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I joined the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin as an Associate Professor in August 2019. Between January 2013 and August 2019, I was a lecturer in political theory in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. Prior to that, I held positions at the University of Montreal, at the Hoover Chair, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and at University College Dublin. I obtained my PhD in political philosophy in 2006, at the University of Manchester, with a PhD thesis entitled 'A moral justification of humanitarian intervention'. In November 2018, I was awarded a 5-year ERC Consolidator grant for my project REAL-Rights and Egalitarianism, which started in September 2019

Research Tags

Equality rights Global Justice Human Rights social justice Theories of Global Justice

Research Projects

Project Title

Rights and Egalitarianism -REAL

From

2019

2024

Summary

REAL opens up new perspectives in moral and political philosophy by closing the rift between analytical theories of rights and egalitarian theories of distributive justice. There is a perception in both the academic and public discourse that pursuing egalitarian economic policies is incompatible with a commitment to rights. Socialist thinkers have traditionally been sceptical of rights, and contemporary egalitarian theories are often silent about them. At the same time, theories that take rights seriously either neglect the distributive dimension or suggest that egalitarian redistribution may infringe on individual rights. Egalitarianism and rights thus appear to be inhospitable to each other. This project seeks first, to understand what explains this divide and second, to demonstrate that it can be bridged.

Funding Agency

ERC

Programme

H2020

Representations

Details	Date
HEA representative on the RIA Gold Medal in Social Sciences Awards Committee	2019
AHSS, UL Representative to the Irish Humanities Alliance board	2017

Languages

Language	Skill Reading	Skill Writing	Skill Speaking
English	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
French	Fluent	Medium	Medium
Italian	Medium	Basic	Medium
Romanian	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
Political Science Association of Ireland	2013	2020
British Society for Ethical Theory
Society for Applied Philosophy, UK

Publications and other Research Outputs

Conflicts of Rights in, editor(s)Margaret Gilbert, Jeffrey Helmreich & Gopal Sreenivasan , Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Rights, Palgrave, 2024, [Adina Preda], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED

Human rights and equality in, editor(s)Jesse Tomalty and Keri Woods , Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human Rights, 2024, [Adina Preda], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED

Preda, Adina & Kristin Voigt, Shameless luck egalitarians, Journal of Social Philosophy , 2022, Notes: [Early view], Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text URL

Libertatea de exprimare si deplatformarea (Freedom of expression and de-platforming) in, editor(s)Alex Volacu, Daniela Cutas and Adrian Miroiu , Alegeri morale (Moral Choices), Iasi, Polirom, 2021, [Preda, Adina], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text

Adina Preda, `Justice in Health or Justice (and Health)?""How (Not) to Apply a Theory of Justice to Health, Public Health Ethics, 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL

Adina Preda, Equality and Opportunity, Review of Equality and Opportunity, by Shlomi Segallomi Segall , Journal of Moral Philosophy, 15, (1), 2018, p241-244 , Review, PUBLISHED

Adina Preda, Review of Why inequality matters: luck egalitarianism, its meaning and value, by Shlomi Segall , Ethics, 128, (1), 2017, p276-281 , Review, PUBLISHED

Human rights, climate change, and sustainability in, editor(s)Gerhard Bos & Marcus Düwell , Human rights and sustainability: moral responsibilities for the future, Routledge, 2016, [Adina Preda], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED URL

Preda, A., Are There Any Conflicts of Rights?, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 18, (4), 2015, p677-690 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL

Preda, A., Voigt, K., Health and Social Justice: Which Inequalities Matter (Most)? Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "The Social Determinants of Health: Why Should We Care?", American Journal of Bioethics, 15, (8), 2015, pW1-W3 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL

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Group rights and group agency in, editor(s)Thom Brooks , Law and Legal Theory: Studies in Moral Philosophy, Brill Academic Publishers, 2014, [Adina Preda], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

Adina Preda, Review of Recourse to Force: State Action against Threats and Armed Attacks, by Thomas Frank , The Nordic Journal for Human Rights, 21, (4), 2003, p478-481 , Review, PUBLISHED

Awards and Honours

Award	Date
ERC Consolidator Grant for REAL - Rights and Egalitarianism (2019-2024), 1,319,355	2019-2024
H2020 proposal preparation grant, Enterprise Ireland, 6,959	2017
International Activity Challenge Fund, University of Limerick, 3,625	2017
Marie-Curie pre-doctoral fellowship, Ruhr University, Bochum,	2005
Three-year Departmental Scholarship for PhD research at the University of Manchester, Department of Government	2000-2003
OSI/Foreign and Commonwealth Office/University of Manchester Scholarship for MA degree at the University of Manchester	1998-1999

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

I work mainly on rights and distributive justice. I am specifically interested in analytical theories of rights and the role that rights play in our moral theorising. In terms of distributive justice, I focus on egalitarian theories of justice and specifically luck egalitarianism. I am trying to bring these two areas closer together in my current project on 'Rights and Egalitarianism'. I have also done work on justice in health, with particular reference to (in)equality in health outcomes.

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