Espen Gamlund

Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/espengamlund/

Title: Associate Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 32 02

Cellphone: +47 924 45 441 SMS

Visiting address: Sydnesplassen 12/13

Room number: 432

My work is primarily in ethics, moral and political philosophy. I am particularly interested in applied ethics. I also do work on Spinoza.

Areas of Specialisation:

Ethics and political philosophy

Environmental ethics

Forgiveness

Spinoza

Areas of Competence:

History of philosophy

Peace and conflict studies

Publications in Cristin

Publications:

2011: "Reconsidering Approaches to Moral Status" (sammen med Kristian S. Ekeli), Ethics, Policy & Environment 14.3: 361-375.

2011: "Introduction to Confronting Environmental Values" (Guest editorial), Ethics, Policy & Environment 14.3: 307-312.

2011: “Forgiveness without Blame”, in C. Fricke (Ed), The Ethics of Forgiveness. Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory.

2011: “Living under the Guidance of Reason: Arne Naess`s interpretation of Spinoza”, Inquiry 54.1: 2-17.

2010: “Supererogatory Forgiveness”, Inquiry 53.6: 540 - 564.

2010: "The Duty to Forgive Repentant Wrongdoers", International Journal of Philosophical Studies 18.5: 651 - 671.

2007: “Who Has Moral Status in the Environment? A Spinozistic Answer”, The Trumpeter vol 23, nr 1: 3-27.

2007: “The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism,” in Matthias Kaiser and Marianne Lien (Eds), Ethics and the Politics of Food. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 123-128.

2006: “Arne Naess`s Humanistic Ethic,” The Trumpeter vol 22, nr 1: 104-117.

Articles in Norwegian

2013: "Etiske perspektiver på dyr og natur", i Ragnhild Sollund, Morten Tønnessen og Guri Larsen (red.) Hvem er villest i landet her? Spartacus Forlag AS.

2012: "Hva er galt med dypøkologien? Noen kommentarer til Arne Næss' Økosofi T", Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift nr. 4: 229-244.

2007: “Klimaendringer, Fattigdom og Etikk”, RØST 1: 27-31.

2005: “Spinoza og Konfliktløsning. Et Frigjøringsperspektiv”, Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift vol 40, nr 1: 38-56.

2004: “Hvem har Moralsk Status i Naturen? Et Spinozistisk Argument” Parabel – tidsskrift for filosofi- og vitenskapsteori vol 7, nr 2: 41-68.

2003: “Kan Spinozas etikk forstås som interpersonlig og holistisk? Agora journal for metafysisk spekulasjon nr 2-3: 149-174.

My teaching:

Examen Philosophicum at the University of Bergen

Moral Philosophy (FIL128/228/328)

Political Theory (FIL116/216/316)

Introductory course to ethics (FIL227)

Tolerance and pluralism

Doctoral course in Ethics at the University of Oslo

Work in Progress

Liberalism, education and extremist illiberal and anti-democratic groups (Article co-authored with Kristian Skagen Ekeli)

Individual Responsibility and the Moral Demands of Climate Change (Article)

Is there a future for deep ecology? (article)