Philippe van Parijs
| Philippe Van Parijs | |
|---|---|
.jpg) |
|
| Born |
Philippe Van Parijs 23 May 1951 Brussels, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley, Bielefeld University, Oxford University, Université catholique de Louvain, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy, 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic, left-libertarianism |
| Institutions | Nuffield College, Oxford, Université catholique de Louvain en Belgique, Harvard University |
|
Main interests
|
Political philosophy, Political economy |
|
Notable ideas
|
Basic income, linguistic justice |
Philippe Van Parijs (French: [filip vɑ̃ paʁɛjs]; born 23 May 1951) is a left-libertarian Belgian philosopher and political economist, mainly known as a proponent and main defender of the basic income concept and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice.
Philippe Van Parijs studied philosophy, law, political economy, sociology and linguistics at the Université Saint-Louis (Brussels), at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Louvain-La-Neuve, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Leuven, Oxford, Bielefeld and California (Berkeley). He holds doctorates in the social sciences (Louvain, 1977) and in philosophy (Oxford, 1980).
He is professor at the Faculty of economic, social and political sciences of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), where he directs the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics since its creation in 1991. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University's Department of Philosophy from 2004 to 2011, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven since 2006, and a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, since 2011.
M. Van Parijs, who speaks fluently various languages, has also held visiting positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Manchester, Siena, Québec (Montréal), Wisconsin (Madison), Maine (Orono) and Aix-Marseille, the European University Institute (Florence), the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), the Catholic Faculties of Kinshasa (Congo), All Souls College (Oxford), Yale University, Sciences Po (Paris), the Catholic University of Uruguay, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the École Normale Supérieure (Paris).
...
Wikipedia