Aksel Braanen Sterri

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard’s government department and OsloMet. I spent 2021-2022 at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

My research interests are at the intersection of ethics and economics. The focus of my post-doctoral work (funded by the Norwegian Research Council) 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.

Selected work:

• Ethical solutions to the problem of organ shortage, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics w/ Sadie Regmi and John Harris
• The Ethics of Sex Robots, The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics w/ Brian Earp.
• The Ethics of Emergencies, Philosophical Studies w/ Ole Martin Moen
• Why States Should Buy Kidneys, Journal of Applied Philosophy
• Prize, not price: reframing rewards for kidney donors, Journal of Medical Ethics
• 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
• The insurance account of pandemic obligations
• Vaccination, risk, and the principle of beneficence
• Animal welfare commodification: a defense
• Health priority, the All-Inclusive View, and discrimination, w/ Albert Didriksen
• The (economic) value of animal lives, w/ Rasmus B Holmen

Email: akselbst (at) gmail.com 
Twitter: @AkselSterri
Phone: +44 7522137144
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