Workshop with Professor Philippe Van Parijs
under the Auspices of RitsumeikanUniversity & HokkaidoUniversity
Real Freedom for All !
13:00-18:00, July 7, 2006
Multipurpose Room,ArtResearchCenter, RitsumeikanUniversity
Purpose: Professor Philippe Van Parijsis world-widely well known as an advocator of the Basic Income Policy and Real Libertarian Theory. The purpose of this workshop is to examine his excellent idea of “Real Freedom for All”, which is in the heart of his Real Libertarian Theory and is philosophically ground of the Basic Income Policy. Through reconsidering the meanings of job, employment, work and leisure and shedding a new light on exploitation, equity, freedom and justice, the reason of public policies such as the income security or the equal work opportunities will be more radically inquired.
Time Schedule (tentative)
Chair Person: Professor Dumouchel (GraduateSchool of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at RitsumeikanUniversity)
13:00-13:05 Opening Remark by Professor Nishi (Dean of GraduateSchool of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at RitsumeikanUniversity)
13:05-13:10 Introduction
13:10-14:10 Keynote Speech by Professor Philippe Van Parijs“Real Freedom for All!”
14:10-14:25 Comment 1 by Taku Saito (Graduate Student at Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University)
14:25-14:40 Comment 2 by Shinji Murakami (Graduate Studentat Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University)
14:40-15:00 Reply by Professor Philippe Van Parijs
15:00-15:20 Break
15:20-15:35 Comment 3 by Professor Shinya Tateiwa (Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University)
15:35-16:05 Short Lecture by Associate Professor Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University)
16:05-16:40 Short Lecture by Professor Reiko Gotoh (Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University)
16:40-17:00 Break
17:00-17:50 Free Discussion
17:50-18:00 Closing Remark by Professor Dumouchel
* Consecutive interpretation from English to Japanese will be given.
Introduction of Professor Philippe Van Parijs
Philippe Van Parijs is professor at the Faculty of economic, social and political sciences of the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), where he directs the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics since its creation in 1991.
Since 2004, he is also a Visiting Professor at HarvardUniversity's Department of Philosophy.
He obtained a DPhil in philosophy from OxfordUniversity and a doctorate in the social sciences from LouvainUniversity, after studying political economy, sociology, law and linguistics at the Facultés universitaires Saint Louis (Brussels) and the Universities of Louvain, Bielefeld and California (Berkeley).
He held visiting positions at many institutions abroad, including the Universities of Amsterdam, Manchester, Siena, Québec (Montréal), Wisconsin (Madison) and Maine (Orono), the European University Institute (Florence), the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), the Catholic Faculties of Kinshasa (Congo), All Souls College (Oxford), Yale University, Sciences Po (Paris), the Catholic University of Uruguay, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Aix-Marseille.
He is one of the founders of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN), which became in 2004 the Basic Income Earth Network ( and he chairs its International Board.
In 2001, he was awarded the Francqui Prize, Belgium's most generous scientific prize.
Joint Hosting:
・The Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University
・The Institute of Humanities, Human and Social Sciences at Ritsumeikan University
・Academic Foundation Research Project at HokkaidoUniversity“Comparative
Research on Transformation of Governance in the Age of Globalization”
Financial Support:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology“Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools”
Contact: Inter-FacultyGraduateSchool Office
TEL:075-465-8375 FAX:075-465-8364
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Access to the Campus:
*Due to the capacity of the room, admission will be restricted (first-come and first-served basis).
*Please use public transportation since there is no parking lot.
*No food or drink is allowed.