Anca Gheaus

My blogpost speaks Croatian! (Thanks to a kind translator, Martina Valković):
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21st Annual Doctoral Conference 2026 Humanity at a Turning Point: Reaffirming or Reimagining Political Common Sense? CEU’s Annual Doctoral Conference (ADC) provides an interdisciplinary space to present works in progress, receive c...

If you're a graduate student or know any, look at this call. This is an annual conference at CEU, with a stream of panels in political philosophy. And this year's keynote is Andrew Williams! Deadline for abstracts: the 26th of February.
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Join the club of philosophers and anarchists, who wonder whether those who bring children into the world should have the legal right to also bring them up, and if yes, for what reason:
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Worse than AI writing is AI reading. What can we do? In the classroom, boredom is the kiss of death; eyes would like to roll, hands to seek the phone – but they don’t, because my students are mostly polite and because I ban mobile phones in class. Ev…

I'm trying to wrap my head around how to use everybody's time in the classroom well, given that many students seem to be reading AI-generated summaries of assigned papers. A digest of what I learned so far, and an invitation to contribute ideas - or complaints:
justice-everywhere.org/general/wors...

What conference is this?

Breaking bread with the enemy - Nuffield Foundation

A few years ago I came across the great adventurer Daryl Davis, who still fascinates me today. When I was invited to be part of a book on public philosophy, I knew this was my chance to start sharing his story.
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Apply, encourage others to apply, and maybe share!

One Crisis to Solve Another? The Place of Care in a World of Automated Work Click on the article title to read more.

Sometimes having two problems is better than having only one:

Anca Gheaus, Parental Partiality in Unjust Circumstances: Inheritance as Insurance - PhilPapers There is broad egalitarian agreement that inheritance results in distributive injustice and indirectly delegitimises the political process; we should abolish it. But until we do this, and put in place...

Even if justice requires the abolition of inheritance, procreative liability and parental love generate duties that justify some bequests, limited in size and form. Or so I argue in this paper, now forthcoming in Ethics:
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If the positions of advantage in a society reward much in excess of what justice allows, or are unjust because they involve illegitimate power, should we still care about fair equality of opportunity to access them? I think not, for reasons I give here: philpapers.org/archive/GHEO...

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance o...

This handbook to the philosophy of human rights, edited by Jesse Tomalty and Kerri Woods is out (at an infuriatingly exorbitant price!) Lovely experience to work with them and contribute a piece on children's human rights.
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Some problems go away if ignored long enough. Not the one of how to teach given ChatGPT. Come talk about this at Justice Everywhere (and help me improve my current solution)!

Anca Gheaus, Conservatism, attachment, justice - PhilPapers It is not easy to be an egalitarian with a conservative sensitivity, especially in unjust societies. You can be one by turning to value pluralism – as G. A. Cohen and ...

If you have conservative sensitivities, can you also be an egalitarian? I think so. A forthcoming paper on a theme that Jerry Cohen discussed in one of my favourite philosophy pieces.
philpapers.org/rec/GHECAJ

You can still apply for next AY if you don't need a visa for Austria. Please spread the word.

Sanat Sogani - Work, Social Status and Self-Respect | 3MT CEU 2025 YouTube video by Central European University

Really proud of my student Sanat, who is giving a less than 3 minutes overview of his work here:
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So sad.

Postdocs in Louvain-la-Neuve, one of the best places to be!
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Writing Assignments in the age of Gen AI If Gen AI can consistently produce A grade articles across disciplines (for now, it seems they can’t, but they likely might), do we still need students to learn the art of writing well-researched l…

Another great post by Sanat Sogani, on what to do about the new AI tools when it comes to teaching and assessing students.
justice-everywhere.org/general/writ...

Thanks for the kind note, Katarina!

Procreative Liability and Equality before the Law Pallikkathayil argues that restrictions on abortion are inconsistent with the usual demands that states place on their citizens. States don't require their citizens to make their bodies available for...

I didn't think I'd write about abortion, but Japa Pallikkathayil's new article (in the Journal of Applied Philosophy) was inspiring - a new take on the issue! - and so I penned down this short reply to it:

Just out, my paper with Tim Meijers about Axel Gosseries' recent book on intergenerational justice. On the never ending fascination of the non-identity problem.

Envy and Fair Burden-Sharing: There and Back Again When should we say that two people are treated as equals from a distributive point of view? The straightforward response is that they are equal if they hold an identical bundle of resources. But si…

Read Alexandru Volacu on how the Athenians "managed to set up an institutional framework ... that curtailed both the concentration of massive wealth and the damaging political influence of the well-off." Non-ideal theory at its best.
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Deadline on the 4th of February.

And please share this announcement if it's likely that there are interested people in your network(s).

We have a superb student/faculty ratio, lots of time for, and attention to, our students. The CEU community is warm, supportive and unpretentious. And there are teaching opportunities for doctoral students from the second year onwards.

Apply to study for a doctorate in political theory at the Central European University, or tell others about this opportunity. All our students get funding (tuition fees and living costs.) Links to admission procedure and program:
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Not under the radar for some of us!

6th POLEMO Symposium The Political, Legal, and Moral Philosophy Research Group (POLEMO) at Central European University cordially invites abstract submissions for its annual conference, the 6th POLEMO Symposium, which will...

Come to Vienna in May, for the 6th yearly POLEMO symposium in political philosophy! Applications now open (for graduate students and early career people). Keynotes from Serena Olsaretti and Andrew Mason - not bad, huh?
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And please spread the word.

Can Stability Help Us Determine to Whom Justifiability is Owed?

More POLEMO@CEU news - all are welcome (onsite or online):
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There are worries about implementation, but the very fact that now parents can tell their children, in good conscience, that it's illegal to use social media is huge progress!