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|birth_name= Philippe Van Parijs
|region           = [[Philosophy:Western philosophy|Western philosophy]]
|era              = [[Philosophy:20th-century philosophy|20th-century philosophy]], 21st-century philosophy
|image       = Philippe Van Parijs (cropped).jpg
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|birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1951|5|23}}
|birth_place      = Brussels, Belgium
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|nationality      = Belgian
|school_tradition = Analytical Marxism<br>[[Philosophy:Left-libertarianism|Left-libertarianism]]<ref>Vallentyne, Peter (2014). "[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/ Libertarianism]". In ''[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]''. [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]].</ref>
|main_interests   = [[Philosophy:Political philosophy|Political philosophy]], [[Finance:Political economy|Political economy]]
|notable_ideas    = [[Social:Basic income|Basic income]], linguistic justice, [[Philosophy:Real freedom|Real freedom]]
| alma_mater       = [[Organization:University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]]<br/>Bielefeld University<br/>Oxford University<br/>Université catholique de Louvain<br/>Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis 
| institutions     = Nuffield College, Oxford, Université catholique de Louvain en Belgique, [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard University]]
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'''Philippe Van Parijs''' ({{IPA-fr|filip vɑ̃ paʁɛjs|lang}}; born 23 May 1951) is a Belgian political philosopher and political economist, best known as a proponent and main defender of the concept of a [[Social:Basic income|basic income]]<ref>http://www.euractiv.com/sections/social-europe-jobs/van-parijs-unconditional-basic-income-europe-will-help-end-crisis-301503</ref> and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice.<ref>Philippe Van Parijs, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.</ref>

==Education==
Philippe Van Parijs studied [[Philosophy:Philosophy|philosophy]], [[Philosophy:Law|law]], [[Finance:Political economy|political economy]], sociology and [[Social:Linguistics|linguistics]] at the Université Saint-Louis (Brussels), at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Louvain-La-Neuve, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Leuven, Oxford, Bielefeld and [[Organization:University of California, Berkeley|California]] (Berkeley). He holds doctorates in the [[Social:Social science|social science]]s (Louvain, 1977) and in philosophy (Oxford, 1980).<ref>[http://www.uclouvain.be/en-11688.html "Philippe Van Parijs"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927213751/http://www.uclouvain.be/en-11688.html |date=27 September 2007 }}, at uclouvain.be (in English)</ref>

==Career==
He is professor at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), where he directs the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics since its creation in 1991. He was a Visiting Professor at [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard University]]'s Department of Philosophy from 2004 to 2011, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven since 2006, and a senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, since 2011.

Van Parijs has also held visiting positions at the Universities of [[Organization:University of Amsterdam|Amsterdam]], [[Organization:University of Manchester|Manchester]], [[Organization:University of Siena|Siena]], Québec (Montréal), [[Organization:University of Wisconsin–Madison|Wisconsin]] (Madison), [[Organization:University of Maine|Maine]] (Orono) and Aix-Marseille, the [[Organization:European University Institute|European University Institute]] ([[Place:Florence|Florence]]), the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), the Catholic Faculties of [[Place:Kinshasa|Kinshasa]] (Congo), [[Organization:All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls College]] (Oxford), [[Organization:Yale University|Yale University]], Sciences Po (Paris), the Catholic University of Uruguay, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the École Normale Supérieure (Paris).

He is one of the founders of the [[Organization:Basic Income Earth Network|Basic Income European Network]] (BIEN), which became in 2004 the [[Organization:Basic Income Earth Network|Basic Income Earth Network]], and he chairs its International Board.<ref>http://basicincome.org/about-bien/</ref> He coordinates the Ethical Forum of the University Foundation. He also coordinates the [http://www.paviagroup.be/ Pavia Group]  with Kris Deschouwer and, with Paul De Grauwe, the [http://www.rethinkingbelgium.eu/ Re-Bel initiative]. He is a member of Belgium's Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts, of the International Institute of Philosophy, and of the [[Organization:European Academy of Sciences and Arts|European Academy of Sciences and Arts]] and fellow of the British Academy. In 2001, he was awarded the Francqui Prize, Belgium's most generous scientific prize.

== Work ==

=== Basic income ===
In ''Real Freedom for All: What (if anything) can justify capitalism?''<ref>Philippe Van Parijs, Real Freedom for All, What (if anything) can justify capitalism: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995</ref> (1995) he argues for both the justice and feasibility of a [[Social:Basic income|basic income]] for every citizen. Van Parijs asserts that it promotes the achievement of a [[Philosophy:Real freedom|real freedom]] to make choices. For example, he purports that one cannot really choose to stay at home to raise children or start a business if one cannot afford to. As proposed by Van Parijs, such freedom should be feasible through taxing the scarce, valued social good of jobs, as a form of income redistribution.

=== Linguistic justice ===
Another part of Van Parijs' work is about linguistic justice. In order to address the injustice arising from the privilege enjoyed by English as a global ''lingua franca'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290060830_A_Lingua_Franca_as_Condition_for_Global_Justice_Philippe_Van_Parijs_on_Linguistic_Justice|title=A Lingua Franca as Condition for Global Justice? Philippe Van Parijs on Linguistic Justice|website=ResearchGate|language=en|access-date=2017-11-15}}</ref> he discusses a wide range of measures such as a [[Social:Language tax|language tax]]<ref>Philippe Van Parijs, [http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/etes/documents/DOCH_122_%28PVP%29.pdf Europe's three language problems] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228083819/http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/etes/documents/DOCH_122_(PVP).pdf |date=28 December 2013 }}, Multilingualism in Law and Politics</ref> which would be paid by English-speaking countries, a ban on the dubbing of films, and the enforcement of a linguistic territoriality principle that would protect weaker languages.<ref>Philippe Van Parijs, [http://global.oup.com/academic/product/linguistic-justice-for-europe-and-for-the-world-9780199208876 Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World], Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.</ref>

Van Parijs's work is sometimes associated with the September Group of analytic Marxism, though he is not himself a Marxist.

== Political proposals ==

* National basic income.
* EU-dividend paid by VAT. 

==Bibliography==
Van Parijs' books include ''Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences'' (1981), ''Le Modèle économique et ses rivaux'' (1990), ''Qu'est-ce qu'une société juste?'' (1991), ''Marxism Recycled'' (1993), ''Real Freedom for All'' (1995), ''Sauver la solidarité'' (1995), ''Refonder la solidarité'' (1996), ''Solidariteit voor de XXIste eeuw'' (1997), ''Ethique économique et sociale'' (2000, with C. Arnsperger), ''What's Wrong with a Free Lunch?'' (2001), ''Hacia una concepción de la justicia global'' (2002), ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130620221023/http://www.uclouvain.be/en-12569.html Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity]'' (as editor, 2004), ''L'Allocation universelle'' (2005, with Y. Vanderborght), ''Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World'' (2011) and ''Just Democracy. The Rawls-Machiaveli Programme'' (2011).

''Arguing About Justice: Essays for Philippe Van Parijs'' (Axel Gosseries & Yannick Vanderborght eds., Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2012) was published on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

== Personal interests and skills ==
Van Parijs speaks [[Social:French language|French]], [[Social:Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Social:English language|English]], [[Social:Italian language|Italian]], [[Social:Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Social:German language|German]] and [[Social:Spanish language|Spanish]].{{cn|date=February 2018}}

==Honours==
*Ailsa McKay Lecture, 2017<ref>[http://www.caledonianblogs.net/wise/2017/02/27/2nd-ailsa-mckay-annual-lecture-save-the-date/ 2nd Ailsa McKay Lecture]</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927213751/http://www.uclouvain.be/en-11688.html Personal homepage]
* [http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/imprints/vanparijsinterview.html "The Need for Basic Income"], interview with Chris Bertram, ''Imprints'', vol. 1, no. 3 (March 1997)
* [http://www.europeandme.eu/17brain/952-unconditional-basic-income No conditions attached], interview by the magazine ''Europe & Me'', July 2012


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