Aksel Braanen Sterri

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at Oslo Metropolitan University, a hosted researcher at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and a research director at Langsikt – tankesmien for langsiktig politikk (Centre for Long Term Policy).

My research interests are at the intersection of ethics and economics. The focus of my post-doctoral work (funded by the Research Council of Norway) is on ethical aspects of contagion, both in relation to infectious and non-communicable diseases. The project builds on my Ph.D. thesis in philosophy, where I examine the ethics of delicate market transactions. I also work on issues related to the ethics of AI and the appropriate way to value animals.

Here’s my CV.

Selected work:

• The Ethics of Emergencies, Philosophical Studies w/ Ole Martin Moen
• Why States Should Buy Kidneys, Journal of Applied Philosophy
• The Ethics of Sex Robots, The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics w/ Brian Earp.
• What’s Your Price? Three Cheers for Data Markets, in AI Morality
• Ending Animal Cruelty Through Markets, in Routledge Handbook of Commodification
• Prize, not price: reframing rewards for kidney donors, Journal of Medical Ethics
• Ethical solutions to the problem of organ shortage, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics w/ Sadie Regmi and John Harris
• Racial Justice Requires Drug Policy Overhaul, American Journal of Bioethics w/ Brian Earp, John Lewis, Carl Hart et al.
• Sex selection in India: Why a ban is not justified, Developing World Bioethics
• Pedophilia and Computer-Generated Child Pornography, The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy w/ Ole Martin Moen

Work under review or in progress:

• Global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation, w/ Peder Skjelbred
• Neither Tyrant, nor Slave: A Novel Argument Against AGI, w/ Peder Skjelbred
• The AI Transition Problem
• Corporal Punishment, The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment w/ Ole Martin Moen
• War, Opportunity Costs, and Emergencies, with Fredrik Hjorthen
• The insurance account of pandemic obligations
• Vaccination, Risk, and Beneficence
• Health Priority, Discrimination, and the All-Inclusive View, w/ Albert Didriksen
• Tax Animal Suffering, w/ Asher Soryl
• The (economic) value of animal lives, w/ Rasmus B Holmen

Email: akselbst (at) gmail.com 
Twitter: @AkselSterri
Phone: +47 98039096