M.G.J. (Martijn) Boot, PhD

• DPhil (PhD), 2008, University of Oxford, Balliol College
• MSc, 2002, The London School of Economics and Political Science
• BA, MA, 2001, Utrecht University

Currently I am a tenured Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. Also, I am Academic Director of ‘Philosophy, Politics and Economics’ (PPE), ‘International Relations and International Law’ (IRIL) and ‘International Business and Entrepreneurship’ (IBE) at University College Groningen (UCG). Further, I am a member of the Examination Appeals Board (CBE).

Prior to coming to the University of Groningen I was an Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at Waseda University in Tokyo, where I worked for five years in the School of Political Science and Economics.

I obtained my doctorate in Political Philosophy from the University of Oxford (Balliol College). I wrote my dissertation under the supervision of G. A. Cohen and Joseph Raz. I also obtained an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA & MA in History of International Relations from Utrecht University.

After Oxford I continued my research at the University of Chicago, where I worked with Martha Nussbaum, the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Waseda University, and the University of Groningen. At the Erasmus University I worked together with Ingrid Robeyns on a project named ‘Transition from Ideal to Nonideal Theories of Justice’. This project was financed by a grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

The results of my research were published in a variety of international peer-reviewed journals, such as Philosophical Studies, Social Theory and Practice, The Journal of Value Inquiry and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.

My book, entitled Incommensurability and its Implications for Practical Reasoning, Ethics and Justice (London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017) is the result of my research on incommensurability of values and its implications for justice.

I received a three-year KAKENHI Research Grant-in-Aid from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for my research project, entitled ‘Conflicts of Justice’.

Research themes revolve around issues of (global) justice, conflicting values, rationally justified decision-making, freedom and responsibility, and the problem of a fair and efficient allocation of scarce health care resources in times of crisis and beyond.

I have extensive university teaching experience. I taught courses to postgraduate (PhD and Master’s) and undergraduate students from all over the world.

A full curriculum vitae, which includes an overview of my publications, keynote lectures, research awards, teaching experience, etc, is available upon request.