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The Justification of World Statehood: Some Methodological ConcernsCooperation and Conflict. forthcoming.
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326The Democratization of Global AI Governance and the Role of Tech CompaniesNature Machine Intelligence. 2010.
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22The Problem of Political Normativity Understood as Functional NormativityJournal of Philosophical Research. 2023.In recent years, some political realists have argued that there is a “distinctively political normativity” which should be used when construing and justifying political theories. Among realists focusing on a distinctively political normativity, one can identify two approaches. On the “moral view,” it is explicitly acknowledged that moral norms have a role to play in political normativity. On the “non-moral view,” distinctively political normativity is understood in terms of a non-moral kind of p…Read more
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The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Next Steps for Empirical and Normative ResearchInternational Studies Review. forthcoming.
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201On the Normative Importance of the Distinction Between ‘Governance of AI’ and ‘Governance by AI’Global Policy 14. 2023.
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297Does Normative Behaviourism Offer an Alternative Methodology in Political Theory?Political Studies Review (3): 454-461. 2023.Does Normative Behaviourism Offer an Alternative Methodology in Political Theory?
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26What is distinctive of political normativity? From domain view to role viewPhilosophy and Social Criticism 49 (3): 289-308. 2023.In the last couple of years, increased attention has been directed at the question of whether there is such a thing as a distinctively political normativity. With few exceptions, this question has so far only been explored by political realists. However, the discussion about a distinctively political normativity raises methodological and meta-theoretical questions of general importance for political theory. Although the terminology varies, it is a widely distributed phenomenon within political t…Read more
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18The Problem of Political Normativity Understood as Functional NormativityJournal of Philosophical Research. 2023.The Problem of Political Normativity Understood as Functional Normativity.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global GovernancePolitical Studies 2 421-441. 2024.Although the concept of “AI governance” is frequently used in the debate, it is still rather undertheorized. Often it seems to refer to the mechanisms and structures needed to avoid “bad” outcomes and achieve “good” outcomes with regard to the ethical problems artificial intelligence is thought to actualize. In this article we argue that, although this outcome-focused view captures one important aspect of “good governance,” its emphasis on effects runs the risk of overlooking important procedura…Read more
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1122What is Distinctive of Political Normativity? From Domain View to Role ViewPhilosophy and Social Criticism. forthcoming.
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1183On the Relationship between Global Justice and Global Democracy: A Three-Layered ViewEthics and International Affairs 36 (3): 321-331. 2022.How should we understand the relationship between global justice and global democracy? One popular view is captured by the aphorism “No global justice without global democracy.” According to Dryzek and Tanasoca's reading of this aphorism, a particular form of deliberative global democracy is seen as the way to specify and justify what global justice is and requires in various contexts. Taking its point of departure in a criticism of this proposal, this essay analyzes how to best understand the r…Read more
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57Distinctively political normativity in political theoryPhilosophy Compass 17 (6). 2022.Philosophy Compass, Volume 17, Issue 6, June 2022.
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40Distinctively political normativity in political theoryPhilosophy Compass 17 (6). 2022.Philosophy Compass, Volume 17, Issue 6, June 2022.
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116The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Some Normative ConcernsMoral Philosophy and Politics 9 (2): 267-291. 2022.The creation of increasingly complex artificial intelligence (AI) systems raises urgent questions about their ethical and social impact on society. Since this impact ultimately depends on political decisions about normative issues, political philosophers can make valuable contributions by addressing such questions. Currently, AI development and application are to a large extent regulated through non-binding ethics guidelines penned by transnational entities. Assuming that the global governance o…Read more
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55The boundary problem of democracy: A function-sensitive viewContemporary Political Theory 21 (2): 240-261. 2022.In response to the democratic boundary problem, two principles have been seen as competitors: the all-affected interests principle and the all-subjected principle. This article claims that these principles are in fact compatible, being justified vis-à-vis different functions, accommodating different values and drawing on different sources of normativity. I call this a ‘function-sensitive’ view. More specifically, I argue that the boundary problem draws attention to the decision functions of demo…Read more
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60Distinctively Political Normativity in Political Realism: Unattractive or RedundantEthical Theory and Moral Practice 25 (3): 433-447. 2021.Political realists’ rejection of the so-called ‘ethics first’ approach of political moralists, has raised concerns about their own source of normativity. Some realists have responded to such concerns by theorizing a distinctively political normativity. According to this view, politics is seen as an autonomous, independent domain with its own evaluative standards. Therefore, it is in this source, rather than in some moral values ‘outside’ of this domain, that normative justification should be sou…Read more
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29Global Democracy and FeasibilityCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (3): 1-21. 2020.While methodological and metatheoretical questions pertaining to feasibility have been intensively discussed in the philosophical literature on feasibility and justice in recent years, these discussions have not permeated the debate on global democracy. The overall aim in this paper is to demonstrate the fruitfulness of importing some of the advancements made in this literature into the debate on global democracy as well as to develop aspects that are relevant for explaining the role of feasibil…Read more
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Critical Dialogue: On Goodhart’s Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World (review)Perspectives on Politics 17. forthcoming.
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58Does Global Democracy Require a World State?Philosophical Papers 48 (1): 123-153. 2019.The question of whether global democracy requires a world state has with few exceptions been answered with an unequivocal ‘No’. A world state, it is typically argued, is neither feasible nor desirable. Instead, different forms of global governance arrangements have been suggested, involving non-hierarchical and multilayered models with dispersed authority. The overall aim of this paper is to addresses the question of whether global democracy requires a world state, adopting a so-called ‘function…Read more
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62A World of Possibilities: The Place of Feasibility in Political TheoryRes Publica 26 1-23. 2020.Although the discussion about feasibility in political theory is still in its infancy, some important progress has been made in the last years to advance our understanding. In this paper, we intend to make a contribution to this growing literature by investigating the proper place of feasibility considerations in political theory. A motivating force behind this study is a suspicion that many presumptions made about feasibility in several current debates—such as that between practice-independence…Read more
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The Democratization of Global Governance through Civil Society Actors and the Challenge from Political EqualityCritical Sociology 45. 2019.
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Representation, Equality, and Inclusion in Deliberative Systems: Desiderata for a Good AccountIn Anthoula Malkopoulou & Lisa Hill (eds.), Equality and Representation: New Perspectives in Democratic Theory, Routledge. 2018.
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Pragmatism and Epistemic DemocracyIn Miranda Fricker, Peter Graham, David Henderson & Nikolaj Jang Pedersen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology, Routledge. 2019.
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The Ethical Limits of Global DemocracyIn C. Brown and R. Eckersley (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory. 2018.
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24What not to expect from the pragmatic turn in political theoryEuropean Journal of Political Theory 14 (2): 121-140. 2015.The central ideas coming out of the so-called pragmatic turn in philosophy have set in motion what may be described as a pragmatic turn in normative political theory. It has become commonplace among political theorists to draw on theories of language and meaning in theorising democracy, pluralism, justice, etc. The aim of this paper is to explore attempts by political theorists to use theories of language and meaning for such normative purposes. Focusing on Wittgenstein's account, it is argued t…Read more
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24The Interdependence of Risk and Moral TheoryEthical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (2): 207-216. 2018.
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Stockholm UniversityProfessor
Stockholm, Sweden
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |