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Philippe Van Parijs | |
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| Born | Philippe Van Parijs 23 May 1951 |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley Bielefeld University Oxford University Université catholique de Louvain Saint-Louis University, Brussels |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy, 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytical Marxism Left-libertarianism[1] |
| Institutions | Nuffield College, Oxford, Université catholique de Louvain, Harvard University |
Main interests | Political philosophy, political economy, distributive justice |
Notable ideas | Universal basic income, linguistic justice, language tax, real freedom |
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Philippe Van Parijs (French: [filip vɑ̃ paʁɛjs]; born May 23, 1951) is a Belgian political philosopher and political economist, best known as a proponent and main defender of the concept of an unconditional basic income[2] and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice.[3]
In 2020, he was listed by Prospect as the eighth-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era, with the magazine writing, "Today’s young UBI enthusiasts draw on the books and tap the networks of this Belgian polymath, who championed it before it was fashionable. For decades, he has warned that our proclaimed freedoms to start businesses or raise children count for nothing without the real freedom that comes with a basic income".[4]
- ^ Vallentyne, Peter (2014). "Libertarianism". In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University.
- ^ "Van Parijs: An unconditional basic income in Europe will help end the crisis". 11 April 2014.
- ^ Philippe Van Parijs, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- ^ "The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age" (PDF). Prospect. 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.