I am Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Copenhagen, having previously taught at the University of Edinburgh (where I received my PhD in 2008), the University of Stirling, University College Dublin and the University of Duisburg-Essen (where I received my Habilitation in 2014). I work mainly in ethics, bioethics and the philosophy of action. Address: University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK-1014 Copenhagen. Email: the four letters of my first name at sund dot ku dot dk Recent Books (older books here) 2016: Drones and Responsibility. Routledge (co-edited with Filippo Santoni). 2015: Enhancement der Moral. Mentis (co-edited with Raphael van Riel & Jan Schildmann). 2014: Ethics without Intention. Bloomsbury. 2013: Mindlessness. Cambridge Scholars. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2016: IVF, same-sex couples and the value of biological ties. Journal of Medical Ethics 42 (12): 784-787. 2015: Broadening the Future of Value Account of the Wrongness of Killing. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 18 (4): 587-590. 2014: Fathers and Abortion. The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy 39 (4): 444-458. 2013: Withdrawing artificial nutrition and patients' interests. Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (9): 555-556. 2013: Embryo Loss and Double Effect. Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (8): 537-540. 2011: Frankfurt versus Frankfurt: a new anti-causalist dawn. Philosophical Explorations 14 (1): 117-131. Other Academic Articles 2015: Non Uccidere? Le Intenzioni e la Dottrina del Doppio Effetto. AREL La Rivista 2015/1: 274-277. Reviews of my books Enhancement der Moral has been reviewed in: Frankfurter Allgemeine. Ethics without Intention has been reviewed in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Mindlessness has been reviewed in: Philosophical Psychology; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Cygne Noir. Talks (selection) 2016: Gegen bionormative Familienkonzeptionen. Fachtagung Kind und Moral (Technische Universität Chemnitz). 2016: Drones and the Threshold for Waging War. 3rd Meeting of the Nordic War Network (Aarhus University). 2016: Dying Earlier, Dying Right. Cogita (University of Copenhagen). 2016: La fecondazione assistita e il valore dei legami biologici. Etica e Politica (University of Ferrara). 2016: IVF, same-sex couples and the value of biological ties. ETMP Workshop (University College Dublin). 2016: IVF-with-ROPA and the value of biological ties. Aarhus University. 2016: IVF, same-sex couples and the value of biological ties. KTH Stockholm. 2015: Varieties of Action and Responsibility: Lessons from Parks’ Somnambulistic Killing. 2015 OZSW Conference (Free University of Amsterdam, together with Filippo Santoni de Sio). 2015: Implicit Bias and Indifference. Reasons and the Psychology of Human Agents Workshop (University of Copenhagen). 2015: Responsibility, Technology and Tolerance Thresholds. Eindhoven University. 2015: Indifference. University of Copenhagen (Department of Philosophy). 2015: The Value of Indifference. University of Lund. 2015: Responsibility, Technology and Tolerance Thresholds. Delft University of Technology. 2015: Kamm, Kant and Double Effect. Roskilde University. 2015: Responsibility, Technology and Tolerance Thresholds. Aarhus University. 2015: Sexual Rights? University of Copenhagen (Department of Public Health). 2015: Zustimmung als Unterlassung. Universität Konstanz. 2014: Should we be afraid of robots? Lessons from the theory of action and responsibility. 2014 OZSW Conference (University of Nijmegen; together with Filippo Santoni de Sio). 2014: Eight Arguments against Double Effect. Trinity College Dublin. 2014: Eight Arguments against Double Effect. XXIII. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie (Universität Münster). 2014: Double Effect and Terror Bombing. SIFA2014 Conference (University of L’Aquila). 2014: Consent, opt-out and organ donation. Eindhoven University. 2014: Zustimmung in der Organspende-Debatte. Habilitationskolloquium (Universität Duisburg-Essen). 2014: Sind Absichten Moralisch Neutral? 9. Gummersbacher Kolloquium. 2014: Autonome Waffensysteme: Wessen Verantwortung? Rüsten für die Zukunft? (Evangelische Akademie Loccum). 2014: Consent ain’t Anything. Analytics Bioethics in Europe Conference (Ghent University). 2014: The fear of automation and the ideal of direct control. Roboethics in Film (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, together with Filippo Santoni de Sio). 2014: Willensfreiheit, Determinismus und Verantwortung. LLL Verein (Universität Duisburg-Essen). 2013: Opt-Out and Implicit Consent. Association for Legal and Social Philosophy 2013 Annual Conference (University of Stirling). 2013: Particularism and Practical Reason: Replying to Albertzart. Particularism Workshop (Universität Duisburg-Essen). 2013: Enhancement, the Intellectualist Bias and Moral Agency. Neurointerventions and the Law workshop (Universität Hamburg). 2013: Enhancement, the Intellectualist Bias and Moral Agency. Neuroenhancement and Ethics conference (Ruhr Universität Bochum). 2012: Double Effect and Terror Bombing. Fourth Annual Dutch Conference on Practical Philosophy (Eindhoven University). 2012: The Trolley Problem and the Self-Sacrifice Trilemma. The Scope and Limits of Experimental Ethics workshop (Universität Konstanz). 2012: Double Effect and Terror Bombing. GAP.8 Kongress (Universität Konstanz). 2012: Mindlessness: all the things we do without thinking. Control and the Absent Mind conference (Universität Duisburg-Essen). 2012: Ethik ohne Absicht und das Prinzip der Doppelwirkung. Mittelbaukolloquium (Universität Duisburg-Essen). 2011: Self-Sacrifice and theTrolley Problem. European Workshop on Experimental Philosophy (Eindhoven University). 2011: Reply to Colin Allen’s Animal Cognition and the limits of experimental methods. Animal Cognition Workshop (Ruhr Universität Bochum). 2010: Nudges and Priming. Gummersbacher Kolloquium (Theodor-Heuss Akademie). 2010: Action vs. Freedom. Philosophiches Kolloquium (Universität Duisburg-Essen). 2010: Nudges and Priming. Green Nudges Conference (Manchester University). 2010: Online and Digital Agency. IDIS 2010 Conference (Rome). 2009: Knowing Future Contingents. Relativism Conference (University College Dublin). 2007: Bratman Refuted. OpenMinds2007 Graduate Conference (Manchester University). 2007: Automatic Actions and Davidsonian Rationalization. Graduate Conference (Durham University). 2006: Rationalizing Automaticity. OpenMinds2006 Graduate Conference (Manchester University). 2005: Alienation: On Treating Oneself as an Object. Sussex Graduate Conference (Sussex University). 2005: Alienation and Self-Objectification. SEP/FEP Joint Conference (Reading University). 2005: On Treating Oneself as an Object. Brave NewWorld 2005 (Manchester University). 2005: Rationality and Automaticity. Ireland Postgraduate Philosophy Conference (Trinity College Dublin). 2005: Action, Explanation, and Impotence. SPPA Seminar Day (Stirling University). 2004: Reply to Markus Schlosser's The Agent as Cause. SPPA Seminar Day (Glasgow University). Teaching (evaluations available here) 2016-2017: ‘Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine’, undergraduate course, University of Copenhagen (course organizer, delivered all 16 lectures). 2015-2016: ‘Ethics and Philosophy of Technology’, undergraduate course, University of Copenhagen (course organizer, delivered 12 lectures). 2015-2016: ‘Introduction to STS’, graduate course, University of Copenhagen (delivered 2 lectures). 2015-2016: ‘Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine’, undergraduate course, University of Copenhagen (course organizer, delivered 12 lectures). 2014-2015: ‘Ethics of Medical Technology’, undergraduate course, University of Copenhagen (eight lectures delivered). 2014-2015: ‘Medical Ethics’, undergraduate course, University of Copenhagen (eight lectures delivered). 2014-2015: ‘Autonome Maschinen?’, graduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2013-2014: ‘Einführung in die Ethik Vorlesung’, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2013-2014: ‘The Ethics and Politics of Prostitution and Body Parts’, graduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2013-2014: ‘Nikomachische Ethik’, graduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2013-2014: ‘The Ethics of Voting’, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2012-2013: ‘Philosophische Anthropologie Vorlesung’, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2012-2013: ‘Philosophie: Schreiben und Presentieren‘, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2012-2013: ‘Neuroenhancement: Moral Issues‘, graduate course, Ruhr Universität Bochum (course co-organizer, delivered one lecture). 2012-2013: 'Kants Ethik', undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2011-2012: ‘Einführung in die Ethik Vorlesung’, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2011-2012: ‘Gewohnheiten und Automatische Handlungen in Philosophie und Psychologie’, graduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2011-2012: ‘Doppelwirkung’, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2011-2012: ‘Rechtsphilosophie’, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2010-2011: ‘Willensfreiheit’, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2010-2011: `Marx`, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2010-2011: ‘Wäre es besser, nicht gewesen zu sein?’, graduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer; delivered all lectures). 2010-2011: `Handlungstheorie` graduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer; delivered all lectures). 2009-2010: 'Abortion and the Concept of the Person', undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2009-2010: ‘Animal Ethics’, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2009-2010: ‘Rawls’s Theory of Justice’, undergraduate course, Universität Duisburg-Essen (course organizer, delivered all lectures). 2008–2009: ‘MA Advanced Readings in Analytic Philosophy’, graduate course, University College Dublin (course organizer; delivered all lectures). 2008–2009: ‘Introduction to the Problems of Philosophy’, 1st year Course, University College Dublin (course organizer; delivered all lectures). 2008–2009: ‘Knowledge & Reality’, 3rd year Course, University College Dublin (course organizer; delivered all lectures). 2007-2008: ‘Introduction to Philosophy’ tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2007-2008: ‘Moral Philosophy’ tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2007-2008: ‘History of Modern Philosophy’ (honours) tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2007-2008: ‘From Plato to Existentialism’ seminar, University of Stirling. 2007-2008: ‘Morality & Metaphysics’ seminar, University of Stirling. 2006-2007: ‘Introduction to Philosophy’ tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2006-2007: ‘Philosophy of Mind and Language’ (honours) tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2006-2007: ‘What does it all mean?’ seminar, University of Stirling. 2006-2007: ‘Introduction to Moral Philosophy’ seminar, University of Stirling. 2005-2006: ‘Introduction to Philosophy’ tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2005-2006: ‘Moral Philosophy’ tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2005-2006: ‘History of Modern Philosophy’ (honours) tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2004-2005: ‘Introduction to Philosophy’ tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2004-2005: ‘Moral Philosophy’ tutorial, University of Edinburgh. 2003-2004: ‘Introduction to Philosophy’ tutorial, University of Edinburgh. More Info Information on projects and events organized here. And here is my Google Scholar page with citations etc. Book Reviews I have commissioned at Ethical Theory and Moral Practice as Reviews Editor Witt, K. 2017. Tim Lewens, The Biological Foundations of Bioethics. Ethic Theory Moral Prac 20: 205. |