Espen Dyrnes Stabell
Espen Dyrnes Stabell
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty of HumanitiesBackground and activities
I do research in ethics and practical/applied philosophy. My interests include:
- Environmental ethics
- Decisions under uncertainty
- Metaethics and methodology
I am involved in interdisciplinary research projects on marine minerals (deep-sea mining) as well as artificial intelligence. I am co-editor of Etikk i Praksis – Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics.
Current research project
Ethical Aspects of Deep Sea Mining. Postdoctoral project at NTNU (2019-2021).
Selected publications
- Stabell, Espen Dyrnes. 2021. Review: W. MacAskill, K. Bykvist, and T. Ord: Moral Uncertainty. Journal of Applied Philosophy.
- Stabell, Espen Dyrnes. 2021. Arguments from Need in Natural Resource Debates. Ethics, Policy & Environment.
- Stabell, Espen Dyrnes. 2021. Hard Environmental Choices: Comparability, Justification, and the Argument from Moral Identity. Environmental Values. Volum 30(1) s. 111-130.
- Stabell, Espen Dyrnes. 2019. Existence Value, Preference Satisfaction, and the Ethics of Species Extinction. Environmental Ethics vol. 41(2) pp. 165-180.
- Stabell, Espen Dyrnes; Steel, Daniel. 2018. Precaution and Fairness: A Framework for Distributing Costs of Protection from Environmental Risks. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics; Volume 31.(1) s. 55-71 (2018).
- Stabell, Espen Dyrnes. 2017. Constraints on the Precautionary Principle and the Problem of Uncertainty. American Journal of Bioethics. Volume 17.(3) s. 56-57 (2017).
Phd thesis
Stabell, Espen Dyrnes. 2019. Deep Sea Uncertainty: Studies in Environmental Ethics and Decision-Making. Trondheim: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Selected conference contributions
- "An algorithm for hard choices?". Value incommensurability workshop. University of Lund, Sweden. Upcoming in June 2021.
- "Why environmental philosophers should be 'buck-passers' about value". American Philosophical Association 2021 Eastern Division Meeting. 15.01.2021.
- "Existence value and preferentism". The Annual Stockholm Region Workshop on Economics and Philosophy. Instutute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden. 05.09.2019.
- "Hard environmental choices". Practical Philosophy Group Annual Workshop. University of Oslo. 11.10.2018.
- "Incomparability and the case for problem-solving ethics". Methods in Applied Ethics. NTNU. 19.04.2018.
- "Precaution and fairness". Practical Philosophy Group Annual Workshop. University of Oslo. 23.11.2017.
- "Risk and evaluative uncertainty". IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology. Vancouver, Canada. 14.05.2016.
Teaching
BMET4000 – Philosophy of Science and Ethics
Visiting researcher
- Northeastern University (USA). Fulbright Fellowship. Delayed due to Covid-19.
- University of British Columbia (Canada). March-May 2017.
Membership
- International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE)
- American Philosophical Association (APA) – International member
- Society for Applied Philosophy (SAP)
Complete list of works: Current Research Information SysTem In Norway (Cristin)