Biography
I was born in Oslo in 1976. During the first twenty years of mye life I spent most of my time either playing (I was a goalkeeper) or watching football. In this period I was a hard core supporter of Liverpool, but I am no longer a big fan. My interest in football gradually declined when I began my studies at the University of Tromsø in 1996. I don't know what happened, but football just wasn't interesting anymore (and it still isn't very interesting). In Tromsø I studied sociology and an introductory course in philosophy (examen philosophicum). I then moved to Bergen where I continued my undergraduate studies in philosophy. But I wanted to return to Oslo, and in 2000 I finished my undergraduate studies at the University of Oslo.
I graduated with a Cand.Philol degree (MA) in philosophy in 2003. My thesis was on Spinoza and environmental ethics, where I argued that his ethical thinking could be a source of inspiration for a nonanthropocentric approach to environmental ethics. In 2005 I got funding for a PhD project on the ethics of forgiveness. I defended my dissertation in 2009, and the papers from the dissertation have all been published (see Publications).
In 2010 I joined the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen as an associate professor. My current research is focused on various questions in moral philosophy and moral psychology. I am currently writing a book on gratitude in Norwegian, and a book in English on moralism.