I work on decision theory, questions about how to evaluate risk, and topics in ethics (such as population ethics and climate ethics). My work on decision theory has lead me to questions about conditionals and some topics in Bayesian epistemology.
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Research
Ethics
"Ocean-based salmon farming: A case study of ‘irreversible damage’”
forthcoming in Environmental Ethics.
"Population Ethics under Risk"
(with Gustaf Arrhenius) forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare.
"Incommensurability, the Sequence Argument, and the Pareto Principle"
(with Gustaf Arrhenius) Philosophical Studies, 181(12): 3395-3411, 2024
"Calibrating Population Ethics"
(with Dean Spears) Economics and Philosophy, 40(3): 673-684, 2024.
"Identified Person ‘Bias’ as Decreasing Marginal Value of Chances"
Noûs 58(2): 536-561, 2024.
"Sveriges klimatansvar"
(In Swedish. English title: “Sweden’s climate duties”) Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi 27(3): 2-17, 2023.
"In Defence of Pigou-Dalton for Chances"
Utilitas 35(4): 292-311, 2023
"Fairness and Risk Attitudes"
(with Richard Bradley) Philosophical Studies 180(10-11): 3179-3204, 2023.
"Why Offsetting is Not Like Shaking a Bag"
(with Mac Willners) Ethics, Policy & Environment 26(1): 144-148, 2023.
"Calibration Dilemmas in the Ethics of Distribution"
(with Jake Nebel) Economics and Philosophy 39(1): 67-98, 2023.
"Should I Offset or Should I Do More Good?"
Ethics, Policy & Environment 25(3): 225-241. 2022.
"What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?"
(with Stéphane Zuber and 27 coauthors), Utilitas 33(4), 379–383, 2021.
"Collective Responses to Covid-19 and Climate Change"
(with Andrea S. Asker), Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (special issue on the philosophy and economics of pandemics), 14(1), 152–166, 2021.
"Additively-Separable and Rank-Discounted Variable-Population Social Welfare Functions"
(with Dean Spears), Economic Letters, 203: 109870, 2021.
"Ambiguity Aversion behind the Veil of Ignorance"
Synthese, 198(7): 6159 - 6182, 2021. Special issue: Norms for Risk, edited by Renee Bolinger and Seth Lazar.
"Fair Chance and Modal Consequentialism"
Economics and Philosophy, 31(3): 371-395, 2015.
Risk and Chance
"Can the Normic de minimis Expected Utility Theory save the de minimis Principle?"
(with Björn Lundgren) forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
"Longtermism and Social Risk-Taking"
in Jacob Barrett, Hilary Greaves, and David Thorstad (eds.) Essays on Longtermism, Oxford University Press, 2025.
"How a Pure Risk of Harm Can Itself Be a Harm"
Analysis, 84(1): 112-116, 2024.
"Planetär ingenjörskonst och katastrofrisker"
(In Swedish. English title: “Geoengineering and catastrophic risk”) Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi 27(1): 6-18, 2023.
"Can a Knowledge Threshold Save the De Minimis Principle?"
(with Björn Lundgren) Journal of Risk and Reliability 236 (6): 1164-1167, 2022.
"Continuity and Catastrophic Risk"
Economics and Philosophy 38(2): 266-274, 2022.
"The Economics and Philosophy of Risk"
in Conrad Heilmann and Julian Reiss (eds.) Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics, 2021.
"Catastrophic Risk"
Philosophy Compass, 15 (11): 1-11, 2020.
"Against the de minimis Principle"
(with Björn Lundgren) Risk Analysis, 40(5): 908-914, 2020.
"On the Limits of the Precautionary Principle"
Risk Analysis, 39(6): 1204-1222, 2019.
"How Valuable are Chances?"
(with Richard Bradley), Philosophy of Science, 82(4): 602-625, 2015.
Decision Theory
"Fairness, ambiguity, and dynamic consistency"
(with Richard Bradley) forthcoming in Theory and Decision.
"A trilemma for the lexical utility model of the precautionary principle"
Philosophical Studies, 181(12): 3271-3287, 2024.
"Climate Change and Decision Theory"
(with Andrea Asker), in Gianfranco Pellegrino and Marcello Di Paola (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change, Springer, 2023.
"The Tragedy of the Risk Averse"
Erkenntnis, 88(1): 351-364, 2023.
"Transformative Experience, Awareness Growth and the Limits of Rational Planning"
(with Katie Steele), Philosophy of Science 89(5), 939-948, 2022.
"Radical Interpretation and Decision Theory"
(with Anandi Hattiangadi) Synthese, 199(3-4): 6473-6494, 2021.
Beyond Uncertainty: Reasoning with Unknown Possibilities
(with Katie Steele), Cambridge University Press, 2021.
"Gambling with Death"
Topoi, 39(2): 271-281, 2020. Special issue: New Trends in Rational Choice Theory, edited by Fabio Paglieri and Cédric Paternotte.
"Is Risk Aversion Irrational?"
Synthese, 197(10): 4425-4437, 2020.
"What is Risk Aversion?"
(with Richard Bradley), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 70(1): 77-102, 2019.
"Counterfactual Desirability"
(with Richard Bradley), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68(2): 485-533, 2017.
Included in Oxford University Press’ “Best of Philosophy 2017”.
"Epistemic Transformation and Rational Choice"
(with Krister Bykvist), Economics and Philosophy, 33(1): 125-138, 2017.
"Desire, Expectation and Invariance"
(with Richard Bradley), Mind, 125(499): 691-725, 2016.
"Decision Theory"
(with Katie Steele), in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, winter 2015 edition.
"Desires, Beliefs and Conditional Desirability"
Synthese, 191(16): 4019-4035, 2014.
Bayesian Epistemology
"Belief Revision for Growing Awareness"
(with Katie Steele) Mind 130(520): 1207–1232, 2021.
"On the Ratio Challenge for Comparativism"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96(2): 380-390, 2018.
"What is 'Real' in Probabilism?"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 95(3): 573-587, 2017.
Conditionals
"Counterfactual Skepticism and Multidimensional Semantics"
Erkenntnis, 83(5): 875-898, 2018.
"Desirability of Conditionals"
Synthese, 193(6): 1967-1981, 2016.
"A Lewisian Trilemma"
Ratio, 27(3): 262-275, 2014.
"Humean Supervenience and Multidimensional Semantics"
Erkenntnis, 79(6): 1391-1406, 2014.