Iñigo González Ricoy

I am an associate professor of political philosophy and an ICREA Academia fellow at the University of Barcelona. 

I am also a member and coordinator of Polis, a recently created research group in social and political philosophy, a member of the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy, and an external member of the Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale at the Université de Louvain and the Law & Philosophy group at UPF, where I held postdoctoral positions in the past. I have also been a visiting fellow at the LSE and the Universities of Oxford, Complutense of Madrid, Goethe Frankfurt, and Columbia, a visiting professor at UPF and, during my PhD, which I got in 2012 at UB, a visiting student at NYU, UCL, and Minho. 

My research focuses on democratic theory, theories of intergenerational and labor justice, and the political theory of the firm. I am currently working on two books: a monograph on labor-managed firms, under contract with Oxford University Press, and a coedited volume on workplace republicanism, under contract with Routledge. I am also a coeditor of Law, Ethics & Philosophy.

Below you can take a look at my books, articles, teaching, mentoring, and outreach. You can also check out my PhilPeople and Google Scholar profiles.

Books

Razones públicas. Una introducción a la filosofía política, ed. with J. Queralt (Barcelona: Ariel, 2021).

Institutions for Future Generations, ed. with A. Gosseries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). 

La voluntad de coherencia. Homenaje a JM Bermudo, ed. with L. Pla & V. Méndez (Barcelona: Horsori, 2016).

Articles

Efficient Production without Domination: The Case of Labor-Managed Firms, American Political Science Review, published FirstView.

Freedom, Authority, and the Organization of Work, in J. Jonker and G. Rozeboom, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Work (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Intergenerational Subjection (w/ P. Magaña), Legal Theory 31:2 (2025): 166-188.

The Socialization Costs and Benefits of Work, The Journal of Ethics 29:5 (2025): 891-907.

The Demos of the Democratic Firm (w/ P. Magaña), Politics, Philosophy & Economics 23:4 (2024): 346-367.

Intergenerational Justice and Institutions for the Long Term, in K. Goetz, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Time and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 

Self-Employment and Independence, in J. Jonker and G. Rozeboom, eds. Working as Equals (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).

Little Republics: Authority and the Political Nature of the Firm, Philosophy & Public Affairs 50:1 (2022): 90-120. 

Filosofía del trabajo y las relaciones laborales, Enciclopedia de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica 2022.

The Ballot and the Wallet: Self-Respect and the Fair Value of Political Liberties (w/ J. Queralt), European Journal of Philosophy 29:2 (2021): 410-424. 

No Masters Above: Testing Five Arguments for Self-Employment (w/ J. Queralt), in K. Breen & J. P. Deranty, eds. Whither Work? The Politics and Ethics of Contemporary Work (London: Routledge, 2021). 

Ownership and Control Rights in Democratic Firms: A Republican Approach, Review of Social Economy 78:3 (2020): 411-430. 

Firm Authority and Workplace Democracy: A Reply to Jacob and Neuhäuser, Ethical Theory & Moral Practice 22:4 (2019): 679-684. 

Enfranchising the Future: Climate Justice and the Representation of Future Generations (w/ F. Rey), WIREs Climate Change 10:5 (2019): 1-12. 

Dos principios retrospectivos de justicia climática, Isegoría 61 (2019): 621-640.

Review of Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government, Ethics 128:3 (2018): 642-646. 

Political Liberties and Social Equality (w/ J. Queralt), Law & Philosophy 37:6 (2018): 613-638. 

Democratic Legitimacy and the Paradox of Persisting Opposition, Journal of Applied Philosophy 34:1 (2017), 130-146. 

Legitimate Intergenerational Constitutionalism, Intergenerational Justice Review 9:2 (2016): 40-48. 

Constitutionalizing Intergenerational Provisions, in Institutions for Future Generations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). 

Designing Institutions for Future Generations (w/ A. Gosseries), in Institutions for Future Generations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). 

Instituciones intergeneracionales y cortoplacismo político, Revista española de ciencia política 41 (2016): 67-92. 

The Republican Case for Workplace Democracy, Social Theory & Practice 40:2 (2014): 232-254. 

Participation, Deliberation, and Constitutional Rigidity, Ratio Juris 27:4 (2014): 521-527.

Firms, States, and Democracy, Law, Ethics, and Philosophy 2 (2014): 32-57. 

An Account of the Democratic Staus of Constitutional Rights, Res Publica 19 (2013): 241-256. 

Depoliticising the Polls: Voting Abstention and Moral Disagreement, Politics 32:1 (2012): 46-51. 

Filosofia política (w/ M. Thaler and J. Rosas), P. Galvao, ed. A filosofia por disciplinas (Lisboa: Almedina, 2012). 

Democratizar la empresa: Un análisis desde la filosofía política, Revista de estudios políticos 148 (2010): 45-69. 

¿Cabe esperar que la democracia competitiva satisfaga las preferencias de los ciudadanos?, Revista internacional de filosofía política 34 (2009): 33-49. 

Teaching

Filosofía Política 1, BA Philosophy, UB, 2016-25.

Trabajo de fin de grado, BA Philosophy, UB, 2014-16 & 2017-21.

Human Rights: History and Theory (2 grupos), MA Citizenship and Human Rights, UB, 2015-21. 

Historia de los Sistemas Sociales y Políticos (2 grupos), BA Philosophy, UB, 2014-17.

Problemas Filosóficos 2, UB, BA Philosophy, UB, 2014-15. 

Law, Justice & Legitimacy, "Study Abroad" Program, UPF, 2013-14. 

Democracy & Political Liberalism: Theoretical and Institutional Features, MA Current Democracies, UPF, 2012-13.

Ph.D. students

Andrés Cano, dissertation on labor automation (UPF). 

José Gusmao, dissertation on intergenerational justice (Nova Lisboa, advised w/ A. Campos and JL Martí). 

Alexandre Carvalho, dissertation on labor domination and exploitation (U. Minho, advised w/ R. Merrill). 

Xan Fernando, dissertation on intergenerational domination (UPF, advised w/ JL Martí). 

Chris Zhang, dissertation on self-employment (UPF, advised w/ J. Queralt), defended in 2026. 

Adrián Herranz, dissertation on work and republicanism (UPF, advised w/ JL Martí), defended in 2023

Pablo Magaña, dissertation on the political turn in animal ethics (UPF, advised w/ JL Martí), defended in 2022.

Rubén Marciel, dissertation on democracy and the media (UPF, advised w/ JL Martí), defended in 2021.

Public engagement (selection)

Report of the Committee on Demoracy at Work, expert advisor to the Committee, Spanish Ministry of Labor, 2026. 

Democracy and Future Generations: A Philosophical Minefield, Blog of the APA, 2025.

The Possibilities of Worker Ownership, Harvard Business School conference report, 2025. 

Una herencia universal para fomentar la autonomía de los jóvenes, roundtable at Palau Macaya, 2025 (blogpost at Piedras de Papel).

Who Should Vote at Work?, Open Philosophy, 2024.

Shaping Tomorrow Today: Advocate for Future Generations, edited booklet of the Brussels Future Generations Conference, 2024.

Sustainable by Design: Industrial Policy for Long-Term Competitiveness in the EU, contributed white paper, 2023.

Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations, advisor to the Drafting Group, 2023.

Vindicación de la filosofía (interview), Pianista en un Burdel, 2021.

El dilema de anticiparse a la Covid-19, El País, 2020. 

L'emergència del futur: Qui representa els qui encara no han nascut?, Bienal de Pensament, 2020.

Paternalismo antidemocrático, Revista de libros, 2018. 

La democràcia protegirà les generacions futures?, Diàlegs de Pedralbes, 2017.

El Brest-Litovsk catalán (w/ J. Queralt), Eldiario.es, 2017. 

Interview on Institutions for Future Generations, Filosofipods, 2017. 

Environmental Rights by Constitutional Means, Global Policy journal, 2016. 

¿Quién paga la factura climática?, El País, 2016.