dr. N (Nicholas) Vrousalis

Biography

Nicholas Vrousalis is Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Vrousalis read economics at Cambridge and got his doctorate in philosophy at Oxford. He has since taught moral and political philosophy, economic ethics, and the history of philosophy at the universities of Cambridge, Leiden, and Leuven. Vrousalis has held fellowships at Aarhus, Princeton, and Harvard and has published widely in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Economics & Philosophy, Journal of Ethics, and Kantian Review. Vrousalis’ second monograph, Exploitation as Domination, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.

In 2019, Vrousalis was awarded a Vidi grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (€800,000) for a project investigating the relationship between freedom and economic inequality.

At EUR, Vrousalis is co-lead of the Digital Society theme in the SSH-Breed programme.