
Post: Associate Professor
Section: Political Science
Expertise: Political Philosophy
Office telephone: 210 368 8960
Electronic mail: nvrousalis@uoa.gr
Office address: 6 Themistokleous Street, 3rd floor, office 16
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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.
Personal website: vrousalis.net