Olsaretti, Serena
Research Professor
Humanities
Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats
Spain
Biography
She studied at the University of Oxford where she obtained a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, an MPhil and a PhD in Political Philosophy. She then moved to Cambridge where she was a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College before joining the Faculty of Philosophy and St. John's College. ICREA Research Professor at UPF since October 2010.
Research Interest
Her work is in moral and political philosophy. She has worked on the ethics of markets, egalitarianism, and theories of well-being. Since September 2015, she is the PI of an ERC Consolidator project on "Justice and the Family. An Analysis of the Normative Significance of Procreation and Parenthood in a Just Society". The project examines what liberal egalitarian theorists of justice should think about how the costs and benefits of children should be distributed, both among contemporaries and across generations. She hold we need to address these relatively neglected questions to develop a complete and defensible theory of justice.
Publications
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“Freedom's Value: Some Persisting Questions for Amartya Sen's Capability Approachâ€, Jurisprudence 5, 1 (2014), pp. 369-375
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“Autonomy and Children’s Well-Being†(with P. Bou-Habib), in A. Bagattini and C. Macleod (eds.), The Nature of Children’s Well-Being. Theory and Practice, Dordrecht: Springer, 2015
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“Equality of Resources and the Demands of Authenticity†(with P. Bou-Habib), CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy), 19, 4 (2016), pp. 434-455
