Doctoral projects

Johan Elfström

John Rawls’ idea of a public reason is a theory about democratic decision making. This thesis tests the sustainability of some of the arguments against Rawls’ theory, and gives a constructive proposal for a further development of the theory of public reason.

Emma Jakobsson

This project analyses various interpretations of constructivism and their relation to normative ethics and meta-ethics. One form of Kantian constructivism, one of Humean constructivism, and one ethical theory based on social constructivism are compared with the aim of further developing a constructivist theory within ethics.

Martin Langby

The thesis is a critical review of contemporary Christian feminist theology. The study focuses on how various interpretations of subjectivity, vulnerability and relationality influence feminist understandings of liberation.

Xin Mao

The project Transnational Human Rights Obligations: its agency, justification and distribution aims to offer a new understanding of transnational human rights obligations. Social production as understood within Marxist theory is related to human rights and global capitalism.

Ute Steyer

Doubt, uncertainty, and ambiguity in rabbinic literature: Law meets messy human reality. This project addresses the question of what significance rabbinic sources attach to the ambivalence of Jewish law. Perspectives from the rabbinic sources are related to contemporary philosophical discussions on law and morality.