MEMBERS
Attila TanyiProfessor, Research group leader (Ethics Research Group) (Group leader)
Attila Tanyi – Professor, Research group leader (Ethics Research Group)
Research interests:
Political philosophy; Moral philosophy; Ethics; Philosophy of religion; Philosophy of law; Philosophy of action
Contact:
Position: Professor, Research group leader (Ethics Research Group)
E-mail: attila.g.tanyi@uit.no
Work phone: +4777644378
Fredrik NysethAssociate Professor (Group leader)
Fredrik Nyseth – Associate Professor
Contact:
Position: Associate Professor
E-mail: fredrik.nyseth@uit.no
Work phone: +4777645839
Roe FremstedalProfessor
Maria DanielsenDoctoral Research Fellow
Maria Danielsen – Doctoral Research Fellow
Research interests:
Theory of emotions, aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, phenomenology, artificial intelligence.
Contact:
Position: Doctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: maria.danielsen@uit.no
Work phone: +4777625140
Melina DuarteAssociate Professor
Melina Duarte – Associate Professor
Contact:
Position: Associate Professor
E-mail: melina.duarte@uit.no
Work phone: +4777644329
Beatrix HimmelmannProfessor
Beatrix Himmelmann – Professor
Research interests:
Ethics, Philosophical Anthropology, Metaphysics, Kant, Nietzsche
Contact:
Position: Professor
E-mail: beatrix.himmelmann@uit.no
Work phone: +4777623328
Joanna Aleksandra KreftResearch assistant
Joanna Aleksandra Kreft – Research assistant
Contact:
Position: Research assistant
E-mail: joanna.a.kreft@uit.no
Ivar Russøy LabuktAssociate Professor
Ivar Russøy Labukt – Associate Professor
Research interests:
Ethics, metaethics, personal identity.
Contact:
Position: Associate Professor
E-mail: ivar.r.labukt@uit.no
Work phone: +4777646189
Michael Paul MorreauProfessor
Michael Paul Morreau – Professor
Research interests:
Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology
Contact:
Position: Professor
E-mail: michael.morreau@uit.no
Work phone: +4777645230
Fredrik NilsenAssistant professor
Fredrik Nilsen – Assistant professor
Research interests:
- History of philosophy ( in particular the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Early Modernity, the Enlightenment; Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquino, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant).
- The contributions of women thinkers to the history of philosophy (critique of canon) (in particular Elizabeth of Bohemia, Sophie of Hanover, Sophie Charlotte of Preussia, Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Catharine Trotter Cockburn).
- The contributions of non-western thinkers to the history of philosophy (critique of canon) (in particular African philosophy; Zera-Yaqob, Welde Hiywet, Wilhelm Anton Amo).
- The history of ethics (Aristotle, Kant, Bentham, Mill).
- Normative ethics (virtue ethics, duty ethics, utilitarianism).
- Metaethics (in particular the questions on free will and moral evil; Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Augustine, Aquino, Ockham, Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant).
- Philosophy of antiquity (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, epicurianism, stoicism).
- Metaphysics (in particular the question of free will and the mind-body problem; Platon, Aristotle, Descartes, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Spinoza, Leibniz, Sophie of Hanover, Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish, Kant).
- The history of political philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquino, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant).
- The history of hermeneutics (in particular the German tradition; Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Gadamer).
Contact:
Position: Assistant professor
E-mail: fredrik.nilsen@uit.no
Work phone: +4777623229
Private phone: 91757958
Vegard StensenLecturer
Vegard Stensen – Lecturer
Research interests:
I work on the relationship between social justice, self-respect and self-esteem, particularly within John Rawls and Axel Honneth's frameworks.
Contact:
Position: Lecturer
E-mail: vegard.stensen@uit.no
