Doctoral projects

Emma Jakobsson

This project analyses various interpretations of constructivism and their relation to normative ethics and meta-ethics. One form of Kantian constructivism, one of Humean constructivism, and one ethical theory based on social constructivism are compared with the aim of further developing a constructivist theory within ethics.

Xin Mao

The project Transnational Human Rights Obligations: its agency, justification and distribution aims to offer a new understanding of transnational human rights obligations. Social production as understood within Marxist theory is related to human rights and global capitalism.

Ute Steyer

Doubt, uncertainty, and ambiguity in rabbinic literature: Law meets messy human reality. This project addresses the question of what significance rabbinic sources attach to the ambivalence of Jewish law. Perspectives from the rabbinic sources are related to contemporary philosophical discussions on law and morality.

Amanda Lindestreng

Strength of Rights. This project examines conflicts between human rights, with a particular emphasis on freedom of religion, a right that has seldom been employed by leading political ethicists in discussions of the prioritisation and justification of rights. The project addresses the strength of different rights claims and how these can be understood and justified within normative theories.