I am working on a postdoctoral project about scarce goods for which it is hard or impossible to increase supply, such as pristine nature, urban housing, attractive jobs and high status (i.e. what Fred Hirsch called 'positional goods'), and problems concerning the conflicts of interest over who gets access to such goods.

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 visiting positions at the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics at UCLouvain, and at Nuffield College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University.

Spring 2026

FIL249 Political Philosophy

FIL349 Research Theme in Political Philosophy

Office hours: By appointment, just send me an email, and we'll find a time.

Autumn 2025

SV-exphil

Autumn 2024

SV-Exphil

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)

Journal articles (peer reviewed):

The Mirage of Abundance: Why AI Cannot End Scarcity and Implications for AI Risk
Journal of Social Philosophy, online first. 2026

G.A. Cohen’s Principle of Labour Justice: Equality of Work and Income Protects Occupational Interests and Avoids the Freedom Objection OA (Open access)
Res Publica, online first. 2026 

What is a positional good? Recovering Hirsch's insights OA
Economics & Philosophy, 42(1), 111-132. 2026 

Intuisjoner i politisk teori: problemer og alternativer [Intuitions in political theory: problems and alternatives] OA
Politica, 58(1-2), 29-52. 2026 

Relying on Intuitions in Moral and Political Philosophy: A Practice with No Support OA
The Journal of Ethics, 29(5), 863-890. 2025 

What is work? Engineering a working definition OA
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, online first. 2025 

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

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

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

Encyclopedia article (peer reviewed):

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

Open access publications are marked with OA. If you should be interested in a non-open access publication but do not have access to it, please send me an e-mail, I may have the right to share it upon request.