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Department of Political Science and Public Administration

NICHOLAS VROUSALIS

Post: Associate Professor

Section: Political Science

Expertise: Political Philosophy

 

Contact information

Office telephone: 210 368 8960

Electronic mail: nvrousalis@uoa.gr

Office address: 6 Themistokleous Street, 3rd floor, office 16

Office hours: 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Nicholas Vrousalis studied Economics at Cambridge (BA, MA, MPhil) and received his doctorate in political philosophy from Oxford (DPhil) in 2009. His DPhil was about ethical problems arising from distance in time. Since then, he has taught moral and political philosophy at Cambridge (as a university lecturer), Leuven (as a postdoc) and at Leiden (as assistant professor).

Vrousalis is currently associate professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Athens (part-time).

He has held fellowships at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (2018-19), at the University Center for Human Value at Princeton (2015-16), and at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard (2023-24).

Vrousalis’ research focuses on the relationship between exploitation and human freedom, capitalism and democracy, as well as the history of philosophy, with emphasis on Kant, Hegel, and Marx. This research has been published in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Economics & Philosophy, Journal of Ethics, and Kantian Review. His second monograph, Exploitation as Domination, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.

Recent books

  1. Kant on Citizenship and Poverty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026).
  2. Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
  3. Waheed Hussain. Living with the Invisible Hand: Markets, Corporations and Human Freedom. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023) (με τον Arthur Ripstein).

Recent articles

  1. ‘Walrasian Domination: Proletarian Unfreedom under Perfect Competition, Frictionless Markets, and Equal Political Influence’. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy (2026, forthcoming).
  2. ‘What’s the Wrong of Capitalism? A Reply to Chiara Cordelli’. American Political Science Review (2026, forthcoming).
  3. ‘Who needs Gilabertian dignity?’. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2025).
  4. ‘Replies to Barn, Love, Stanczyk on Exploitation as Domination’. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 16 (2023): 31-38.

 

Personal website: vrousalis.net