Humanities
I have been an ICREA Research Professor at UPF since 2010. Prior to that, I was Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, which I joined in 2001. I had first arrived at Cambridge in 1999, as a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, after studying at the University of Oxford, where I obtained a B.A., an M.Phil. and a DPhil.degree.
My work is in moral and political philosophy. I have worked on the ethics of markets, egalitarianism, and theories of well-being. Since September 2015, I have been 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. I hold we need to address these relatively neglected questions to develop a complete and defensible theory of justice.
– Olsaretti S 2018 (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice, Oxford University Press.
– Olsaretti S 2018, ‘Introduction: The Idea of Distributive Justice’, in Olsaretti S (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice, Oxford University Press.
– Olsaretti S 2018, ‘The Costs of Children‘, in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children, edited by Calder G, Gheaus A & van Wispelaere J, Routledge.
– Associate Editor of Ethics. An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy (since July 2018)
– PI of ERC Consolidator Grant on Justice and the Family: An Analysis of the Normative Significance of Procreation and Parenthood in a Just Society
– Organiser (with E Magnusson and I Trifan) of international conference on Intergenerational Justice and the Rights and Duties of Procreators (June 2018)
– Reviewer for Oxford University Press, and for Moral Philosophy & Politics and Utilitas
– Society for Applied Philosophy Executive Committee Member (Re-elected in July 2018)