethics of procreation and parenting. Elizabeth Brake (Ethics and Political Philosophy) Associate Professor of Philosophy Arizona State University Research interests: the moral and political status of marriage, procreative and parental responsibilities, and the moral significance of genetic ties. Nicolás Brando (Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy) Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Global Governance Studies KU Leuven Research interests: Children´s rights, philosophy of education, global justice Harry Brighouse (Philosophy and Educational Policy Studies) Spencer Foundation University of Wisconsin-Madison Research interests: Parents' rights, intergenerational transmission of disadvantage, justifying the family, children's rights, religious schooling, private schooling, the costs of childrearing, educational justice, school choice, social inequality and educational disadvantage, policy interventions to improve achievement of low income Matthew Clayton (Political Theory) Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs University of Warwick Research interests: Distributive justice, the foundations of liberal political thought, and certain kinds of applied philosophy, such as the philosophy of education Ben Colburn (Philosophy and Ethics) School of Humanities University of Glasgow Research interests: The nature of responsibility and its role in distributive justice, the moral foundations of the free market, the conditions of independence and authenticity, the philosophy of mathematics, and the political theory of education Sarah Conly (Ethics) Associate Professor of Philosophy Bowdoin College Research interests: population growth and the grounds and limits of procreative rights. Andrée-Anne Cormier (Philosophy) Glendon College, University of York Research interests: Family justice, children’s rights, parental rights and obligations, the ethics of education policies. Elizabeth Cripps (Moral and Political Philosophy) Senior Lecturer in Political Theory & Associate Director of the Just World Institute, University of Edinburgh Research interests: Population & global/climate justice; parental duties in the context of global climate change Daniela Cutas (Moral Philosophy) Associate Professor Umeå University/University of Gothenburg Research interests: Reproductive ethics, family ethics, ethics of close personal relationships; moral responsibility for children. Pablo de Lora (Legal Philosophy) Professor of Law Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Research interests: human reproduction in the context of artificial reproduction techniques; organ transplantation, philosophical controversies around the concept of death; justice in the distribution of health care resources; and human rights. Jurgen De Wispelaere (Political Philosophy) ISRF Political Economy Research Fellow Independent Social Research Foundation; and Policy Fellow Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath Research interests: Philosophical aspects of social policy and institutional design, with specific application to unconditional basic income, disability policy, adoption policy, and health; the implications of republican political theory for the debate around social determinants of health and health inequity Tom Douglas (Applied Ethics) Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics University of Oxford Research interests: ethics of reproductive technologies, including genetic selection, gene editing and stem cell-assisted reproduction, and justifications of parental partiality and their implications for reproductive decision-making. Luara L. Ferracioli (Political Theory) Department of Political Science University of Amsterdam Research interests: the ethics of migration, philosophy of childhood, and global justice Elizabeth Finneron-Burns (Political Theory) Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Western Ontario Research interests: human extinction, contractualism, permissibility of procreation, intergenerational resource distribution Nancy Folbre (Economics) The Center for Research on Families (CRF) University of Massachusetts Amherst Research interests: The interface between feminist theory and political economy, with a particular interest in caring labor and other forms of non-market work Anca Gheaus (Moral and Political Philosophy) Department of Law Universitat Pompeu Fabra Research interests: The importance of caring relationships for theories of distributive justice, gender justice, child rearing Janet Gornick (Political Economy and Sociology) The Graduate Center City University of New York Research interests: Work-family reconciliation policy, gender equality in paid and unpaid work, family poverty and economic hardship, low-wage work, income inequality, cross-national studies Axel Gosseries (Political Philosophy, Ethics, Public Policy) Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale Université catholique de Louvain Research interests: Justice between age groups, justice between birth cohorts, egalitarianism, age discrimination, indirect reciprocity |
Gunter Graf (Ethics and Social Philosophy) International Research Centre for Social and Ethical Questions Salzburg Research interests: Child poverty, children's rights, child well-being, justice and children Hilary Greaves (Ethical Theory) Professor of Philosophy University of Oxford Research interests: Theory and application of population axiology Ursula Henz (Sociology) Department of Sociology London School of Economics Research interests: The interrelationship between the spheres of the family and the labour market, gender differences, work-life balance Steven Lecce (Political Theory) Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies Associate Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics University of Manitoba Research interests: liberalism and upbringing, parental partiality and educational justice, children's voting rights, and the morality and politics of procreation. Danielle Levitan (Moral and Political Philosophy) PhD Student, Faculty of Law The Hebrew University Research interests: liberalism, children's rights, parental autonomy, state interference in family life. S. Matthew Liao (Philosophy and Bioethics) Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Centre for Bioethics New York University Research interests: philosophy and bioethics, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to human rights and children's rights. Mianna Lotz (Applied Ethics, Bioethics, and Social Philosophy) Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Research interests: Procreative ethics, vulnerability, the ethics and politics of the family, parents' rights, liberties and obligations, children's rights and welfare Colin Macleod (Law and Philosophy) University of Victoria Research interests: Contemporary political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, children's rights Erik Magnusson (Political Philosophy) University of Manitoba Research interests: procreative ethics, bioethics, family justice, and intergenerational justice. Carolyn McLeod (Applied Ethics and Philosophy) Professor of Philosophy/Women's Studies and Feminist Research Western University Research interests: ethics and politics of assisted reproduction, adoption, and parental licensing. Tim Meijers (Philosophy) Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale Université catholique de Louvain Research interests: Population ethics, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy and public affairs, theories of justice, transitional justice. Lukas Meyer (Philosophy) Institut für Philosophie Universität Graz Research interests: Both foundational and applied questions of intergenerational and global justice: What is the normative status of people now deceased and people who may exist in the future? What duties of justice do we have towards people with whom we cannot co-operate, and can people who are indirect victims of past injustices legitimately claim compensation? Tim Mulgan (Moral Philosophy) Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy University of St. Andrews Research interests: obligations to future people, especially whether we can justify ourselves to people living in different possible futures, including broken worlds damaged by climate change or other disaster. Amy Mullin (Philosophy) Department of Philosophy University of Toronto Research interests: Feminist theory, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, continental philosophy Christine Overall (Philosophy) University Research Chair Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Research interests: Feminist philosophy, especially feminist metaphysics and ethics; applied ethics, especially procreative ethics; and philosophy of religion, especially philosophical atheism Norvin Richards (Ethics and Philosophy of Law) Professor Emeritus Department of Philosophy University of Alabama Research interests: The ethics of parenthood Melinda Roberts (Applied Ethics) Professor of Philosophy The College of New Jersey Research interests: population ethics; the obligations in respect of both future people and people who will never exist at all; the procreative asymmetry; the neutrality intuition; the nonidentity problem; the repugnant conclusion; and wrongful life. Ingrid Robeyns (Philosophy and Economics) Faculty of Philosophy Erasmus University Untrecht University Research interests: Theories of justice, economic ethics, and a cluster of normative questions related to demography, gender, the family, economic institutions and sustainability Chiara Saraceno (Philosophy and Sociology) Professor Emerita Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) Research interests: Patterns of family arrangements, gender inequalities, integenerational relations, social citizenship and social policies, poverty and social exlcusion Gottfried Schweiger (Ethics) Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research Paris Lodron Unicersity Salzburg Research interests: Child poverty, children's well-being and well-becoming Liam Shields (Political Theory) School of Social Sciences University of Manchester Research interests: Distributive justice, sufficientarianism, the application of principles of distributive justice to practical debates, such as those about the family and child custody Adam Swift (Political Theory and Sociology) Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs University of Warwick Research interests: Justice and the family, Education, and the relation between justice, legitimacy and democracy Isabella Trifan (Political Philosophy) Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow The Social Justice Centre, Philosophy Department Concordia University, Montréal Research Interests: family justice, the ethics of procreation and childrearing, immigration, population ageing. Peter Vallentyne (Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy) Department of Philosphy University of Missouri-Columbia Research interests: The role of liberty, security, equality, and prosperity in the theory of justice; libertarianism (left and right), egalitarianism, consequentialism, responsibility, compensation rights, enforcement rights. Other Interests: desert and justice, moral dilemmas, the moral status of animals and children, infinite utility, properties, laws of nature. Pieter Vanhuysse (Political Sociology, Political Economy) Professor of Comparative Welfare State Research Department of Political Science and Public Management University of Southern Denmark Research interests: Pension politics and policies; human capital investment policies and politics, intergenerational justice; intergenerational policy conflict; demography and politics Rivka Weinberg (Ethics, Bioethics, Metaphysics) Professor of Philosophy Scripps College Research interests: procreative ethics and metaphysics; theories of moral obligation; ethics and metaphysics of risk; metaphysics of birth, death, and meaning. Daniel Weinstock (Philosophy) Faculty of Law McGill University Research interests: Social and political philosophy; ethics of public policy; ethics of nationalism; foundations of international ethics politics of language and identity; democracy, citizenship, and pluralism; justice in multinational states; accommodation of cultural and moral diversity in democratic societies Danielle Zwarthoed (Political Philosophy) Lecturer, Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics Université catholique de Louvain Research interests: theories of distributive justice, with a particular focus on intergenerational justice and the political philosophy of education; ethical issues related to migration as a response to ageing and family reunification law. |