The Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society is the leading research center in Portugal specializing in the fields of ethics and political philosophy. The Centre brings together PhD researchers, post-doctoral researchers and other associated researchers in these areas of knowledge.

The research activities of CEPS cover diverse topics including distributive justice, human rights, immigration and tolerance, unconditional basic income and property-owning democracy, democracy and the public interest, political rhetoric and populism, anarchism, civic virtues, human enhancement, applied ethics (including nudge theory, food justice) and philosophy of technology (including ethics of AI), the  ethics of war, and various issues in the history of moral and political philosophy.

The Centre publishes Ethics, Politics & Society, an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that publishes high-quality contributions in the Centre’s areas of expertise.

The Centre also hosts several academic events in political philosophy and ethics with an international scope. These include the Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, the Summer School in Political Philosophy and Public Policy, the CEPS Seminars, and the PhD Seminars.

The international panel of the Foundation for Science and Technology that assessed the Centre gave it the classification of “Very Good”.