Affiliates

Uğur Aytaç is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. He investigates how varying conceptualizations of power and domination should shape our normative judgments about the legitimacy of socio-political arrangements, including digital platforms, economic institutions, and states. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, The Journal of Politics, Political Studies, Constellations, and the Journal of Social Philosophy.

Sandrine Blanc is an Associate Professor of Business Ethics at INSEEC Grande Ecole. She is an associate member of the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics at Louvain University (UCL), and a board member of EBEN France. Her main research areas are business ethics and political philosophy, with a focus on normative issues related to business and contemporary capitalism. She is particularly interested in the implications of social justice for business, as well as in the area of corporate governance. Her publications include articles in Economics and Philosophy, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Review of Economic Philosophy, Oeconomia and Revue Française de Gestion. She is the co-editor of the Political Theory and Business Ethics section of the Journal of Business Ethics.

Rutger Claassen is Professor of Political Philosophy and Economic Ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Utrecht University. His research is at the intersection of politics, economics and ethics, focusing on theoretical and normative questions about democracy, freedom, markets, and justice. He currently is the principal investigator of a research project on The Business Corporation as a Political Actor, funded by the European Research Council (ERC-Consolidator Grant), which investigates the societal role and legitimacy of business corporations (2020-2025). In his monograph Capabilities in a Just Society. A Theory of Navigational Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2018) he argues for a capability approach centered on a notion of autonomous agency. He has published in journals such as Economics & Philosophy, Inquiry, Law & Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy and Politics, Philosophy & Economics.

Chiara Cordelli is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and affiliated faculty in Philosophy. She is also Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at Sciences Po. Beyond her published articles, she is the author of The Privatized State (Princeton University Press, 2020), which was awarded the 2021 ECPR Political Theory Prize for best first book in political theory, and of Privatocrazia (Mondadori 2022), as well as the editor of NOMOS and the co-editor of Philanthropy in Democratic Societies (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Cordelli has held visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, Harvard and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Her current book project develops an alienation-centered critique of capitalism and a normative case for financial democracy.

Jamie Draper is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. His research is in political philosophy, mostly on applied issues in environmental, social, and global justice, including climate change, migration, and urban politics. His book, Climate Displacement, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. He is currently working on a number of topics, including the spatial dimensions of inequality, the ethics of green industrial policy, and regulation of labour migration. Before joining Utrecht, Draper was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He received his PhD from the University of Reading in 2020. Draper is also an Associate Editor at Res Publica.

Lisa Herzog works at the intersection of political philosophy and economic thought. She has held her position at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen since 2019. Between 2021 and 2025, she was the Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and since January 2023, she is Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. Herzog has published on the philosophical dimensions of markets (both historical and systemical), liberalism and social justice, ethics in organizations and the future of work. The current focus of her work are workplace democracy, professional ethics, and the role of knowledge in democracies. She is a co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Review of Social Economy. Her latest monograph is entitled The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals.

Christian Neuhäuser is Professor of Political Philosophy at TU Dortmund University. His research focuses on theories of dignity, theories of responsibility, philosophy of economics and philosophy of international relations. He is a member of the Green Academy and editor of the Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics. He studied Philosophy, Sinology and Sociology in Göttingen, Berlin and Hong Kong and received his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam with a thesis on “Corporations as Moral Actors.”

Martin O’Neill is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of York. He is a member of the Trustee Board of the Democracy Collaborative, a think tank based in Washington DC, and is a member of the executive committee of the British Philosophical Association. He has previously been Research Fellow in Philosophy and Politics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester. Martin was educated at Balliol College, Oxford (BA, BPhil) and Harvard University (PhD). O’Neill is the co-author (with Joe Guinan) of The Case for Community Wealth Building (Polity Press, 2019) and the co-editor (with Shepley Orr) of Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives (OUP, 2018) and (with Thad Williamson) of Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). Martin’s writing has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, The Big Issue, Tribune, and The Boston Review, and he has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes such as The Moral Maze and In Our Time. His work on radical approaches to political economy has been discussed in publications including n+1, The Guardian, and The Economist.

Philippe Van Parijs is Professor Emeritus at the University of Louvain, where he was the founding director of the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics from 1991 to 2016. He was also a regular visiting professor at Harvard and Oxford between 2004 and 2015 and has been, since 2006, a special guest professor at the University of Leuven. He currently chairs the advisory board of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and the Brussels Council for Multilingualism. His books include Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences (Rowman & Littlefield, 1981), Qu’est-ce qu’une société juste?(Seuil, 1991), Marxism Recycled (Cambridge University Press, 1993) Real Freedom for All (Oxford University Press, 1995), Just Democracy (ECPR, 2011), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Oxford University Press, 2011), Basic Income. A radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy (Harvard University Press, 2017, with Y. Vanderborght) and Belgium. Une utopie pour notre temps (Académie royale, 2018).

Juri Viehoff is a philosopher working at the Ethics Institute in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. He joined Utrecht in September 2023. Before that, he was a permanent lecturer (assistant professor) in political theory at the University of Manchester’s MANCEPT. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, where he worked on solidarity. And before that, he was a postdoc at University of Zurich’s Centre for Ethics. Viehoff’s core research field is moral and political philosophy, specifically economic ethics/PPE, with adjacent interests in social philosophy and philosophy of technology.

Stuart White is Nicholas Drake Fellow in Politics at Jesus College, and Associate Professor in the Department of Politics & International Relations, Oxford University. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Politics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997-1999). His research focuses on exploring proposals for egalitarian and anti-authoritarian alternatives to capitalism philosophically, historically, and at the policy level. He is the author of The Civic Minimum: On the Rights and Obligations of Economic Citizenship (2003); the co-author, with Rajiv Prabhakar and Karen Rowlingson, of How to Defend Inheritance Tax (2008); and the co-editor, with Bruno Leipold and Karma Nabulsi, of Radical Republicanism: Retrieving the Tradition’s Popular Heritage (2020). His most recent book is The Wealth of Freedom: Radical Republican Political Economy (2025).