Olga Lenczewska

I am a PhD student at the Philosophy Department at Stanford University and a research fellow at the Stanford Basic Income Lab. Additionally, I am pursuing a PhD minor in Political Science. I obtained my undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Italian Literature at the University of Oxford. ​I am currently writing my thesis on "Pluralism and Public Reason in Kant and Rawls" under the supervision of Michael Friedman, Allen Wood, and Juliana Bidadanure. As my thesis suggests, my primary research interests are Kant (ranging from his account of self-knowledge to his socio-political philosophy) and contemporary political theory (particularly Rawls's theory of justice and the universal basic income policy proposal). My teaching interests include history of modern philosophy, socio-political philosophy, normative and applied ethics, and philosophy of literature. In the past, I have worked as a research assistant for the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies at the National Italian Research Council, with whom I have recently co-published Claiming Rights in Europe. Emerging Challenges and Political Agents (Routledge, 2018).