The Department of Philosophy is delighted to announce that Stamatina Liosi has completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr Edward Kanterian and Professor Simon Kirchin.
Stamatina’s thesis addresses a question of contemporary philosophical debate: What is the philosophical basis of human and socioeconomic rights? This is an important question given the indeterminacy of rights, and the suspicions regarding their universal validity. What I suggest then is the determination of their philosophical basis. Such a philosophical task would provide the grounds for the clarification of the concept of these rights revealing their true nature, and it would show whether or not these rights are universally valid.
Ultimately, she argues that in our dominant ‘rights era’, although we should not reject the moral, legal, and political ideas of human and socioeconomic rights, we should put these ideas aside for a while, in order to strengthen the old category of duties, so that eventually both rights and duties could be seen as equal parts in a future account of international justice.
Congratulations to Stamatina on this achievement.
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