Martijn Boot

Martijn Boot is an Assistant Professor at University College Groningen (UCG), part of the University of Groningen. He holds academic roles as Academic Director for PPE, IRIL, and IBE programs, and serves on the Examination Appeals Board (CBE). His primary research interests include moral and political philosophy, global justice, value pluralism, and incommensurability. Boot earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford (Balliol College), MSc from the London School of Economics, and BA/MA from Utrecht University.

His work explores conflicts of values in justice, ethical decision-making, and the limitations of rational weighing in incommensurable cases. Notable publications include his 2017 monograph on incommensurability and its implications for ethics and justice. Boot has held academic positions at Waseda University and Erasmus University Rotterdam, and secured grants like the Japanese KAKENHI Research Grant and a Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research grant with Ingrid Robeyns.

Boot’s research emphasizes the indeterminacy of value conflicts and the ethical deficits arising from such situations. His teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate levels, focusing on political theory and ethics.