Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE)

Coming back to the introduction of our staff members!

Giulia Napolitano is an assistant professor at EIPE specializing in applied epistemology.

Do you want to know more about her research? Check out her new paper on the political role of conspiracy theories

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our colleague @lgarciaportela.bsky.social participated in this Special Issue on the legitimacy of international insitutions.

Yesterday, we had our first EIPE Junior Research Seminar of the academic year 25/26.

Paula Nieto presented the first paper of her phd (supervised by Prof. Contanze Binder and dr. Laura Garcia-Portela), provisionally entitled 'A concept of law for climate change adjudication'

Frederik Van De Putte, associate professor at EIPE, is taking care of the academic track at Democracy Summit.

Democracy Summit concerns the most recent research, developments and applications of digital tools for democratic decision-making and participation.

ddth25.polisnl.org/en

EIPE Research Seminars EIPE Research Seminars Format: Papers are emailed at least 1 week in advance. Presenters give a 20 minute presentation followed by 15 minutes for the...

We are pleased to share the schedule for the EIPE Research Seminars at Erasmus School of Philosophy for the 2025-2026 academic year.

www.eur.nl/en/esphil/ei...

To be kept in the loop, please send an e-mail to our student assistant: verhoeven@esphil.eur.nl

Conrad Heilmann appointed as Professor of Philosophy of Economics at Erasmus School of Philosophy Conrad Heilmann has been appointed Professor of Philosophy of Economics at the Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil), Erasmus University Rotterdam.

We are proud to share that Conrad Heilmann has been appointed Professor of Philosophy of Economics at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Congratulations, Conrad!

www.eur.nl/en/esphil/ne...

🎓 Today we celebrate a major milestone: the 2024/25 cohort of our Research Master in Philosophy and Economics students at Erasmus University Rotterdam has officially graduated!
We are proud of all they have achieved and excited to see where their talents will take them next 🚀✨

Climate scientists as trustees in public reason: the legitimacy of political institutions amid non-epistemic values Addressing global challenges like climate change requires both national action and international collaboration. However, it remains unclear under what conditions international institutions, such as...

Curious? Check the paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Instead, we suggest that their legitimacy is derived from the appropriate role of climate scientists as trustees, who must be held accountable through mechanisms governed by public reason.

Can international institutions tackling climate change derive their legitimacy from the epistemic authority of climate scientists? In our new paper, Antoinette Scherz and I argue that the presence of non-epistemic values in climate science challenges this view.

Philosophers often claim everything deserves to be questioned, ever question has a place in philosophy. Until you start talking about intimacy and people shy away. Next year, I will start teaching a research master course entitled 'Politics of intimacy'.We will be asking the uncomfortable questions!

In her free time, Laura like enjoying the outdoors while climbing, hiking or biking. She is also into board games and weightlifting.

Do you want to know more about her and her work? You can visit: www.garcia-portela.com

Laura Garcia Portela: Rectifying Climate Injustice: Reparations for Loss and Damage - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -

Her first and new book, 'Rectifying Climate Injustice', has been reviewed recently in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today, we introduce Dr. Laura García-Portela, Assistant Professor in Environmental Philosophy.

Laura's work sits at the intersection of climate ethics, philosophy of climate law and philosophy of climate science. She is also interested in the ethics of relationships and family ethics.

Laura Garcia Portela: Rectifying Climate Injustice: Reparations for Loss and Damage - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -

Simon Kräuchi reviews my book 'Rectifying Climate Injustice: Reparations for Loss and Damage' for Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Another day in the Dutch Higher Education strike, another great turn-out - in a country in which scientists and scholarly don't have a tradition of disruptive protests. Enough is enough - the government must stop undermining the universities!

Do you want to know more about Nicholas? Visit: vrousalis.net

Do you want to read his book? Visit: academic.oup.com/book/44885?l...

In his free time, he enjoys listening to music and playing guitar. He is also interested in Gothic architecture.

Also, Nicholas has written extensively on capitalism and his most recent book is now accessible FOR FREE!

Nicholas Vrousalis is Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at the Erasmus School of Philosophy. He works at the intersection of political philosophy and economic ethics, with a side-interest in political economy and its criticism.

Vrousalis, Exploitation as domination, cover

My review of Nicholas Vrousalis' book just appeared in the last issue of the Revue de philosophie économique : ) shs.cairn.info/revue-de-phi...

In his leisure time, he enjoys watching classic movies, making stews and salads, playing social-deduction games, and broadening ​his musical tastes.

If you want to know more about Christopher's work, here you have his website: www.chrisclarke.eu

Various students and staff members have been involved in a reading group on his book, and we are all very much looking forward to its publication!

Christopher works on causation and causal inference, especially in political science and econometrics. He has just completed a book that uses "conceptually engineering" to resolve foundational disagreements about the nature of causation, without appeal to intuitions.

Today, we start a series of presentations of our staff members with our coordinator of the Research Master in Philosophy and Economics: Christopher Clarke.

For those early-career scholars in my network interested in Environmental Philosophy and Animal Ethics: come join us at the VEPSS Summer School! vepss.eu/programme/

An ideal place for networking and exploring new topics and ideas! I'll be lecturing there, together with other great philosophers!

EIPE meets every 2 weeks to discuss the work of senior guests, senior faculty and MA and PhD students at our EIPE Research Seminars.

On 30th January, we had the pleasure to welcome prof. Lukas H. Meyer (U. Graz).

Curious about his work? Check his website!
homepage.uni-graz.at/en/lukas.mey...