Roger Fjellstrom
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Portrait of Roger Fjellström

 

Roger Fjellstrom. Ph D, Docent. Guest researcher in Practical philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University.

Phone: +46 (0) 8-674 79 83 (work), +46-(0)709-16 71 42 (cell phone), and Skype. E-mail: roger.fjellstrom@philosophy.su.se

 

Areas of enterprise

Research in practical philosophy and educational science. Critique and cultural debate. Literary writer and painter.

 

Academic merits

1969, Stockholm University, BA, philosophy as major subject.

1976, Stockholm University, PhD in practical philosophy.

2002, Umeå University, "docent" in practical philosophy.

2005, Umeå University, declared competent for professorship in educational science.

2009, Mid Sweden University, declared competent for professorship in educational science.

 

Recent publications in English

‘Morality of the Light, Morality of the Dark’. In A. Rosenberg, D. Linke & A. Milchman (eds.), Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz. New York: Prometheus Books, 2000. [Pdf-file]

On Victimhood’. SATS - Nordic Journal of Philosophy 3(1), 2002: 102-117. [Pdf-file]

Specifying Speciesism’. Environmental Values 11(1), 2002: 63-74. [Pdf-file]

‘Equality Does Not Entail Equality Across Species’. Environmental Ethics 24 (Winter), 2002: 339-352. [Pdf-file]

‘Is Singer’s Ethics Speciesist?’ Environmental Values 12(1), 2003: 91-106. [Pdf-file]

Respect for Persons, Respect for Integrity. Remarks for the Conceptualization of Integrity in Social Ethics’. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 8(2), 2005: 231-242. [Pdf-file]

‘A Sketch of Equal Human Value’. SATS – Nordic Journal of Philosophy 8(1), 2007: 97-112. [Pdf-file]

‘Signal, Definition, Function, Constitution or What? A Question about the Relation between Value and Reason-Giving in the Buck-Passing Account of Value’. In Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson, Jonas Josefsson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen (ed.), Hommage ā Wlodek. Lund: Department of Philosophy, 2007. (www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek).

‘Consequentialism, Channels, Containers, and Contrary-to-Fact Equal Value’. Paper to ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue), Eighth World Congress China, July 2-7, 2010.  

‘Love and Equal Value’, Essays in Philosophy, Special Issue: Love and Reasons, ed. Constantine Sandis, Vol. 12(1), 2011: 112-129.  [Pdf-file]

 

Coming works

‘L'obscurité, face cachée de la vie morale’,  La revue Raison publique, automne 2011.

‘One Should - but Should I? An argument for existentialism’. Paper presented at the conference Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: How Do They Relate - Celebrating the 10 Year Anniversary of the Journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Amsterdam, March 19 & 20, 2008. (Work in progress).

Worth Loving. An Essay on Equal, Inherent Human Value and Reflective Practice. (Work in progress.)

 

Externally financed research

2000-2003 - Means from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled Etiska perspektiv och integritet i hållbart nyttjande av naturresurser /Ethical Perspectives and Integrity in Substainable Use of Natural Resources.

2001/2002 – Means from the Swedish Research Council and the Faculty for Education, Umeå University, for a project on teaching and ethics, Läraren som fostrare /The Teacher as a Moral Educator.

2001 (autumn) - Means from The Mountain Mistra Programme to write a report on environmental ethics Om relevansen av miljöetisk forskning för FjällMistra /The Relevance of Environmental Ethics to the Mountain Mistra Programme).

2004-2006 - Means from the Swedish Research Council and the Faculty for Education, Umeå University, for a project on teaching and ethics, Love as the Core Value in Teachers' Professional Ethics and Moral Education.

 

Organizer of conferences

Co-organizer of the conference Förintelsen: Vittnesmål – Förståelse – Lärdomar (The Holocaust: Testimonies – Understandings – Lessons). Umeå University, March 23-25, 1998.

Co-organizer of the conference Toward a Sustainable Society in the New Millenium. Umeå University, June 10-12, 1999.

 

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