About
I am Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, and Research Fellow and Research Leader at the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm. I am also the PI of a big project on the ethics of coordination and climate change (https://www.su.se/research-school-norms-and-normativity-nono/), and a PI and coordinator of a graduate research school on norms and normativity, which is a collaboration between Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and the University of Gothenburg (https://www.su.se/research-school-norms-and-normativity-nono/).
Before joining the department and institute in Stockholm, I was Tutorial Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and CUF Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University (2001-2013). Before that, I was a lecturer for a year at the Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. I have been a visiting researcher at the University of Toronto, the Australian National University, the University of Queensland, Melbourne University, the University of Cambridge, SCAS Uppsala, and Humboldt University.
Before joining the department and institute in Stockholm, I was Tutorial Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and CUF Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University (2001-2013). Before that, I was a lecturer for a year at the Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. I have been a visiting researcher at the University of Toronto, the Australian National University, the University of Queensland, Melbourne University, the University of Cambridge, SCAS Uppsala, and Humboldt University.
I have quite broad research interests, but most of them could be put under the heading ‘Uncertainty and change of values and norms’. More specifically, my main research concerns questions about our responsibility to future generations (the value of future lives and the non-identity problem), consequence-sensitive morality (time neutrality, normative invariance, and the notions of alternative actions and outcomes), moral and evaluative uncertainty (especially in relation to climate ethics and non-cognitivism), and the nature of value and its relationships to attitudes and wellbeing (in particular, value magnitudes, the fitting attitude analysis of value, and attitude-sensitive wellbeing). I am also interested in the methodology of normative ethics; more specifically, the role modelling and impossibility theorems can play in ethical theorizing. During the pandemic, I got interested in the ethics of policy-making, particularly the question of who should have the mandate to decide on difficult trade-offs between different values, and the role of modelling in political decision-making. Finally, I have a long-lasting interest in the history of moral philosophy: Brentano, Sidgwick, Mill, Moore, Ross, and Broad.
Contact
Stockholm University
Postal address
Stockholm University Department of Philosophy SE - 10691 Stockholm, Sweden Visiting address Department of Philosophy Universitetsvägen 10 D Frescati, Stockholm, Sweden [email protected] |
Institute for Futures Studies
Postal address
Box 591, 101 31 Stockholm Visiting address Holländargatan 13 111 36 Stockholm Phone: 08-402 12 00 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] |