Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen

Short presentation

associate professor of philosophy, currently workiong at philosophy and the institute of food and resource economics.

Have worked with a broad range of topics within practical philosophy (moral theory, political philosophy, bioethics, business ethics/CSR and legal philosophy) with a main interest in questions concerning legittimacy under considtions of reasonalbe pluralism and disagreement. Recently been working on questions in the intersection between health science and philosophy, e.g. the question of personal responsibility for health.

Impact

At the Faculty of Humanities my research is used as an example of the impact the humanities researchers have on society. 
Read the case: Practical philosophy enriches health debate

Primary fields of research

Political philosophy, applied ethics, moral philosophy

Current research

Currently working on a string of papers related to the Copenhagen university's interdisciplinary 2016-projects, GO - Governing Obesity and Globl Genes, Local Concerns. Pursues research into the relation and friction between public reason liberalism and public health

CV

Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen, (born 1968), cand. phil,, PhD, associate professor in applied philosophy, Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication (MEF) Faculty of the Humanities and Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Faculty of Science,

Cand. phil Copenhagen University 1999.

Ph.D. (philosophy) Copenhagen University 2004.

• Associate Professor in applied philosophy, Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication (MEF) Faculty of the Humanities (since 2014)
• From 2009-2014 various post doc positions at Department of Media, Cognition and Communication and at Department of Food and Resource Economics, Copenhagen University: CESEM (Center for the Studies of Equality and Multiculturalism), UNIK – Food, Pharma and Fitness and the 2016-projects Go – Governing Obesity and Local Genes, Local Concerns
  • Referee for the journals Journal of Philosophy and Medicine; Res Publica; Philosophical Papers; Journal of Public Health Ethics; Synthese and others.
  • BA in psychology, Roskilde University (1997)
  • Copenhagen University’s Gold Medal Award for MA thesis, 1999

• . Extensive experience with and education in project management, especially in a cross-disciplinary context

Philosophy and health; legitimacy, especially in liberal political theory; responsibility; applied philosophy.

• Member of several international networks: association for Applied Philosophy (hosts their annual conference in Copenhagen summer 2017); Nordic Network for Political Philosophy and others. Have worked with several international anthologies both as editor and contributor.

Co-supervision of Ph.D. student, 2016-project Global Genes, Local Concerns. Several MA-theses.

Fields of interest

Pol. phil, applied ethics , moral philosophy.

I have a special interest in the relation between state and individual and politics and morality broadly construed.

Knowledge of languages

Danish and english

Teaching

Practical Philosophy, boradly construed.

Praktisk filosofi bredt forstået.

More specifically: Political philosophy (especially contemporary theories), philosophy and health, especially public health ethics, legitimacy, distributive theories, individual liberty, consent, applied philosoph/ethics, CSR/business ethics, organizational philosophy and theory, legal philosophy, normative ethics.