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Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Lucas Petroni is an Associate Professor at the São Paulo School of Economics (EESP FGV), coordinator of the Lab for Economics and Applied Philosophy (LEAP - FGV) e and researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap). He holds degrees in philosophy and political science from the University of São Paulo (USP) and was a visiting doctoral and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy of Yale University, University of São Paulo, and the Research Center Normative Orders (Goethe Universität). Lucas is an associate researcher at the Brazilian Center for Research and Planning (Cebrap) where he conducts research on the themes of climate justice and the nature of egalitarianism. He is co-author of the book "A New Science of Politics" (2021). His current research aims to understand and analyze claims for equality in societies marked by structural injustices. His main research themes are: contemporary theories of justice, inequality, poverty, political authority, second-person morality, climate justice, and the philosophy of John Rawls. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The overall intention of this research is to contribute to the current debate on the normative bases of egalitarian justice. In its current stage, the project aims to answer the following question: what is the wrong of poverty from a normative point of view? My working hypothesis is that, in spite of other kinds of problems associated with it, poverty (or material deprivation in general) …
The projects goal is to evaluate the most relevant arguments concerning social justice in the past decades. To achieve this end (1) it tries to consider the proper mode of moral reasoning underpinning egalitarianism and (2) it attempts to defend an interpretation of John Rawls "democratic egalitarianism" as the best account of egalitarianism. (AU)
My research takes place inside the philosophical inquiry - and the recent debates on - the value of equality. I intend to move around the new theoretical possibilities brought up by the philosophical controversy between social egalitarians and distributive egalitarians to address the normative nature of certain relations of social inequality. More specifically, the question about what (if…
The project proposes to articulate and defend an alternative justificatory argument for rights associated with distributive principles in a democratic society. Different from common theories on the field - the interest-based model and the status-based model - the project carries out a third moral ground for rights: the model based on mutual respect between equals. The project has two main…
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