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Curriculum Vitae
Philippe Van Parijs studied
philosophy, law, political economy, sociology and
linguistics at the Facultés universitaires Saint
Louis (Brussels) and the Universities of Louvain,
Oxford, Bielefeld and California (Berkeley). He
holds doctorates in the social sciences (Louvain,
1977) and in philosophy (Oxford, 1980).
He is professor at the Faculty
of economic, social and political sciences of the
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), where he directs
the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics since its
creation in 1991. He is also a Visiting Professor at
Harvard University's Department of Philosophy since 2004
at at the KuLeuven's Higher Institute for Philosophy
since 2006.
He also held visiting positions
at the Universities of Amsterdam, Manchester, Siena,
Québec (Montréal), Wisconsin (Madison), Maine (Orono)
and Aix-Marseille, the European University Institute
(Florence), the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow),
the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), the Catholic
Faculties of Kinshasa (Congo), All Souls College
(Oxford), Yale University, Sciences Po (Paris), the
Catholic University of Uruguay and the Autonomous
University of Barcelona and the Ecole normale supérieure
(Paris).
He is one of the founders of the
Basic Income European Network (BIEN), which became in
2004 the
Basic Income Earth Network, and he chairs its
International Board. He coordinates the
Ethical Forum of the University Foundation, as well
as, with Kris Deschouwer, the
Pavia Group
initiative. He is a member of Belgium's Royal Academy of
Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts, of the International
Institute of Philosophy, and of the European Academy of
Arts and Sciences and Fellow of the British Academy. In
2001, he was awarded the
Francqui
Prize, Belgium's most generous scientific prize. In
2007, a
post stamp was devoted to him within the framework
of a series ("This is Belgium") honouring nine
outstanding Belgian scholars.
He is a member of the editorial boards of Ethics,
Journal of Political Philosophy, Economics and
Philosophy, Politics Philosophy and Economics, Journal
of Ethics, Critical Review of International Social and
Political Philosophy, European Journal of Political
Theory, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Ethical
Perspectives, European Journal of Philosophy,
Philosophical Explorations, Journal of Multilingual and
Multicultural Development, Basic Income Studies,
Egalitarian Theory and Political Practice, Journal of
Applied Philosophy, Revue de philosophie économique,
Raisons politiques, Raison publique, Ethiek en
Maatschappij, Econômica and Sin permiso.
His 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
concepcion de la justicia global (2002),
L'Allocation universelle (2005, with Y.
Vanderborght), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for
the World (in progress) and
Cultural
Diversity versus Economic Solidarity (as
editor, 2004).
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Report of the Jury (April 21, 2001)
The Jury comes to a consensus and proposes M. VAN
PARIJS should be awarded the Francqui Prize 2001.
The conclusion of the Jury is formulated as follows :
Having deliberated the contributions of a field of
outstanding candidates of well deserved international reputation, it has
been proposed that the Francqui Prize for the year 2001 be awarded to
Professor Philippe VAN PARIJS.
Philippe VAN PARIJS is one of the foremost
philosophers of social justice in the contemporary world. He combines a
high level of philosophical illumination, based on a variety of
disciplinary insights, with an engagement in issues of human well being
of immense practical importance at an international level as well as in
Belgium. His work is widely regarded by scholars who have the highest
eminence in their different fields of philosophy, politics and
economics. Numerous symposia and critical studies have been devoted to
his work. VAN PARIJS has brought the quality of Belgian scholarship and
scholarly engagement with the world to the most eminent circles of the
community of the intellect.
Jury members :
Professor Renée C. FOX Ph.D.
Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
USA
Chairman
and
Professor John BELL
School of Social Sciences and Law
University of Leeds
UK
Professor Lucien BELY
Professor of Modern History
University of Paris - Sorbonne
Paris - France
Professor Samuel BOWLES
Director of Economics Program
Santa Fe Institute
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA - USA
Professor Russell DAVIDSON
GREQAM
Centre de la Vieille Charité
Marseille - France
Professor Hadyn D. ELLIS
School of Psychology and Pro Vice-Chancellor
Cardiff University
UK
Professor Gerda HASSLER
Philosophische Fakultät
Institut für Romantik
Potsdam - Germany
Professor G.W. HUMPHREYS, Ph.D.
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
UK
Professor Morton I. KAMIEN
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
MEDS Department-Northwestern University
Evanston, IL - USA
Professor Gerard KEMPEN
Departement Psychologie
Leiden University
The Netherlands
Professor Dickrank KOUYMJIAN
Haig & Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies
Director, Armenian Studies Program
California State University Fresno
USA
Professor Torsten PERSSON
Director, Professor of Economics
Institute for International Economic Studies
Stockholm - Sweden
Professor Gary C.W. SHYI, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Center for Research in Cognitive Science
National Chung-Cheng University
Taiwan, R.O.C.
Professor Heinz-Elmar TENORTH
Der Vizepräsident für Lehre und Studium
Humboldt Univerität zu Berlin
Germany
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