Júlia Pareto

jpareto@iri.upc.edu
Research Fellow, Chair on AI&Democracy (STG-EUI)

Júlia Pareto Boada is a research fellow at the AI&Democracy Chair at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute. She is also a researcher at the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics, CSIC-UPC, where she works on the disciplinary development of technology ethics, one of the most recent fields of contemporary ethics.

She holds a Ph.D. with International Mention in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, with a thesis entitled “Ethics of Technologies: Theoretical-practical coordinates for social robotics,” which was developed within the Human-Centered Robotics program of the MdM Unit of Excellence at the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics, CSIC-UPC. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Philosophy from Pompeu Fabra University and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy with Extraordinary Prize from the University of Barcelona, with an academic stay at Freie Universität Berlin. She has also carried out doctoral research stays at the University of Twente and the Universität Wien.

As a member of the Aporia Research Group, she has collaborated on projects related to research lines on Institutional Ethics, Transparency, and Good Governance, and more recently, on Applied Ethics in technological development in the healthcare and social care fields.

Notable publications:

  • Pareto J., Torras, C. (2024). To each Technology Its Own Ethics? A Reply to Sætra & Danaher (and Their Critics). Philosophy&Technology 37 (107). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00798-w
  • Pareto, J., Coeckelbergh, M. (2024). Social Assistive Robotics: An Ethical and Political Inquiry Through the Lens of Freedom. International Journal of Social Robotics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-024-01161-x
  • Pareto Boada J., Román Maestre B., Torras C. (2022). Ethics for social robotics: A critical analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12555. In TRAITS Workshop Proceedings held in conjunction with Companion of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2022, Pages 1284-1286. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.12555
  • Pareto Boada J., Román Maestre B., Torras C. (2021). The ethical issues of social assistive robotics: A critical literature review. Technology in Society, 67, 101726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101726
  • Pareto Boada, J. (2021). Prolegómenos a una ética para la robótica social. Dilemata, Revista Internacional de Éticas Aplicadas (34), p. 71-87.
  • Pareto Boada J., Román Maestre B. (2020). Reforming public administration: the Codes of Ethics in City Councils. Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics, [en línia], 1 (11), p. 59-85.
  • Pareto Boada, J. (2018). Sobre los límites entre libertad de expresión e igualdad de género en el ámbito laboral: defensa de un criterio objetivo para la legitimación de restricciones a la libertad de expresión. Monográfico. Tendencias en la Filosofía Contemporánea. La Torre del Virrey (24, 2018/2).