• University of Helsinki
    Department of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)
    Regular Faculty
  •  120
    Climate Change, No‐Harm Principle, and Moral Responsibility of Individual Emitters
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 35 (4): 737-758. 2016.
    The article defends the no-harm principle as an intuitively plausible and a common-sense way to justify individual emitters’ duties to take more radical steps in the fight against climate change. The appearance of climate change as requiring large-scale collective action should not lead us astray with respect to the fundamental moral nature of the problem: individual emitters who knowingly sustain and foster the carbon intensive ways of acting also bear personal moral responsibility for the fore…Read more
  •  42
    Activities protesting against major polluters who cause climate change may cause damage to private property in the process. This paper investigates the case for a more international general basis of moral justification for such protests. Specific reference is made to the Kingsnorth case, which involved a protest by Greenpeace against coal-powered electricity generation in the UK. An appeal is made to Rawlsian fairness arguments, traditionally employed to support the obligation of citizens to the…Read more
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    Towards A Multispecies Population Ethics
    Environmental Ethics 44 (4): 347-366. 2022.
    Current ecological threats, such as the sixth mass extinction or climate change, highlight the need to evaluate the moral implications of changing populations, both human and non-human. The paper sketches a non-anthropocentric and multispecies sufficientarian account of population ethics. After discussing several other options for multispecies population ethics, the paper proposes a two-level account of multispecies sufficientarianism, according to which the value of populations depend on two ki…Read more
  •  5
    Towards A Multispecies Population Ethics
    Environmental Ethics 44 (4): 347-366. 2022.
    Current ecological threats, such as the sixth mass extinction or climate change, highlight the need to evaluate the moral implications of changing populations, both human and non-human. The paper sketches a non-anthropocentric and multispecies sufficientarian account of population ethics. After discussing several other options for multispecies population ethics, the paper proposes a two-level account of multispecies sufficientarianism, according to which the value of populations depend on two ki…Read more
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    Pandemian torjunta ja kansalaisten perusoikeudet
    Ajatus 77 (1): 261-290. 2020.
    Pandemian torjunta ja kansalaisten perusoikeudet.