Daniel Gamper is a full professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has served as a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli (2012-2019), the University of Aarhus (2013), Beijing Normal University (2019), and the Università di Roma Tor Vergata (2022). He is member of the Ethics Committee for Animal and Human Experimentation at UAB (2011-2023). His research interests in political philosophy include theories of democracy, the role of religion in plural societies, freedom of conscience, and freedom of expression.
He has been the principal investigator (IP) of the projects “Forms of laïcité” (FFI2009-07433) and “Guides for a legal and political interpretation of exemptions and accommodations for religious reasons in the Catalan context” (2015 RELIG 00015).
He has published articles in journals such as Isegoría, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Social Science Information, Daimon, Doxa, Quaderni di Diritto e Politica Ecclesiastica, Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo, and Telos, among others.
He is the author of the books Laicidad europea. Apuntes de filosofía política postsecular (Edicions Bellaterra, 2016), Las mejores palabras. De la libre expresión (48 Premio Anagrama de Ensayo, 2019, translated into italian) and De qué te ríes. Beneficios y estragos de la broma (Herder, 2024).
He has translated works and articles by Nietzsche, Greenberg, Scheler, Croce, Tugendhat, Appiah, Butler, Humboldt, Sloterdijk, Honneth, and Habermas. He has also published interviews with Bauman, Safranski, Gray, Tugendhat, Honneth, Marramao, Han, Vattimo, Bodei, de Ventós, Beck, de Azúa, Calhoun, Rico, Nussbaum, Butler, Walzer, and Appiah.
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