Research projects
Questions I am more specifically interested in and am currently working on:
Moral considerability in nature; to what extent it is plausible to consider obligations we owe to nonhumans in a political framework; connections between animal and environmental ethics. My master thesis was an investigation of rewilding projects from the prism of animal ethics, and in particular Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's animal citizenship framework. I argue that, by shifting from an individual to a relational and explicitly political perspective, this framework allows us to better understand the nature of the obligations humans have towards nonhuman animals, in particular in the context of certain types of environmental conservation projects known as rewilding.
The epistemic conditions of responsibility. This topic is one I am currently exploring for a paper on news avoidance attitudes, which I recently presented at a congress in Gothenburg. In it, I explore a response to two recent papers by, respectively, Brookes Brown (2023) and Amy Berg (2023) which argue for an at least imperfect duty to follow the news. While remaining agnostic about the moral status of news avoidance, I explore the idea that, in at least some cases, news avoidance attitudes might be a response seeking to protect individual and collective agency in toxic news ecosystems.
The ethics of AI. I have followed two courses on the philosophy and ethics of AI, the first at Linköping University and the second at Umeå University. Two themes I am exploring in particular is the intersection between AI and creativity and whether generative AI threatens, enhances, or how it otherwise relates to, (human) creativity; and whether we ought to pause AI developments.
Additionally, I have an interest in Buddhist ethics which I have pursued independently. I am in working on a paper on the relational and philosophical roles of tea in the teachings of the Zen master Thich Nhat Hahn, which I have presented during a conference in Finland in September.