CEPS PhD Seminars
Events
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Stefano Calboli // AI Nudging and Autonomy: Delineating the issue and embracing the bright side
OnlineSession of the CEPS PhD Seminars.
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Pedro Pinheiro // Left-Wing Populism: What People?
CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online Rua da Universidade, Braga, PortugalSession of the PhD Seminar Series.
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Moral Immorality: Consequentialist justifications of wrongdoing
CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online Rua da Universidade, Braga, PortugalJoão da Rocha Rodrigues is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS), and has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Minho. His current PhD project is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). It focuses on the problem of acceptable partiality in ethics, as well as the ethical theories that reconcile…
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Funding an Universal Basic Income in the Digital Age: autonomy, circularity and non- domination in digital spaces
OnlineDigital platforms have become central to contemporary political, economic, and social activities, fundamentally reshaping human communication and interaction (Zuboff, 2019). Activities such as political debate, governmental decision-making, and even warfare now largely depend on the digital world. This shift introduces new norms for human interaction and impacts critical domains like politics, economics, and labor. However, the neutrality often ascribed to…
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What are values?
OnlineAbstract: This second chapter of my dissertation examines the nature of values and their role in shaping scientific theories. From this it aims to understand how values, by the same token, affect economic theories and practices, laying the groundwork for understanding how they intertwine with facts in economic thought. A significant development in recent literature is the questioning of rigid…
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Rodrigo Merayo Fernández // Poverty and Political Philosophy: Special Attention to Theories of Justice
OnlineSession of the CEPS PhD Seminars.
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The Concept of Sovereignity as a Neo-Repubican Source of Legitimacy in the European Union
CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online Rua da Universidade, Braga, PortugalAbstract: This article investigates the legitimacy of political authority within the European Union (EU) through the lens of neo-republican theory, emphasizing the principle of non-domination as the normative foundation of democratic sovereignty. It confronts a central question regarding the source of legitimacy, distinguishing legitimacy from justice and arguing that legitimacy arises not from pre-political legal frameworks, but from political processes…
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Elections and Representation: Fragile Affinity?
CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online Rua da Universidade, Braga, PortugalAbstract: Throughout history, political thinkers have doubted the alliance between representation and democracy. Even today, the idea that democracy is going through a crisis is often tied to the belief that a crisis of representation is underway. Protest movements emerging in the past decades have given credence to these doubts, expressing their discontent with the performance of elected representatives and…
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Joana Pinto // What Does Public Reason Demand of Political Parties? A Brief Comparative Theoretical Analysis
CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online Rua da Universidade, Braga, PortugalSession of the CEPS PhD Seminars.
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Kristina Vasic // Representation as a Structure of Domination
Session of the CEPS PhD Seminars.
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Leonardo Menezes // On Not Being at Home in the World: Refugees, State (Failure) and Home-Making
CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online Rua da Universidade, Braga, PortugalSession of the CEPS PhD Seminars.
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Ricardo Matos // Legitimacy in the European Union: A Neo-republican Political Theological Approach
CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online Rua da Universidade, Braga, PortugalSession of the CEPS PhD Seminars.