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I’m Assistant Professor (University Lecturer) of Moral and Political Philosophy at Leiden University.
My research is in political and moral philosophy. I write about justice between generations, sustainability, global justice, ethics of the family and reproductive rights. I am also more and more interested in fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy, for example in the nature of value and the grounds of (equal) moral status. As a side project I am interested in transitional justice and the moral justification of punishment, particularly in the context of international criminal courts.
My current research takes place in the context of the NWO funded VENI project who owes what to future generations.
Before joining Leiden fulltime I was a postdoc on the ERC project “Fair Limits” at Utrecht university. In December 2016 I defended my doctoral thesis entitled Justice in Procreation at University of Louvain, which I wrote under the supervision of Axel Gosseries. In Louvain-la-Neuve I was based at the Hoover Chair for economic and social ethics. Before that, I studied political science at the University of Amsterdam and Philosophy at Leiden University.
I teach on a diverse set of questions in moral and political philosophy, for example global justice, truth in moral theory and cultural diversity in the bachelors and masters program at the Institute for Philosophy.
I am an active member of the Leiden Centre for Political Philosophy, an associate member of the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics (University of Louvain), an associate researcher at the ERC Fair Limits project (Utrecht) and a member of the Dutch Research School for Philosophy (OZSW) where I organise the reading group in political philosophy with Eric Boot. I am a member of the advisory board of the Ethics Lab in Yaounde. I’m also a member of a European Network Demography, Ethics and Public Policy.
The background picture of the menu was taken near the Monte dos Cebolas in Portugal. The background picture is the wall of a shop near the Nkolbisson campus of the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaounde, during the 2016 edition of the Yaounde Seminar.
Tim Meijers 