2020-21

  • Topolski’s Relationality and Pragmatic Feminist Possibilities for Political Ethics: Arendt, Levinas, Rorty and Cavarero in Conversation
  • How can participatory democracy technology facilitate a greater sense of freedom amongst workers?
  • Is it permissible to pay refugees to leave? An analysis of the voluntariness and discrimination and how they impact the permissibility to pay refugees to leave
  • How to give life to AI politicians? Can Dreyfus’s critic of AI, and Haraway’s concept of situated knowledge open a path for politically active artificial beings?
  • Zarathustra wants to become human again.The Nietzschean political criterion between Vattimo and Deleuze.
  • Happiness research in politics: should we really apply it?
  • Pakistani Migrants in Barcelona: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Community’s Political Participation in Catalonia
  • Inheritance as a Legitimate Form of Sacrifice
  • Resistance and the Human-Animal Distinction Through Derrida and Foucault
  • Modern problems require modern ideas Why responsibility does not end at territorial borders
  • Asphyxiation and capitalism: Berardi, Lazzarato and the articulation of asphyxiation in higher education
  • Should they be considered as opposed sides of the same phenomenon?
  • Love for the Left. Feminist Hermeneutics and Populism
  • Why marriage? In praise of caring beyond nuclear family
  • Social Science and Moral Philosophy: Disagreement, Debunking, Calibration.
  • Nili’s deep public ownership view: implausible and unhelpful?
  • The political feasability of a social minimum: assessing the cross-ideological support for a Universal Basic Income
  • The intersectional nation: building the country from the left 

 

2019-20

  • Confronting climate change the gentle way: On the moral advantages of consumption taxes
  • The Legitimacy of Disobedience and Political Violence in Territorial Conflicts
  • Critical Art and Social Changes in Naples: The Politics of Aesthetics in Jorit's Work
  • The psychology of political propaganda: the psychological mechanisms motivating the politics of Us and Them.
  • Political Anger and its Control
  • Politics of mental illness in the age of late cognitive capitalism; challenging the hegemony of the biological model for mental illness 
  • The Peter Singer Controversy: A Discussion about Disability and Quality of Life
  • How Israel perpetuates a structure of settler colonialism: an analysis of the relationship between settler colonialism, Orientalism and genocide
  • Articulating Insecurity under Neoliberalism: Agamben, Klein, Brown and the Case of France
  • Striking a balance between resource sovereignty and resource cosmopolitanism. An analysis of Anna Stilz: Territorial Sovereignty
  • Schizo-Analysis and Netflix: Data-Entertainment and the Phenomenon of Netflix 'Originals'
  • "We are just laughing". A modest proposal for the debate on the limits of humour
  • Can European Union's Identity be based on Constitutional Patriotism?
  • Tryptich of Experience. Crisis, Expropriation and Survival
  • Non-Parental Family Umpires. The Case for a Limitation of Patria Potestas
  • Revisiting the Theory of Participatory Democracy. Strengthening citizenry through the institucionalization of mini-publics
  • Moral does not mean legal. A defence of the morality and illegality of commercial surrogacy 

 

2018-19

  • Why Do Theories of Justice Need an Idea of Human Nature? The 'Capabilities Approach' and the Idea of 'Human Nature'
  • “A Community of Interruptions”: Thinking Postcoloniality Through Fanon and Rancière’s Notions of Race and Violence
  • On Democratic Participation: An Analysis of the Role of Participation in the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in Contrast with the Inclusive Democracy Model
  • Examining Truth and Hope In Transitional Justice, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa
  • A Libertarian Defense of Gun Control
  • “No Hate, No Fear, Immigrants are Welcome Here!”: Exclusion and The Construction of Citizenship in the United States
  • Arts Against God: Bataille and How Literature can Change Stablished Notions
  • An Approach to Degrowth: Philosophy, Political Theory and Political Practice
  • The Lessons of Historical Materialism for Intergenerational Justice
  • The Universal Educational Basic Income: A Defence Driven Towards a Moral Crash
  • Working Hours and the Basic Structure: On the Injustice of the Spanish Split Shift
  • Eichmann in Langley: A Report on the Radical and Banal Evil of U.S. Covert Drone Warfare
  • Community and Counterhegemony. Reconciling Difference and the Left
  • Does The Value of People’s Opportunities, as Opposed to the Quality of their Choices, Affect their Liability?
  • Could an Asymmetrical Regime for Catalonia within the Spanish State Prevent its Secession?
  • The Merits of Trade Protectionism
  • Addressing Justice and Legitimacy Concerns of Solar Geoengineering
  • Climate Justice and the Obligations of Procreators and Parents
  • On The Double Standard: The Linguistic Rights of Minority Nations And Migrants
  • The Social Contract as a Source of Hope:  Richard Rorty vs Martha Nussbaum
  • Barred From the Ballot: A Defense of Prisoner Voting Rights in the United States
  • Why we ought not to colonize Mars yet: The role of the precautionary principle in space ethics
  • Walling In, Walling Out: Citizenship Revocation and the Subject Walled in
  • German National Identity, East-West Inequality and the Politics of Recognition

 

2017-18

  • Unmasking Speciesism: an (Animal) Ethics
  • A Critique Phenomenon of Cultural Resistance in “On the post-colony” of Achille Mbembé
  • A Rortyan Reading of Mohsin Hamid
  • Contingency, Weak Thought and Revolutionary Action
  • Agonistic pragmatism on conflict and persuasion in the post-foundational political thought of Richard Rorty, Ernesto Laclau, and Chantal Mouffe
  • Cultural Otherness Rejuvenates Philosophy
  • Levels of Democracy: Gearing procedures towards sound actions
  • Is Moral Bioenhancement Limiting Freedom?
  • Stasis/Civil War in Foucault and Agamben
  • Data and Democracy – Challenges and Opportunities
  • The Power of Redescription. On the liberating potential of Richard Rorty’s postmetaphysical liberal utopia
  • A Radical Weapon: An Analysis of Feminist Consciousness-Raising from the Perspective of Rorty’s Thought
  • Against the Mind's Terror: Philosophy of the Body as a Central Theme of D.H. Lawrence Political Thought. A Spinozist Analysis
  • Rorty, la izquierda estadounidense y el pluralismo político
  • Why Sexual Consent Matters. An assessment of Catherine MacKinnon’s feminist critique of consent
  • A pragmatic approach of distributive justice
  • Weak Nationalism In Defence of the Political
  • Sufficiency: Distributive or Contributive?
  • Distributive Justice for Mice and Men
  • Occupational Choice and the Incentive Problem

 

2016-17

  • Philosophy of Freedom:  Imagining Karl Marx’s Idea of Human Emancipation
  • Liberalism, inequality and the decay of western socities
  • Regulations Up in Smoke. Spain’s Medical Cannabis Law as a Social Justice Failure
  • Saving 5000 Rupees Today, Harming Society Tomorrow against Nonmedical Sex Selective Abortion in Sexist Societies
  • Responsibility to Alter the Means of Development  for Climate Change Mitigation
  • Derrida’s deconstruction of hospitality. A way for understanding the case of closed borders in Europe and the current crisis of refugees

 

2015-16

  • An analysis and assessment of the political criticisms of the linguistic normalisation in Navarre. A deference of normalisation from the standpoint of liberal principles.
  • Gone with the waves: responding to small island developing states’ existential threat
  • Law and space in Kafka
  • Can re-education ever be justified in a free society?
  • The case for cultural accommodation: four relevant factors
  • Worker cooperatives in liberal Democracies - a Philosophical Deference
  • If you're an egalitarian, how come you eat meat?
  • Towards a responsible Ethics: Derrida and Levinas on Hospitality
  • The autonomy-based argument for a shorter working week
  • What do news have to do with legitimacy?
  • Towards a human-rights criterion of ligitimacy for international institutions: an analysis on the role of humans rights in assessing legitimacy in theories of global order
  • Mexican imagined communities: the unexpected result of national education
  • Tension or limitation? The problem of the body in Simone Weil anthropological thesis
  • Rawls, intergenerational justice, and the positive savings principle
  • "Children of men": what we owe domesticated animals
  • Revisiting the fanon-srtre dialogues: on Sartre´s methodology employed in an existential-marxist narrative of decolonization
  • Hannah Arendt an the right to have rights

 

2014-15

  • Work Ethic.  A Common Cause Defied
  • Justice, Hauntology and the Political Space.  A Derridean lecture on Judith Butler.
  • Benefitting from Independent Campaign Spending: The Case for Maximin Reform and Campaign Expenditure Taxes
  • Who Can Save Western Society? 
  • Religion, Women, and Societal Decay in Houellebecq’s Novels
  • Fair Play and Political Obligation
  • In Defence of the Union: Discussing Federalism and Devolution in the UK
  • Is There Room for Communitarianism in Political Liberalism?
  • Justifying Reasons for Action
  • Under what conditions should nations undertake reparations for historical injustices?
  • Reclaiming the Right to Freedom of Conscience from the European Court of Human Rights: The Case Against the Campbell Threshold
  • Collective Responsibility as the Ethical Approach to Affluent Citizens’ Role towards Global Poverty
  • Anonymous within the multitude
  • Rational Believers. How economic modeling of equilibrium relies on theological concepts
  • True Commitment and Hand-Tied Policy Makers: the Case of Equal Pay Audits
  • Rawls and Opportunities for Meaningful Work
  • How should International Humanitarian Law treat transnational conflicts involving non-state groups?
  • The Implications of the Ideal of Public Reason for Multiculturalism and Liberal Nationalism

 

2013-14

  • The Muslim veil and women's rights: autonomy-promoting education as a possible solution
  • Freedom of Political Speech: Far-Right Parties, a Slippery Slope
  • Right of Admittance Reserved: Obligations and the Right to Exclude
  • The Global Distribution of Education: Its Value and Practical Implications
  • Should states ensure media diversity?
  • Education and a Maximinimizing Principle
  • Do our Obligations to Future Generations require a Steady State Economy?
  • Does the non-identity problem challenge the view that we have moral obligations to prevent climate change?
  • Should they stay of may they go? On the permissibility of retaining skilled workers in some cases of brain drain
  • Basis for a Code of Ethics for Professional Politicians
  • The Moral Wrong of HIV Transmission
  • The Challenges to Indigenous Self-Determination within the Colonial Framework of the BC Treaty Process
  • The Individual, Economic Freedom, Society
  • Unilateral Secession in Liberal Democracies: The Case of Catalonia
  • Equality and Difference? Can Sharia marriage and divorce laws be compatible with the requirements of a democratic society?
  • Analysis of "A New Beginning" based on the theory of judgment
  • The Distributive Justice of Waves for Surfing
  • Is a permanent prohibition on the use of Lethal Autonomous Weapons justified?
  • The Humanitarian Intervention in Lybia between Legitimacy and Legality
  • Marketing to children: a neo-Republican perspective
  • Political Legitimacy and Institutional Innovation

 

2012-13

  • "Practicing Utopian Wonder as a Technique of the Self" with the Music of Steven "Flying Lotus" Ellison.
  • John Gray's Myth of Progress: Science, Ethics and Politics.
  • Debating indirect discrimination: the case of Roma in the recent European jurisprudence.
  • Entrenchment of Democratic Rights. A review of three cases.
  • The case for including resource allocation in the debate on legalising euthanasia.
  • An evolutionary debunking explanation of nationalism. On error theory, cosmopolitan chimps and nationalistic bees.
  • Equality through effort? Possibilities and limitations of an effort-based egalitarian model of distribution.
  • Equality in innovation: women in STEM careers
  • The fictional dichotomy of inequality
  • "Untargeted" killing in targeted killing: problems of justification and their implications
  • The broken social contract. A case for violent civil disobedience.
  • Republicanism, radical democracy and the participatory demands of the 15-M movement.
  • Can nationalism be justified as a means to democratic ends? In Giuseppe Massini's A Cosmopolitan of Nations
  • Legitimacy of executive power on foreign policy - Rethinking of Lockean approach of federative power -
  • Flexicurity in the European Union: can social justice still be achieved without protecting labor?
  • The structural impossibility between Justice and Culture: Justice as sublimation and projection
  • Authentic love as the mutual recognition of two liberties and the revelation of self
  • Judicial review and democracy: the ideal or the inevitable?
  • The human right to a safe environment: proposal for the future

 

2011-12

  • Social Justice and the Family
  • Equal and Sufficient Education. Justice in the Distribution of Positional and Non-Positional Educational Goods
  • Is it illegitimate the interference with the applicant's private life in Peck v. the United Kingdom case?
  • Egalitarianism, Efficiency and Occupational Choice
  • Justice in health care under resource constraints. Ageing and technological change
  • Authority and Power in the Narrative of Military Disobedience
  • Richard Rorty's "Liberal Utopia": Ethics without Foundations? An Interpretation of Rorty's Metaethical Assumptions
  • Nationalist Thought and Immigration. An analysis of Catalan Nationalist Formulations of Nationhood and Immigration
  • The Blurring of the Civilian Combatant Dichotomy: A Film Analysis
  • "Squaring the Circle": The Paradox of Foundations
  • Purifying and repressing: pushing aside the filth in Wallace's Infinite Jest
  • Dog Ethics. A Recognition of Duties Towards our Canine Companions
  • Biological Interpretation of Mental Illness excludes external causes of depression and thus enables social control
  • Can Rawlsians Deliver Gender Equality?
  • Two readings of the Service Conception. A Critical Approach
  • Rescuing Promises from Conventionalism
  • Revising Hayek in light of the financial crisis: evolutionary changes in markets and the role of individual liberty in securing human progress
  • Who should be granted asylum? In search of a normative justification of the duty to grant asylum, and of the current regime's restricted recognition of "the persecuted"
  • Uncertainty, Risk and Luck Egalitarianism

 

2010-11

  • Legitimate Political Authority and International Institutions: towards Human Rights
  • Concepto de autodeterminación en Will Kymlicka y en Michel Seymour: una aproximación analítica
  • Independent Financial Institutions and Democracy
  • How to Solve Consequential and Deontological Arguments
  • Why do EU symbols fail in "constructing" a European Collective Identity?
  • Moral Autonomy and the Egalitarian Ethos