Jens Jørund Tyssedal

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research

I am working on a postdoctoral project about so-called 'positional goods', i.e. scarce goods for which it is hard or impossible to increase supply, such as pristine nature, urban housing, attractive jobs and high status, and problems concerning the distribution of these.

I also do research on distributive justice in general, the philosophy of work and labour justice, and on methods in normative theory.

Before joining the Department of Philosophy at the Univeresity of Bergen I worked at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, from where I hold my PhD. I have also held a visiting position at the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics at UCLouvain.

Teaching

Autumn 2024

SV-Exphil, Seminar groups 1, 8 and 9.

Office hours: by appointment

 

Spring semester 2024

FIL116 Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy (with Jesse Tomalty og Ane Engelstad)

FIL 249 Political Philosophy (with Jesse Tomalty og Ane Engelstad)

FIL349 Research Theme in Political Philosophy (with Jesse Tomalty og Ane Engelstad)

 

Publications

Socialism, with Andreas Albertsen
in Thompson, W.R. (red.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2024)

Good work: The importance of caring about making a social contribution
Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 22(2) (2023), p. 177-196.

Work is Meaningful if There are Good Reasons to do it: A Revisionary Conceptual Analysis of ‘Meaningful Work’
 Journal of Business Ethics, 185 (2023), p. 533-544.

The Value of Time Matters for Temporal Justice
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 24(1) (2021), p. 183-196.