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Philippe Van Parijs
Philippe Van Parijs studied philosophy, law, political economy, sociology and linguistics at the Facultés universitaires Saint Louis (Brussels) and the Universities of Louvain, 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 Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), where he directs the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics since its creation in 1991. He is also a Visiting Professor at Harvard University's Department of Philosophy since 2004 at at the KuLeuven's Higher Institute for Philosophy since 2006. He also held visiting positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Manchester, Siena, Québec (Montréal), Wisconsin (Madison), Maine (Orono), Uruguay (Montevideo) 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 Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Ecole normale supérieure (Paris). He was awarderd an honorary doctorate by Laval University (Québec). He is one of the founders of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN), which became in 2004 the Basic Income Earth Network, and he chairs its International Board. He organizes the annual Ethical Forum of the University Foundationand chairs the steering committee of the programme on Poverty and Social Justice of the King Baudouin Foundation. He coordinates, jointly with Kris Deschouwer, the Pavia Group, which pleads for the creation of a country-wide electoral district in federal Belgium, and, jointly with Paul De Grauwe (K.U.Leuven), the Re-Bel initiative, whose purpose is to radically rethink Belgium's institutions in the European context. He is a member of Belgium's Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts, of the International Institute of Philosophy, and of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellow of the British Academy. In 2001, he was awarded the Francqui Prize, Belgium's most generous scientific prize. In 2007, a post stamp was devoted to him within the framework of a series ("This is Belgium") honouring nine outstanding Belgian scholars.
He is one of the founders of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN), which became in 2004 the Basic Income Earth Network, and he chairs its International Board. He organizes the annual Ethical Forum of the University Foundation and chairs the steering committee of the programme on Poverty and Social Justice of the King Baudouin Foundation. He coordinates, jointly with Kris Deschouwer, the Pavia Group, which pleads for the creation of a country-wide electoral district in federal Belgium, and, jointly with Paul De Grauwe (K.U.Leuven), the Re-Bel initiative, whose purpose is to radically rethink Belgium's institutions in the European context. He is a member of the editorial boards of Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, Politics Philosophy and Economics, Journal of Ethics, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, European Journal of Political Theory, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Ethical Perspectives, European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Explorations, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Basic Income Studies, Egalitarian Theory and Political Practice, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Public Reason, Revue de philosophie économique, Raisons politiques, Raison publique, Ethiek en Maatschappij, Econômica and Sin permiso.
His books include Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences (1981), Le Modèle économique et ses rivaux (1990), Qu'est-ce qu'une société juste? (1991), Marxism Recycled (1993), Real Freedom for All (1995), Sauver la solidarité (1995), Refonder la solidarité (1996), Solidariteit voor de XXIste eeuw (1997), Ethique économique et sociale (2000, with C. Arnsperger), What's Wrong with a Free Lunch ? (2001), Hacia una concepcion de la justicia global (2002), L'Allocation universelle (2005, with Y. Vanderborght), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (in progress) and Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity (as editor, 2004).
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11/05/2009
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