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Exploitation Workshop: Programme

Manchester workshops in Political Theory
August 31 – September 2, 2011

Convened by Adina Preda and Nicholas Vrousalis

Session 1, 31/08: What is exploitation?

Chair: Nicholas Vrousalis

14.00 – 15.10
Exploitation in the Liberal Capitalist State (abstract)
Mark Reiff (Manchester)

15.10 – 16.20
What is Exploitation? (abstract)
Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary, London)

16.20 – 17.30
Liberal vs. Marxian Perspectives on Exploitation (abstract)
Paul Warren (Florida)

Session 2, 01/09: Exploitation and Fairness

Chair: Adina Preda

9.00 – 10.10
Exploitation and Unfairness (abstract)
Wendy van der Neyt (Edinburgh)

10.10 – 11.20
Marxism, Equality and Exploitation (abstract)
John Filling (St John’s, Oxford)

11.20 – 12.30
Exploitation, Equality and the Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom (abstract)
Nicholas Vrousalis (Louvain)

Session 3, 01/09: Who Exploits?

Chair: John Filling

14.00 – 15.10
Who is responsible for exploitation? (abstract)
Benjamin Ferguson (LSE)

15.10 – 16.20
Is exploitation voluntary? (abstract)
Adina Preda (Montreal)

16.20 – 17.30
On Duty (abstract)
Karl Widerquist (Georgetown-Qatar)

Session 4, 02/09: Exploitation and the Virtues

Chair: Karl Widerquist

9.00 – 10.10
Exploiting an Individual’s Virtue (abstract)
Rob Lawlor (Leeds)

11.20 – 12.30
Exploiting Gift Givers (abstract)
Sara Belfrage (Stockholm)

Roundtable discussion

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Call for papers: Workshop on Exploitation

Exploitation: conceptual, normative and political perspectives

Manchester workshops in Political Theory, August 31 – September 2, 2011

Charges of exploitation are levelled on a daily basis at different agents in different contexts: trade and market exchanges, work relationship as well as personal relationships. Although the concept of exploitation has been central to the Marxist critique of capitalism, the pervasiveness of exploitative relationships has recently received attention in a number of important studies in political philosophy.

This workshop will attack three main questions: first, what exactly constitutes exploitation, second, whether exploitation is best conceived as a phenomenon necessarily involving a transgression of justice or fairness –and, if so, how- and, third, whether the best conception of exploitation –whatever that is- can still function as a critical tool for effective social critique of social structures, from small-scale institutions (such as the family) to large-scale economic phenomena (such as the mode of production).

Our aim is to provoke a rigorous discussion of the conceptual, normative and political intricacies of exploitation. We welcome papers that contribute to this aim, including work in analytic philosophy, analytic sociology and normative political science.

Please send an abstract by May 31st to the workshop convenors, Adina Preda and Nicholas Vrousalis, to exploitationworkshop2011@gmail.com

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Jerry Cohen and Socialism, Frankfurt

The Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Justitia Amplificata’ at the Goethe University of Frankfurt organised a wonderful workshop on Jerry’s thought between the 8th and 9th of April 2011.

The full programme can be found here. My own contribution, on Jerry’s account of exploitation, will be posted on this site shortly.

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Puzzles of Intergenerational Justice, Louvain

On the 24th and 25th of March 2011 I organised a small workshop at the Chaire Hoover, with the support of the funding council of the French-speaking community of Belgium (FNRS).

The workshop’s website is here. The papers presented were:

Metrics and Intergenerational Justice
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus)

Moral Value with Infinitely Many Locations of Value
Peter Vallentyne (Missouri)

Space vs. Time in Moral Philosophy
Daniel Attas (Jerusalem)

Poverty and Variable Populations
Nicole Hassoun (Carnegie Mellon)

Lockeans and Luck Egalitarians on Procreative Rights and Duties
Richard Arneson (San Diego)

Discounting while treating generations equally
Geir Asheim (Oslo)

Happiness and Future Generations
Bruno Frey (Zurich)

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Contact

Erasmus School of Philosophy / Bayle building
Erasmus University Rotterdam
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands

vrousalis [at] esphil.eur.nl

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Teaching

Lecture notes, etc.

Oxford & Stanford undegraduates, 2007-2009

History of Political Thought

Marx and Marxism

UC Louvain/KU Leuven graduates, 2009-2011

Analytical Marxism

KU Leuven/FUSL undergraduates, 2011-2012

Introduction to Political Philosophy

Cambridge undergraduates, 2012-2013

Supervisions: Part IA, IB, II

Lectures:

Metaethics (Part IA): Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Kant’s Ethics and Kantian Ethics (Part II): Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Liberalism, Communitarianism, Multiculturalism (Part II): Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Rawls and Nozick (Part IB): Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Leiden graduates, 2013-2014

Marx’s Capital: Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Rotterdam undergraduates, 2019-2020

Ethics and Economics

Amsterdam PPE, 2019-2020

History of Philosophy II: Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4

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Papers

in English

Monographs

Kant on Citizenship and Poverty

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026)

Exploitation as Domination

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)

The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen

(London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)

Edited book

Waheed Hussain, Living with the Invisible Hand

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)

Edited volume

‘Exploitation and the social economy’ (with Ben Ferguson)
Review of Social Economy 77 (2019): 91-93
(final)

Peer-reviewed papers

What is the Wrong of Capitalism? A Reply to Chiara Cordelli
Americal Political Science Review.

Who Needs Gilabertian Dignity?
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

‘Replies to Barn, Love, and Stanczyk on Exploitation as Domination
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 16 (2023): 31-38.
(final)

‘Interdependent Independence: Civil Self-Sufficiency and Productive Community in Kant’s Theory of Citizenship’
Kantian Review 27 (2022): 443-460
(final)

‘Socialism Unrevised: A Reply to John Roemer on Marx, Exploitation, Solidarity, Worker Control’
Philosophy & Public Affairs 49 (2021)
(final)

‘Free Productive Agency: Reasons, Recognition, Socialism’
Philosophical Topics 47 (2020)
(draft)

‘Public Ownership, Worker Control, and the Labour Epistocracy Problem’
Review of Social Economy 78 (2020)
(final)

‘Structural Domination and Collective Agency in the Market’
Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (2020)
(final)

‘How Exploiters Dominate’
Review of Social Economy 77 (2019): 1-28
(draft) (final)

‘Workplace Democracy implies Economic Democracy’
Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (2019): 259-279
(draft) (final)

‘Erfurt plus Councils: The Distinctive Relevance of the German Revolution of 1918-19’
Socialist History 55 (2019): 27-46
(draft) (final)

‘Revolutionary Principles and Strategy in the November Revolution: The Case of the USPD’
The German Revolution and Political Theory. Kets, G. and J. Muldoon (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan (2019): 113-34
(draft) (final)

‘Capital without Wage-Labour: Marx’s Modes of Subsumption Revisited’
Economics & Philosophy 34 (2018): 411-438
(draft) (final)

‘Council Democracy and the Socialization Dilemma’
Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics. Muldoon, J. (ed.). Routledge (2018): 89-107
(draft) (final)

‘Exploitation: A Primer’
Philosophy Compass 13 (2018)
(draft) (final)

‘Exploitation as Domination: A response to Arneson’
Southern Journal of Philosophy 54 (2016): 527-38
(draft) (final)

‘Analytical Marxism’
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Thompson, W.R. (ed.), Oxford University Press (2016)
(final)

‘Imperialism, Globalization, and Resistance’
Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric 9 (2016): 69-92
(draft) (final)

‘Integenerational Justice: A Primer’
Institutions for Future Generations, Gosseries, A. & I. Gonzalez (eds.), Oxford University Press (2016): 49-64
(draft) (final)

‘Analytical Marxism’ (with Philippe Van Parijs)
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, James Wright (ed.), 2nd ed., vol. I (2015): 665-7

‘Gosseries on Intergenerational Savings’
Diacritica 16 (2014): 301-6
(draft) (final)

‘G. A. Cohen on Exploitation’
Politics, Philosophy and Economics  13 (2014): 151-164
(final)

‘Exploitation, Vulnerability, and Social Domination’
Philosophy and Public Affairs 41 (2013): 131-157
(draft) (final)

‘Smuggled into Existence’
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (2013): 598-604
(draft) (final)

‘Jazz Bands, Camping Trips, and Decommodification: G. A. Cohen on Community’
Socialist Studies 8 (2012): 141-163
(draft) (final)

‘Lamentation in the Face of Historical Necessity’
Arguing about Justice: Essays for Phillippe Van Parijs, A. Gosseries & Y. Vanderborght (eds. 2011): 367-376
(draft) (final)

‘Libertarian Socialism’
Social Theory and Practice 37 (2011): 211-226
(draft) (final)

‘Responsibilities to Posterity’
Theoretical and Applied Ethics 1 (2011): 48-50

‘G. A. Cohen on Socialism’
Journal of Ethics 14 (2010): 185-216
(draft) (final)

‘Against the Will Theory of Rights’
Res Publica 16 (2010): 415-423
(draft) (final)

Essays

Technofeudalism is just capitalism
Catalyst 9 (2025): 103-110

‘Public Ownership and the Socialisation of Production in the German Revolution of 1918-19’
Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy 26 (2019)
(draft) (final)

Book reviews

‘Review of Slobodian, Hayek’s BastardsCapital & Class 50 (2026).

‘Sypnowich on What’s Wrong with Equal Opportunity’ Boston Review 26 (2023): 43-47.

‘Review of Pascoe, Kant’s Theory of Labour ’ Journal of the History of Philosophy 62 (2024).

‘Review of Kain, Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy’ Contemporary Political Theory 22 (2023).

‘Review of Screpanti, Labour and Value
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy & Economics 13 (2020)
(final)

‘Review of Sensat, The Logic of Estrangement
Economics & Philosophy 34 (2018): 282-289
(draft) (final)

‘Revolution, State, Workers’ Control: Besancenot, Miéville, and Medhurst on October’
Capital & Class 42 (2018): 353-59
(draft) (final)

‘Review of Thomas, Republic of Equals
Philosophical Review 128 (2018): 125-30
(draft) (final)

‘Freedom and Republicanism in Roberts’ Marx’s Inferno
Capital & Class 41 (2017): 378-83
(draft) (final)

‘Piketty’s Grandchildren’
Capital & Class 39 (2015): 155-60
(draft) (final)

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in French

‘Le Marxisme analytique’, ‘L’exploitation de l’homme par l’homme’
Dictionnaire des sciences humaines. Savidan, P. (ed.). Presses Universitaires de France (2018, forthcoming)

‘L’exploitation de l’homme par l’homme’
Dictionnaire de Théorie Politique (DiCoPo) (2011)
(final)

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in Greek

O Ψύλλος για τη Μεταφυσική της Μεθόδου στον Μαρξ
Κρίση 12 (2022)

Τι είναι ο αναλυτικός μαρξισμός;
Κρίση 3 (2018): 33-52

Introduction & translation of G. A. Cohen’s Why not Socialism? (Γιατί όχι Σοσιαλισμός;)
Εκδόσεις Εκκρεμές (2010)

Marx and Justice
Cogito 7 (2007)

What is Left-Libertarianism?
Cogito 5 (2006)

Translation of G. A. Cohen’s ‘Where the Action Is’ (‘Εκεί που βρίσκεται η πράξη: Περί του πεδίου της διανεμητικής δικαιοσύνης’)
Ισοπολιτεία VIII (2004)

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Bio

I was born in 1980 in Athens, Greece. I read economics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where I also did some graduate work. I subsequently migrated to political philosophy, eventually completing a doctorate at Oxford, where I was supervised by G.A. Cohen.

I work as associate professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and as associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Athens. Before that, I taught at Leiden, UC Louvain, KU Leuven, and Cambridge, where I was also Director of Studies in Philosophy at Jesus College and Trinity Hall.

I have held fellowships at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values (2015-16), at the Aarhus Institute for Advanced Study (2018-19), and at Harvard University’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (2023-24).

I am an associate editor of Politics, Philosophy & Economics, of the Review of Social Economy, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Philosophy. Since 2019 I have also been PI for the Inequality against Freedom project.

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