Theses from previous years
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