Speakers

Professor at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences of the Catholic University of Louvain, where he has held the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics since its creation in 1991. He is best known for being an advocate of the concept of basic income and for offering one of the first systematic treatments of the problems of linguistic justice. Among many other works, he is the author of the books Real Freedom for all and Just Democracy: the Rawls-Machiavellian Programme.

Professor of Constitutional Theory and Political Philosophy at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella and of Constitutional Law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has been a visiting professor or researcher at the Universities of Bergen and Oslo (Norway), Pompeu Fabra (Spain), New York, Columbia, New Shcool and Harvard (USA). He has published several books on constitutional theory and political philosophy, including Las teorías de la justicia después de Rawls.

Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University College of London and Mills Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. In recent years she has written articles on the importance of numbers in practical reasoning, on the political ideal of equality, on responsibility and on distributive justice. She is the author of La justice sociale (2001) and Rawls: justice et critique (2014).

ICREA Professor since October 2009. He has been a visiting professor in the Political Ethics and Economics program at Yale University and Harvard's Philosophy Department, and a member of the Ethics Faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. His work has appeared in journals such as Ethics, Economics and Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy & Public Affairs, and Utilitas, and he is editor of Politics, Philosophy & Economics.

Doctor in Law and Social Sciences, independent researcher of CONICET. Professor of Ethics at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Córdoba (Argentina). Professor at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America. Director of the Maestría en Derecho y Argumentación of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. He is the author, among others, of the book Neutralidad y justicia: en torno al liberalismo político de John Rawls.

Professor of Philosophy of Law at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). From 2005 to 2013 he was rector of the UPF. His most recent research is based on the philosophical foundations of the Constitution. Among many other specialized publications he is the author of Constitución: modelo para armar. In October 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Valparaíso (Chile). Since 2013, he has been the president of AQU Catalunya.

Faviola Rivera holds a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University and is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Her research includes the History of Modern Moral and Political Philosophy (Hume, Kant, Liberalism and Social Contract Theory); and Contemporary Political Philosophy (Liberalism, Citizenship and Global Justice).

Professor of political theory and Fellow at Oriel College, University of Oxford. In 2020, she received the inaugural Early Career Award for the best overall contribution to research and teaching in political thought from the Britain & Ireland Association for Political Thought. She is the author of the book Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration and was the coordinator of the "Historical Rawls" Forum published in the journal Modern Intellectual History.

Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in ethical theory, practical ethics, and the philosophy of death and dying. His books include Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (Broadview, 2011), Understanding Kant’s Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Grief: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton University Press, expected 2021). He is the editor of several scholarly collections, His work has also appeared in a number of scholarly journals.