Published work: 

• Transatlantic Relations in a Changing World
  Book chapter written with Marianne Riddervold and Akasemi Newsome, published in The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Relations.

• Radikalt håp på uklart grunnlag? Selektiv, men inspirerende historiefortelling i Krznarics nyeste bok
  Book review of Roman Krznaric's "History for Tomorrow," published in Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift (Norwegian).   

Current working papers

In my dissertation, I focus on moral dilemmas arising from interpersonal aggregation. I aim to determine what governments ought to do when faced with alternative policies, each of which affects different people to varying degrees. 

The papers I currently work on most are: 

• All-Inclusive Healthcare
  A paper written together with Aksel Sterri, arguing that non-health and third-party effects should be taken into consideration on par with the health of the patient when we prioritise scarce resources in healthcare. 

• The convergence argument for interpersonal aggregation
  A paper arguing that, unlike principles of non-aggregation or limited aggregation, aggregative principles can achieve overlapping consensus. Given our current uncertainty about what the best moral theory is, we should agree to base our policies on aggregative principles. 

• Desirable ignorance
  A paper arguing against ex ante contractualism, highlighting its problematic relationship to knowledge. 

• The limited logical space for limited aggregation
  A paper arguing that principles of non-aggregation or limited aggregation have to deny any role of consequences in our morality, and that they, for that reason, are implausible.

• The need to debunk the debunkers
  A paper exploring the method of wide reflective equilibrium and the use of debunking arguments. I argue that debunking arguments have implications beyond how they are usually used.

For many of the papers above, I can provide draft versions if you're interested in reading. 

Other papers in the pipeline

I also have very early drafts on some papers that I hope to work more on later. While I cannot currently provide working papers for these, please get in touch if you want to discuss any of the topics! 

• Rights in the far future
  A paper written with Peder Skjelbred and Aksel Sterri, exploring how classical theories of rights hold up if we consider the far future and the possibility of premature human extinction.

• Aggregation and non-human animals
  Animals' interests matter. It is, in general, hard to know just how much their interests matter when they conflict with human interests. However, it seems especially hard to say anything meaningful about this based on non-aggregative theories. Some solve this issue by promoting "utilitarianism for animals," even when they reject utilitarianism otherwise. This, I believe to lead to further issues for such non-utilitarian conceptions.

• Animal communication and political theory
  All political theories should say something about how we ought to treat non-human animals. Most political theories hold that we should treat them differently from humans. As we speak, significant work is being done in understanding non-human communication. I wonder how insights from this research may affect the premises of the aforementioned political theories.