Vidi Project:
Social Justice and the New Welfare State
last updated 18 April 2009
In 2006, the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) awarded me a Vidi-grant to direct a project entitled Social Justice and the New Welfare State. The overall aim of the project is to investigate how the welfare state needs to be adapted to three socio-demographic changes (fertility decline, aging, and the changing nature of gender roles), in such a way as to be a just welfare state for children, parents and non-parents, the elderly and their carers, and women and men.
For a description of the project in English, click here
For a slightly shorter description of the project in Dutch, click here
(this is an article that has been published in Het Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte in slightly edited form).
This project runs from October 2006 until September 2011. Currently dr. Anca Gheaus and dr. Anders Schinkel are working on this project. Hugh Lazenby, currently a PhD student at Oxford University, worked for this project from September 2007 till August 2008; Irene Pronk worked on this project from September 2007 till februari 2009.
Dr. Martijn Boot is working on a closely related NWO-funded project on the transition from ideal to nonideal theories of justice, which runs from May 2009 till April 2012.
Forthcoming activities
On Friday 26 and Saturday 27 of June 26, 2009, we are organising a conference on 'Justice, Care and the Family'. The list of speakers can be consulted here. The full program with titles and abstract will be posted shortly.
Past activities
On December 3rd 2008, we organised a one-day workshop on 'Gender in Social and Political Philosophy' at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
Publications
Apart from my own publications, the following publications have been written as part of this project (in a few cases building on earlier work):
Lazenby, H. (forthcoming) 'One Kiss too Many? Giving, Luck-Egalitarianism, and Other-Affecting Choice', Journal of Political Philosophy.'
Pronk, I. (2007) 'De bevrijding voorbij', Filosofie en Praktijk, 28, pp. 50-56.