Philippe Van Parijs

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Philippe Van Parijs
21st-century philosophy
School or traditionAnalytical Marxism
Left-libertarianism[1]
Main interestsPolitical philosophy, political economy, distributive justice
Notable ideasUniversal basic income, linguistic justice, language tax, real freedom

Philippe Van Parijs (French:

main defender of the concept of an unconditional basic income[2] and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice.[3]

In 2020, he was listed by Prospect as the eighth-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era, with the magazine writing, "Today’s young UBI enthusiasts draw on the books and tap the networks of this Belgian polymath, who championed it before it was fashionable. For decades, he has warned that our proclaimed freedoms to start businesses or raise children count for nothing without the real freedom that comes with a basic income".[4]

Early life and education

Born 23 May 1951, Philippe Van Parijs completed high school at

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Leuven, in Oxford, Bielefeld and California (Berkeley). He holds doctorates in the social sciences (Louvain, 1977) and in philosophy (Oxford, 1980).[5]

Career

He is professor at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), where he directs the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
since 2006, and a senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, since 2011.

Van Parijs has held visiting positions at the Universities of

École Normale Supérieure
(Paris).

He is one of the founders of the

Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts, of the International Institute of Philosophy, and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and fellow of the British Academy. In 2001, he was awarded the Francqui Prize, Belgium's most generous scientific prize.[citation needed
]

Personal views

Basic income

In Real Freedom for All: What (if anything) can justify capitalism?

income redistribution.[10]

Linguistic justice

Another part of Van Parijs' work is about linguistic justice. In order to address the injustice arising from the privilege enjoyed by English as a global lingua franca,[11] he discusses a wide range of measures such as a language tax[12] which would be paid by English-speaking countries, a ban on the dubbing of films, and the enforcement of a linguistic territoriality principle that would protect weaker languages.[13]

Political proposals

  • National basic income
  • EU-wide dividend paid by VAT

Bibliography

Philippe Van Parijs in 2018

Van Parijs' 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 concepción de la justicia global (2002)
  • Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity[14] (as editor, 2004)
  • L'Allocation universelle (2005, with Y. Vanderborght)
  • Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (2011)
  • Just Democracy. The Rawls-Machiaveli Programme (2011)
  • Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy (2017)

Festschrift in honour of Van Parijs:

  • Arguing About Justice: Essays for Philippe Van Parijs (Axel Gosseries & Yannick Vanderborght eds., Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2012) was published on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Honours

  • Ailsa McKay Lecture, 2017[15]
  • Francqui Prize, 2001
  • Permanent member, Institut international de philosophie, 1999.

References

  1. ^ Vallentyne, Peter (2014). "Libertarianism", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. Accessed 20 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Van Parijs: An unconditional basic income in Europe will help end the crisis". 11 April 2014.
  3. ^ Philippe Van Parijs, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  4. ^ "The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age" (PDF). Prospect. 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Philippe Van Parijs" Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, at uclouvain.be (in English)
  6. ^ "About BIEN | BIEN".
  7. ^ "Groupe Pavia -Groep - Federale kieskring. Circonscription fédérale". www.paviagroup.be.
  8. ^ "Rethinking Belgium's institutions". Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  9. ^ Philippe Van Parijs, Real Freedom for All, What (if anything) can justify capitalism: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995
  10. ISSN 1094-2939
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  11. ^ "A Lingua Franca as Condition for Global Justice? Philippe Van Parijs on Linguistic Justice". ResearchGate. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  12. ^ Philippe Van Parijs, Europe's three language problems Archived 28 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Multilingualism in Law and Politics
  13. ^ Philippe Van Parijs, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  14. ^ "UCL - Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity". 20 June 2013. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013.
  15. ^ "WiSE Research Centre - 2nd Ailsa McKay Annual Lecture – Registration Details". caledonianblogs.net. Retrieved 20 March 2024.

External links

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