Participants

Adrián Herranz holds a PhD from Pompeu Fabra University and currently teaches political philosophy at the University of Barcelona. His research interests include republican philosophy, economic democracy and the philosophy of work. He has recently published in international journals such as Res Publica, Social Theory and Practice and European Journal of Political Theory.

Catarina Neves is a Postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University in the Ethics Institute, working in the project Visions for the Future, with Prof. dr. Ingrid Robeyns. She earned a PhD in Philosophy from University of Minho with a thesis on Unconditional Basic Income entitled “Acknowledging the gift: how an unconditional basic income encourages reciprocity”. Her project was funded by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal (reference SFRH/BD/144495/2019). Catarina is also the co-author of a book on basic income experiments - Basic Income Experiments. A Critical Examination of Their Goals, Contexts, and Methods (2022) – published by Palgrave Macmillan. 

Elena Icardi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS) of the University of Minho. Prior to joining CEPS, she was a research fellow at the University of Pavia. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the University of Milan. During her Ph.D. she also spent a visiting period at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. Her research interests include freedom as non-domination, political equality, and distributive justice. She recently contributed to Robeyns's book Having Too Much: Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism (Open Book Publisher) with a chapter entitled “A Neo-Republican Argument for Limitarianism”. 

Iñigo González-Ricoy is an associate professor of political philosophy and an ICREA Academia fellow at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on democracy, work, firms, and intergenerational justice. He is currently working on two books: a monograph on labor-managed firms and a co-edited volume on workplace republicanism. 

Roberto Merrill is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Head of Department of Philosophy, at the School of Arts and Humanities​ at the University of Minho, where he also coordinates the MA in Political Philosophy. He is also a researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS), where he coordinates a funded project on UBI (website here: https://ubiexperiments.weebly.com/). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Research Committee on Political Philosophy of the International Political Science Association. Dr. Merrill research interests within political philosophy include liberal neutrality, perfectionism and value pluralism, as well as contemporary theories of distributive justice. He published in 2019 a book on Rendimento básico incondicional : uma defesa da liberdade . Edições 70. (Prize by the Portuguese Society of Philosophy for best essay in philosophy for 2018-2019) and in 2022 a book on Basic Income Experiments: A Critical Examination of their Goals, Contexts, and Methods, Palgrave Macmillan.  He is currently working on a book manuscript on pre-distribution and property-owning democracy. 

Thiago is a PhD candidate at UMinho and a researcher at CEPS. His main topic of study is currently Unconditional Basic Income and its multidisciplinary perspectives. Thiago holds a master’s degree in Political Science (Nova University Lisbon) and a bachelor’s degree in Law (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro). He published the book The Bolsa Família Case: A Path to Unconditional Basic Income, based on his master’s thesis. Thiago was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He moved to Lisbon, Portugal, in 2019 to pursue his postgraduate studies. In 2022, he started his PhD program at UMinho with the research project entitled “The moral, political and ecological value of the UBI: a critical examination of pilot experiences.” His main research interests are Unconditional Basic Income, Post-productivism, Climate Crisis, and Republicanism.