Jesse Tomalty

Research

My research focuses on normative and conceptual issues related to global justice and human rights. I have written articles and chapters on topics including socio-economic human rights, global poverty, the ethics of immigration, and labour rights.  I am currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human Rights along with Kerri Woods (Leeds).

Publications

Scholarly articles/chapters:

• 'Social Rights at Work', in Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights', edited by Kimberley Brownlee, David Jenkins, and Adam Neal (Oxford University Press, 2022). 

• 'Religious Discrimination at the Border', Ethical Perspectives, (2021).

• 'The Link between Poverty and Human Rights', in The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice, edited by Thom Brooks (Oxford University Press, 2020).

• 'Justifying International Legal Human Rights', Ethics & International Affairs, (2017).

• 'Remedial Responsibility for Global Poverty: Justice or Humanity?', Journal of Applied Philosophy, (2017). 

• 'Human Rights and the Broken World', Philosophy and Public Issues, 4.2 (2014).

• 'The Force of the Claimability Objection to Socio-economic Human Rights', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 44.1 (2014). 

• 'On the Political Dimension of Human Rights: A Reply to Barry and Southwood', Ethics & International Affairs, 25.3, online only, (2012). 

Book Reviews

• Review of Human Rights: Moral or Political? Edited by Adam Etinson, Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming).

• Review of Kimberley Brownlee's  Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms, Ethics, 132.1 (2021).

• Review of Joshua Cohen's The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 10.4 (2013) .

Popular media

• 'Is There A Human Right to Internet Access?', Philosophy Now 118 (2017).

Teaching

In the autumn of 2023, I am teaching FIL321: Research Methods.

In recent years, I have also taught the following courses at the University of Bergen: 

• FIL128/228/328: Moral Philosophy

• FIL116: Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy

• FIL249/349: Political Philosophy

• EXPHIL-HFSEM: Examen Philosophicum 

Admin and Service

Teaching Coordinator, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, 2021-present

Practical Philosophy Research Group Coordinator, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, 2019-present

Reviews Editor, Res Publica: A journal of legal, moral, and social philosophy, 2016-present

Co-chair, Bergen Network for Women in Philosophy, University of Bergen, 2017-2019

Equality Committee Representative, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2013-2015