simply in virtue of their humanity. This contrasts with a more recent view that characterizes human rights in terms of some political role(s), such as being triggers for international intervention or benchmarks of internal legitimacy. According to Tasioulas, human rights have a foundation both in a plurality of human interests and in equal human dignity. Among other writings in this area, Tasioulas is the author of two reports on minimum core obligations, and their bearing on the human right to health, for the World Bank. He has written on a range of other topics including moral relativism, games and play, the ethics of robots and Artificial Intelligence, and the philosophy of international law. His co-edited volume, The Philosophy of International Law (OUP, 2010), is a central text in the field. Tasioulas was a vocal supporter of Brexit. Selected works ‘In Defence of Relative Normativity: Communitarian Values and the Nicaragua Case’, (1996) 16 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, pp. 85–128. ‘Relativism, Realism and Reflection’, (1998) 41 Inquiry, pp .377–410. 'Mercy', (2003) CIII Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, pp. 101–132. 'Punishment and Repentance', Philosophy 81 (2006), pp. 279–322. 'Games and the Good', Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXX (2006), pp. 237–264 'The Moral Reality of Human Rights', in T. Pogge (ed.), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? (OUP, 2007), pp. 75–101. S. Besson and J. Tasioulas (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law (OUP, 2010) ‘Taking Rights out of Human Rights’, Ethics 120 (July 2010), pp. 647–678. 'Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights', Current Legal Problems 65 (2012), pp. 1–30. 'Human Rights, Legitimacy, and International Law', American Journal of Jurisprudence 58 (2013), pp. 1–25. 'Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now', World Bank (2017). 'The Minimum Core of the Human Right to Health', World Bank (2017). 'First Steps Towards an Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence' Journal of Practical Ethics 7 (2019), pp. 61–95. References External links 'Is Dignity the Foundation of Human Rights', 'Or Emet Lecture, 10 March 2011 video 'Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights', Inaugural Lecture, University College London, 19 January 2012 video 'Human Rights', Philosophy Bites Interview, 12 October 2013 podcast 'Humanity's Debate', Neos Kosmos, 2 December 2013, profile article 'Professor John Tasioulas joins King's', 8 July 2014 'Political Philosophy in the World: A Right to be Angry', The Philosopher's Zone, 1 May 2016 'Big Questions: Philosopher John Tasioulas