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Assistant Professor Institute of philosophy and first semester studies emil.andersson@uit.no Tromsø

Emil Andersson

Job description

I am a political philosopher in the analytic tradition, working mainly on issues related to the classical problems of distributive justice and political legitimacy. My current research is primarily devoted to exploring previously neglected issues at the intersection of liberal legitimacy and intergenerational ethics. For more, see my personal webpage.

Research interests

Political legitimacy; public justification; public reason; future generations; justice; Rawlsian contractualism

Publications (Peer-Reviewed)

  • “Rawls on Justice between Generations” (forthcoming) The Oxford Handbook on the Philosophy of John Rawls, eds. Christie Hartley, Blain Neufeld and Lori Watson.
  • “On Scepticism about Intergenerational Legitimacy” (online first) Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
  • “Stability and the Question of to Whom Justification is Owed” (online first) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
  • “Liberal Legitimacy and Future Citizens” (2025) Philosophical Studies, Vol. 182, No. 5-6: 1067-1090.
  • “What Can Historicising Rawls Achieve?” (2024) Analyse & Kritik, Vol. 46, No. 2: 305-318. Co-authored with Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis.
  • “Autonomy, Community, and the Justification of Public Reason” (2023) Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 53, No. 4: 336-350.
  • “Freedom, Equality, and Justifiability to All: Reinterpreting Liberal Legitimacy” (2022) The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 26, No. 4: 591-612.
  • “Distributive Justice, Social Cooperation, and the Basis of Equality” (2022) Theoria, Vol. 88, No. 6: 1180-1195.
  • “The Repugnant Conclusion: An Overview” (2021) The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics, ed. Stephen M. Gardiner. Co-authored with Gustaf Arrhenius.
  • “Constructivist Contractualism and Future Generations” (2021) The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics, ed. Stephen M. Gardiner. Co-authored with Gustaf Arrhenius.
  • “Political Liberalism and the Interests of Children: A Reply to Timothy Michael Fowler” (2011) Res Publica, Vol. 17, No. 3: 291-296.

Publications (Other)

  • Book Review: “Finneron-Burns, Elizabeth. What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics” (2025) Ethics, Vol. 135, No. 3: 604-608.
  • “Några kritiska kommentarer på Torbjörn Tännsjös Från despoti till demokrati” (2025) Filosofisk tidskrift, Vol. 46, No. 1: 9-13.
  • Book Review: “Actualizing Human Rights: Global Inequality, Future People, and Motivation by Jos Philips” (2022) Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 40, No. 1: 261-263.
  • “Likvärdighet som filosofiskt problem” (2022) in Demokratin som bildningsväg (ed. Kenneth Abrahamsson, Per-Ola Jansson, and Torvald Åkesson).
  • “A Theory of Justice – en radikal vision om det fullständigt rättvisa samhället” (2021) Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Vol. 25, No. 2-3: 4-28.
  • Book Review: “Leva fritt och leva väl av Per Bauhn” (2021) Filosofisk tidskrift, No. 3: 44-52.
  • Book Review: “Om falsk och äkta liberalism av Lena Andersson” (2019) Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Vol. 23, No. 2: 49-56.
  • Book review: “The State of Democratic Theory av Ian Shapiro” (2010) Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Vol. 14, No. 3: 55-63.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2905-3424