Visiting Professor, Political Science, Ashoka University
PhD, Central European University
Miklos Zala is a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Ashoka University in Sonipat, India, and a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination (CEPDISC) at Aarhus University, Denmark. He earned his PhD in Political Theory from Central European University, Budapest. His research focuses on political philosophy and applied ethics, with a particular focus on the philosophy of disability. His current work seeks to advance the human variation model of disability and clarify social responsibility for disability disadvantage.
2026: ‘The Human Variation Model of Disability: A Defense.’ The Journal of Philosophy of Disability. Online first, available at: https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase26?openform&fp=jpd&id=jpd_2026_0999_7_27_36
2026: ‘Structural Discrimination Through Ignorance: Epistemic Injustice (Social) Norms and Disability,’ Synthese, 207 (3):108 (co-authored with Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre; cited in the ‘Disability and Justice’ entry on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-026-05517-w
2025: ‘Jessica Begon: Disability Through the Lens of Justice,’ Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, forthcoming. Available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10677-025-10519-7
2022: ‘Justice and the EU: Productive or Relational Reciprocity?’, Res Publica, 28(4): 635-652.
2019: ‘Secularism in Political Philosophy’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1388
2019: ‘Laborde’s Liberalism’s Religion: The Problem of Religious Exemptions,’ Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 19 (1) (2019): 55-69.
2018: ‘The Devout and The Disabled: Religious and Cultural Accommodation as Human Variation’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 35 (4) (November 2018): 809-24.
Disability and Justice, Structural Injustice, Applied Political Philosophy