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Casal Ribas, Paula
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ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Humanities
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Paula Casal joined ICREA in September 2008, having been Reader in Moral and Political Philosophy at Reading University, and Lecturer at Keele University (1996-2004). She was also Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University (1999-2000), Keele Junior Research Fellow, also at Harvard (2000-1), Hoover Fellow at Université Catholique de Louvain (2001-02), and Leverhulme Research Fellow at Oxford University (2002-3). Her work has appeared in such journals as Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy and Political Studies. She is an Associate Editor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics, President of the Great Ape Project-Spain and a board member of Academics Stand Against Poverty.
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Research Interests
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I work on how social institutions should distribute resources. This requires assessing the general principles (such as equality, priority, and sufficiency) governing distributive decisions as well as more specific policies designed to promote social or global justice. I am particularly concerned with policy responses to climate change and gender inequality, including various forms of taxation.
I am also interested in the intersection between ethics and primatology, including the origins of empathy and resource-sharing as well as violence and gender inequality, the moral status on non-human animals, and the distinction between natural and social inequality. I have also written about how the costs of raising children should be distributed, the moral limits to religious accommodation, and the difference medical ethics draws between therapy and enhancement.
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KeyWords
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National and international distributive justice, future generations, climate change, environmental taxes, animal ethics, evolutionary biology, gender, multiculturalism, and enhancement.
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