Dr. Caleb Althorpe

• Althorpe, Caleb, What Is Meaningful Work?, Social Theory and Practice, 49, (4), 2023, p579 - 604Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Althorpe, Caleb, Meaningful Work, Nonperfectionism, and Reciprocity, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
• Althorpe, Caleb and Martin Horak, The End of the Right to the City: A Radical Cooperative View, Urban Affairs Review, 59, (1), 2023, p14 - 42Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Althorpe, Caleb and Elizabeth Finneron-Burns, Are Saviour Siblings a Special Case in Procreative Ethics?, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 26, (1), 2023, p49 - 73Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Althorpe, Caleb and Elizabeth Finneron-Burns, Productive Justice in the 'Post-Work Future', Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI

My research is in contemporary political philosophy and political theory. I am particularly interested in questions that fall on the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics, especially questions surrounding meaningful work and economic justice, which is the focus of my current (2023-2025) IRC-funded project titled: "Justice and Meaningful Work." I am also interested in theories of justice more broadly, political liberalism, and applied ethics.

• Title

  Justice and Meaningful Work
  Summary

  This project uses research tools from philosophy to develop an account of what social justice requires when it comes to the provision of meaningful work in society. It does this by investigating the so far underappreciated political aspect of meaningful work's ethical importance, and how it connects to the conditions of persons' self-respect and their civic status as valued participating members of society. This project first provides new philosophical answers on what it is about work that can make it meaningful, and how meaningful work's ethical importance can best be integrated into a theory of social justice. It then offers answers on the legitimacy and feasibility of various social and economic policies that might be implemented by the state and other stakeholders to promote meaningful work in society.
  Funding Agency

  IRC
  Date From

  2023
  Date To

  2025

Politics, Philosophy, Ethics and Religion, Other social sciences,

• Faculty of Social Science Doctoral Completion Scholarship 2022-2023
• IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023-2025
• F. M. Barnard Scholarship in Political Philosophy 2017-2023