Nethanel Lipshitz is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on egalitarian moral and political philosophy, with particular emphasis on basic equality—the view that all human beings (or all persons) are equal in moral status. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, and his BA in Psychology and the Amirim Honors Program in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has held postdoctoral fellowships as a Hecht–Levi Fellow at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, a Law and Philosophy Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, an Edmond J. Safra Fellow at the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, and a postdoctoral fellow at Bar-Ilan.